Coldplay cemented their status as one of the greatest live acts of their generation with a historic headline performance at the Glastonbury Festival 2024.
The British band, led by Chris Martin, became the first act to headline the iconic festival five times, surpassing the previous record held by The Cure.
The band’s Saturday night set on the Pyramid Stage was a triumphant return to Worthy Farm, having last performed there in 2016.
Coldplay delivered a career-spanning setlist that had the massive crowd singing and dancing along to fan favorites like “Yellow,” “Viva la Vida,” and “Paradise”Â
Coldplay Glastonbury 2024 Setlist
- Forever Held
- Yellow
- Music of the Spheres (partial)
- Higher Power
- Adventure of a Lifetime
- Paradise (with Victoria Canal; extended intro and outro)
- The Scientist (with excerpt of “Oceans” in intro, and backwards outro)
- Clocks
- Hymn for the Weekend
- Charlie Brown
- Viva la Vida (with Baltic String Orchestra)
- We Pray (with Little Simz; live debut; with Elyanna and Baltic String Orchestra)
- Arabesque (with Femi Kuti; tour debut; with Elyanna; Laura Rivers’ “That’s Alright” by HÃ¥kan Hellström edit intro)
- Violet Hill (with Laura Mvula; sung by choir, led by Laura Mvula and accompanied by Jonny Buckland)
- Infinity Sign (shortened; with excerpts of “Music of the Spheres II” and “Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall”)
- Something Just Like This (The Chainsmokers cover; first verse performed in sign language; outro remixed with Martin Garrix‘s “Breakaway”)
- My Universe (with projections of BTS on the sides of the Pyramid)
- A Sky Full of Stars (restarted; asks audience to put phones away for this song)
Encore:
- Sunrise (with Louis Armstrong’s spoken intro speech to “What a Wonderful World”)
- Sparks (on B-Stage)
- The Jumbotron Song (on B-Stage; Chris only; with appearances from Michael Eavis and Michael J. Fox on the screen)
- Humankind (with Michael J. Fox; + Vula Malinga and all prior guests)
- Fix You (with Michael J. Fox; with excerpts of “Midnight”, extended outro with reprise of chorus)
- feelslikeimfallinginlove (extended intro)
