BABYMONSTER is headed to the desert. YG Entertainment’s seven-member girl group will perform at the 2027 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, becoming the first fifth-generation K-pop group to take the festival’s stage, Coachella and YG Entertainment announced on November 11.
The group is set to play on April 11 and 18, 2027, the Sundays of the festival’s two weekends, at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The festival runs April 9-11 and April 16-18, 2027. Its 2027 lineup was announced on November 10, headlined by Dua Lipa, Tame Impala, and SZA, with Daddy Yankee taking the desert slot and Madonna set for the dance tent on Friday. BABYMONSTER is listed among the Sunday acts alongside Don Toliver, Becky G, Empire of the Sun, and Tove Lo.
Korean outlets OSEN and Ilgan Sports both reported the booking on November 11, confirming that the group will appear on both Sundays of the festival. The announcement makes BABYMONSTER the first act of K-pop’s fifth generation — the wave of groups that debuted from 2023 onward — to be named to a Coachella lineup.
The booking continues a YG Entertainment lineage at the festival. BLACKPINK, the group’s label seniors, first performed at Coachella in 2019 and returned in 2023 as the first K-pop act ever to headline the festival. BABYMONSTER is the first girl group YG has launched in seven years since BLACKPINK, and the company has positioned the seven-member act as the successor to a line that runs from 2NE1 through BLACKPINK. Now, roughly three years after its own debut, BABYMONSTER follows its seniors onto the same stage.
BABYMONSTER — Ruka, Pharita, Asa, Ahyeon, Rami, Rora, and Chiquita — debuted as a seven-member group on April 1, 2024, with the EP Babymons7er. The group built its name on strong live vocals and rap, the quality that Korean coverage of the Coachella booking singles out as the reason the invitation came. Its breakout track “SHEESH” spent 14 weeks on the Billboard Global 200, its first full album DRIP charted on the Billboard 200 in 2024, and its second EP WE GO UP topped the iTunes Worldwide Album Chart. A third EP, CHOOM, followed on May 4, 2026. Often described as the new generation of BLACKPINK, the group has carried YG’s confident girl-crush sound with hip-hop influences since its debut, a style built on pop, rap, hip-hop, and R&B.
Coachella, first held in 1999, is widely regarded as the world’s largest music festival and a dream stage for performers. The group named it as a goal in interviews around its debut, and Korean reports of the booking describe it as the realization of a wish held by fans around the world since the group first appeared.
The festival dates land in the middle of a rapid climb in the group’s live career. BABYMONSTER completed its first world tour, Hello Monsters, in 2025, then launched its second, the 2026-27 BABYMONSTER WORLD TOUR [CHOOM], with three Seoul shows from June 26 to 28, 2026, at the Jamsil Indoor Stadium, opening with “WE GO UP” as a statement that the group intended to aim higher on its second tour. The tour spans five continents, 18 cities, and 31 shows across Asia, Oceania, South America, North America, and Europe, and in December the group plays Australia and New Zealand for the first time, with dates in Auckland on December 8, Melbourne on December 11, and Sydney on December 13.
With the Coachella dates now set, the group heads into 2027 with its biggest stages yet ahead of it. The world tour continues through Asia and Oceania in the coming months, with Hong Kong shows scheduled for January 8-10, 2027, at AsiaWorld-Arena, before the group returns to the United States for the two April Sundays in Indio.
