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Lollapalooza is back for another stellar year of festivities, fun and music.

As always, the Chicago-based romp is set to take place at the iconic Grant Park for four days from July 30 through Aug. 2. This year’s headliners are pretty major with appearances from Brat babe Charli xcx, Lorde and BLACKPINK’s Jennie. Other big names included beside the trio mentioned include Tate McRae, The Smashing Pumpkins, The xx, 2026 Grammy winner Olivia Dean and John Summit. Presale for ticketing began Thursday, March 19, 2026, 10:00 a.m. CT, while general sale began an hour later the same day on the festival’s website.

Beyond the standout headliners, you’ve got acts like Lil Uzi Vert, Turnstile, Sombr, The Neighbourhood, Beabadoobee, Ethel Cain, the Chainsmokers, Leon Thomas, Muna, Zara Larsson, Geese, Freddie Gibbs, Wet Leg, Blood Orange, Suki Waterhouse, among others. Notably, the lineup includes a ton of K-pop acts including I-dle and Aespa.

For the first time, the festival announced “premium hospitality experiences” for guests which will include Northside Suites, Suites at Perry’s and the Speakeasy Lounge, private lounges, curated dining options and VIP amenities, sweetening the deal for festivalgoers. If you’re looking to buy a pass for the day or for all four, we’ll be sharing some affordable ticketing options that you can shop below, proving you don’t have to spend a fortune to have fun.

Where to Buy Affordable Tickets Lollapalooza 2026

AFFORDABLE PRICES

StubHub

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As of now, StubHub has ticketing for all days starting as low as $292 for general admission, which is pretty great considering how in-demand this year’s festival has been since the lineup dropped. While searching for ticketing on third-party sites can be a bit daunting, however, StubHub’s FanProtect Guarantee keeps your purchase protected. This initiative protects fan’s purchases by ensuring valid tickets or your money back. Plus, if your event is canceled and not rescheduled, you will receive a credit worth 120% of the amount you paid for the impacted event, or the option of a cash refund.

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Vivid Seats

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Vivid Seats has pricing for GA at $281, the lowest pricing we’ve seen thus far. The site also features an easy-to-navigate lineup info and parking passes, available for $136 and up, depending on the day, keeping the average ticket searcher well-informed and ready for their festival experience. Right now, you can use promo code BB30 to snag $30 off your purchase. The ticketing service offers a 100% Buyer Guarantee, which ensures your transaction will be secure, that your tickets will be delivered before the event, and that those tickets will be valid and authentic.

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SeatGeek

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SeatGeek has more low pricing on GA, starting at $302. To bump that pricing down further, you can use promo code BILLBOARD10 at checkout to receive $10 off your purchase. Like the other sites we mentioned, SeatGeek has an excellent Buyer Guarantee that ensures smooth ticket purchases every time.

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TicketNetwork

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We’ve got even more chances to save money, this time with TicketNetwork. As far as Lollapalooza is concerned, we’ve seen ticketing for pricing as low as $295, another great price considering how in-demand the festival is. You can use code BILLBOARD300 at checkout to save $300 off orders of $1,000, and BILLBOARD150 to save $150 off orders of $500. This should hopefully make ticketing even more accessible for those looking to save some coin.

If you’re tight on money at the moment but you really want to get your tickets secured, we don’t blame you. Thankfully, TicketNetwork offers a buy now pay later option with Affirm, giving you flexible spending options on top of our special code. Plus, the website includes all-in pricing that lets you see exactly what you’ll be paying upfront (fees included).

GREAT PRICES

Gametime

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Given how in demand the tour is for some venues, pricing can be pretty crazy. Thankfully, Gametime has a bunch of passes left for in-demand days for as low as $286 for GA up to just $297 with no GA spots listed for $300 or above for the moment. Gametime guarantees the lowest prices, event cancellation protection, job loss assurance and on-time ticket delivery for a smooth ticket-buying experience every time, no matter the occasion.

