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Billie Eilish will top the bill at next year’s Glastonbury Festival to become the event’s youngest ever solo headliner.<\/p>\n
Eilish will perform on the legendary Pyramid Stage on the Friday evening of the festival<\/a><\/strong> next June.<\/p>\n The 19-year-old<\/a><\/strong> hinted only hours before the announcement that she had been tapped up to play the event, posting a picture on her Instagram stories of her wearing a Glastonbury hoodie with the caption “2022”.<\/p>\n Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis said: “We couldn’t be happier to announce that the wondrous Billie Eilish is headlining the Pyramid on the Friday at next year’s Glastonbury Festival, becoming the youngest solo headliner in our history.<\/p>\n “This feels like the perfect way for us to return and I cannot wait!”<\/p>\n She performed at the festival in 2019 on The Other Stage, belting out hits such as Bad Guy and You Should See Me In A Crown, but next year will mark Eilish’s first headline slot in the UK.<\/p>\n Glastonbury was due to celebrate its 50th birthday in 2020, but as with most other large scale events, it was cancelled as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Sir Paul McCartney had been due to headline, with Diana Ross in the Sunday legends slot.<\/p>\n It was also axed this year and turned into a virtual event<\/a><\/strong>, with the likes of Coldplay, Damon Albarn and Wolf Alice all performing on the stream.<\/p>\n