Lollapalooza 2026 Lineup

BTS is giving fans permission to dance at the band’s first concert in years — so long as they do it safely.

In posts on Weverse on Thursday (March 19), both RM and Jin reminded ARMY to stay alert and compliant with safety precautions ahead of the group’s highly anticipated comeback concert at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul. “Everyone in ARMY! We are also very excited to meet you,” wrote RM, according to Weverse’s English translation. “As it is a gathering place for many people, please make sure that everyone can enjoy the performance safely and joyfully.”

“Please follow the guidance of the field staff and safety personnel on the day and show an orderly appearance,” he continued. “I think a better performance can be completed only when there is order and consideration made by each ARMY. I would like to say thank you so much to the police officers who are working hard for safety, as well as to the fire department, the government and local governments.”

On his page, Jin wrote, “There’s only one day left until our comeback.”

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to greet you all together in a meaningful place, and I want to say thank you so much to those who helped and everyone who understood,” he continued before echoing RM’s plea. “We’ll do our best to show great performances! If you’re watching on the spot, please pay attention to your safety!”

The members’ messages come one day after Seoul raised its terror alert by one step, elevating it to the second-lowest level on a four-step scale, according to The Guardian. The city expects up to 260,000 people to crowd the surrounding area of BTS’ free performance at Gwanghwamun Square on Saturday (March 21), which will celebrate new album ARIRANG dropping the day prior.

As previously reported by Billboard Korea, Seoul will position 6,500 police officers, 70 riot control units and 5,400 pieces of specialized equipment on the scene on the day of the show.

BTS hasn’t performed as a group since October 2022, when the septet performed in Busan as part of South Korea’s bid to host the World Expo in 2023. Shortly afterward, the members staggered their enlistments in the military to carry out their mandatory service periods while working on solo projects as well.

After the comeback show in Seoul — which will be livestreamed on Netflix for ARMY who can’t attend in person — the Bangtan Boys will travel to New York City to perform and answer fan questions as part of a Spotify event on March 23. Two days later, the bandmates will appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for their first late-night interview as a group since completing their time in the military. They’ll also perform songs from ARIRANG on back-to-back episodes of the program.

For Lea Michele, the current Broadway revival of Chess — the beloved but short-lived 1988 musical by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and Tim Rice that’s since become a cult favorite among musical theater fans — is a full-circle, and pivotal, career moment. Chess is currently playing at the Imperial Theatre, where she made her own Broadway debut as Young Cosette in Les Misérables at age 8. It’s her first big Broadway role since her monumental performance as Fanny Brice in the 2022 revival of Funny Girl.

And as Florence — a brilliant chess strategist caught in a love triangle between tormented American and Russian champions (played by Aaron Tveit and Nicholas Christopher, respectively) — Michele gets to shine in a role that runs the dramatic and vocal gamut, showing just how far she’s come since playing Rachel Berry on Glee. Florence is a woman who “lives internally, and occasionally she has these emotional moments where you get a glimpse into what she’s feeling,” Michele tells Billboard. One of those moments: “Nobody’s Side,” Michele’s first big solo that brings down the house each night.

For the actress, it’s a major moment to connect with audience members on an individual level — so while it’s a vocal showpiece, Michele was adamant to approach it grounded in character. “I’m not really impressed by tricks; I think there’s a fine line between showing off and truth,” she says. “What I care most about in that moment is that you hear in my voice the message I’m trying to deliver: that there’s no one you can trust except for yourself. And Florence is in it for herself, and it is a game of one.”

This spring, the Chess 2025 Broadway cast recording will be released digitally on Ghostlight Records, and today Billboard premieres the first taste of the album with single “Nobody’s Side (Chess The Musical),” which will be available on DSPs at noon ET today (March 19).

Michele spoke about the thrill of performing it, the leading Chess ladies who’ve inspired her and what it’s like to have an ABBA songwriter as a rehearsal pianist.

“Nobody’s Side” feels like an 11 o’clock number — but it actually occurs fairly early on in the show, during Act One, and is your first big solo. How do you approach it both technically and as an actor?

To have this moment so early on really helps me to sort of set the pace and the tone and the energy for my entire performance. I really enjoy getting to do it as early as I do every night. This is the most challenging vocal show I’ve done in my life — and I just played Fanny Brice so that’s saying a lot! There’s no moment to really stop and feel tired or any kind of fatigue — you just have to let go and go on this vocal extravaganza rollercoaster. And “Nobody’s Side” is like the big drop at the top of the rollercoaster ride. It’s this amazing launching pad.

There’s a visceral feeling in the theater that a large portion of the audience is anticipating this song coming and how big a deal it is. Can you feel that onstage?

I definitely see them being like, “Oh wow, we’re doing this, she’s looking at me, she’s saying these words to me,” and I see them suddenly go from watching the show to really deeply connecting and engaging with who Florence is. Getting to sing “Don’t Rain on My Parade” [in Funny Girl] was an unbelievable out-of-body experience every night but this is empowering in a different, equally wonderful way. For so many reasons — for the words, what I have to do vocally — to have that moment with the audience and lock eyes and hands metaphorically, it’s so exciting.

You had the unique experience of getting to work with three living music legends on this show: Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA and Tim Rice. What was that like?

When we did our sitzprobe [the rehearsal where the cast sings with the orchestra for the first time], I got to sit by a piano with Benny and Björn playing it for me, hearing their thoughts on the parts of the show that mean so much to them. I think of them writing this music — and I get to bring it to life each night! I can’t believe I get to sing Tim Rice’s music. I think I was born to sing Tim Rice’s songs — this is the type of music I believe I was vocally born to sing. I’ve had many opportunities to collaborate with him on Florence, and as long as I’m making him proud I think I’m doing something right.

You are the latest in a line of iconic Broadway women who have played Florence. Have you heard any of their takes on this song, or their advice on the role in general?

Obviously Idina [Menzel] inspired me to do this part. I’ve been friends with Idina for many years and her version from the London concert [production] I first listened to on a very late night on a two show day of Funny Girl. And Michael Mayer [that show and Chess’ director] said, “If you resonate with this song, you’re gonna want to play this character,” and he was right. I listened to it in my kitchen in the dark at midnight and I could have said yes right then and there, and that was really thanks to Idina. She’s such an icon.

And funny enough, in rehearsal I sang “Nobody’s Side” for the first time back in September — and this isn’t a song I’d sung so many times throughout my life — and the first time I ever played it in front of our cast, I walked out of the room and I started to cry. And standing right in front of me was Judy Kuhn, who originated Florence on Broadway. I swear to God my entire body went numb, it was like I saw a ghost. I could cry thinking about it.

How different did it feel performing this in the studio for the cast recording instead of for a live theater audience?

I was certainly very concerned that with “Nobody’s Side” in particular I wouldn’t feel the same energy as I do every night — but I have to say I f–king loved it. I will cry right now – recording “Nobody’s Side” in the studio was one of the most incredible moments of my life professionally. Every night I have our incredible ensemble behind me, and I think of them like our heartbeat, our pulse, and it fuels me every night — but in the studio we were standing in a circle, and I got to see everyone, and that was just so exciting. Something just came over me in the booth and I felt the same way I do on the stage every night but maybe even more excited, locking eyes with my castmates.

I love “Nobody’s Side” more than any other song I’ve sung. When I walked offstage after Funny Girl, I was so worried I wouldn’t find a show again that I’d connect with so deeply, and I really needed a new anthem — and I heard this song and thought, “This is my new anthem.” And in the studio I was so grateful that everything aligned, and for this to now be a new generation’s recording of Chess? I was just so so happy that day. It was f–king thrilling.

Billboard premieres Lea Michele’s recording of “Nobody’s Side” here.