Lollapalooza Chile

Lollapalooza Chile is the Chilean edition of the popular music festival Lollapalooza (/ˌlɒləpəˈluːzə/). It was the first Lollapalooza event to be held outside the United States and has taken place in Santiago, Chile since 2011.
The festival debuted in April 2011 at Santiago’s O'Higgins Park, featuring alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, and hip-hop artists from both Chile and abroad. Following its success, Lollapalooza Brazil was launched in São Paulo in 2012.
Lollapalooza Chile is managed by the Chilean production company Lotus Productions in partnership with Lollapalooza founder and Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell. The event attracted approximately 100,000 attendees in its first edition and grew to 115,000 in 2012.
Its attendance record was set in 2022, when 225,000 people attended the event as it was held at Cerrillos' Parque Bicentenario for the first time.
Lollapalooza Chile has featured a wide range of international artists, including The Killers, Jane's Addiction, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar, Björk, Lana del Rey, Deftones, Fatboy Slim, Thirty Seconds to Mars, The Flaming Lips, Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters, MGMT, Tinie Tempah, Sublime with Rome, Foster the People, Calvin Harris and Armin Van Buuren. The 2013 lineup included The Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, Keane, Deadmau5, A Perfect Circle, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, and many others.
Moreover, the festival has also provided a significant platform for Chilean music, with performances by local artists drawing some of its largest crowds. Notable Chileans acts have included Mon Laferte, Los Tres, Chico Trujillo, Anita Tijoux, Alex Anwandter, Los Jaivas, Los Bunkers, Javiera Mena, Francisca Valenzuela, Joe Vasconcellos, and Gepe.
Lollapalooza Chile has also served as a springboard for Chilean artists such as Los Bunkers, Chico Trujillo, and Ana Tijoux, allowing them to perform at the original Lollapalooza festival in Chicago.
In November 2010, Perry Farrell announced that the twentieth edition of the Lollapalooza festival would be held outside the United States for the first time. The chosen venue was Parque O'Higgins in Santiago, Chile on April 2 and 3, 2011.
The event featured 54 artists from Chile, United States, Brazil, Argentina, and France attracting approximately 100,000 attendees across the O'Higgins Park Ellipse, the Movistar Arena, and the Theater Dome.
The lineup was very poorly received by many festival fans when it was first released, as there were only a few big-name artists such as Björk, MGMT, Joan Jett and Foo Fighters, but by the time the festival finally started many popular artists such as Arctic Monkeys Calvin Harris, Skrillex, Tinie Tempah and Foster the People, among others joined the lineup. This new version of the Festival showed various improvements, such as security, a wider selection of food posts, better information regarding the festival itself and a better atmosphere.
The lineup for the festival was very well received by the people as it brought many quality, big-name artists such as Pearl Jam, Keane, Franz Ferdinand, Queens of the Stone Age, The Black Keys, The Hives, Kaiser Chiefs, deadmau5, Passion Pit, Two Door Cinema Club, Of Monsters and Men, A Perfect Circle, Hot Chip and Foals, and many others.
On January 28, 2013, Lotus released the schedules of each artist on Facebook, with the participation of fans through "likes", which served to open the "curtain" with the schedules of each stage on their website.
Lollapalooza Chile 2014 was the fourth edition of the popular festival in the country. It was held in the O'Higgins Park in Santiago on 29th and 30 March of that year. The final attending number of spectators estimated by Lotus Productions was around 160,000 people, about 80,000 in total.
"In pursuit of the ultimate band of Kidzapalooza", sponsored by Lotus Productions and Coca-Cola Chile, the competition was intended to encourage the participation of young people across Chile between the ages of 14 and 18 years old encouraging them to participate with their own band for the grand prize to appear in the official scenario of Kidzapalooza during the 2014 Lollapalooza Chile Festival. To participate, each band had to send a home video (uncut) of 90 seconds, where all members appeared playing and/or singing. This video had to be sent, together with information of the band, between October 24 and December 22, 2013. The winning band was Mangoré.
The line up was released on November 16, 2014. Jorge Gonzalez, ex leader of a Chilean 80's rock band known as Los Prisioneros cancelled his presentation after suffering a stroke on February 8, 2015. On March 2, it was confirmed that his replacement would be Ana Tijoux.
The sixth edition of Lollapalooza Chile was held on 19–20 March 2016. The official 2016 lineup was released on October 6, 2015, and their headliner were; Eminem, Florence + The Machine, Jack Ü, Mumford and Sons.
The seventh editoin of Lollapalooza Chile was held on 1–2 April 2017. The official 2017 lineup was released on September 28, 2017, headliners will be; Metallica, The Strokes, The Weeknd and The XX. It was the edition with most attendance in the history of Lollapalooza Chile with 85.000 peoples per day. A few days before the festival, was officially revealed a new stage called "Aldea Verde Stage" who is in the Green Spirit Area.
The eighth edition of Lollapalooza Chile was held on 16–18 March 2018. It was the first time that the festival was realized in three days. Also, Lollapalooza made an expansion of the park giving to the fans new zones for walk. This version received more than 80,000 attendees per day. This edition was one of the most criticized due to the logistical problems that the festival had due to the electric storms that affected Buenos Aires, Argentina (most of the bands were playing at Lollapalooza Argentina in the same weekend), that affected the arrival of several artists on Saturday and Sunday, even having to cancel some shows and move others. Days before the festival begins, it was announced that Tyler, the Creator would not be able to play at the festival, in his replacement Aurora was confirmed.
The ninth edition of Lollapalooza Chile was held on March 29-31, 2019. In 2019, Lollapalooza Chile featured more than 120 artists on eight stages, three more than the Argentinian and Brazilian editions. The headliners of the 2019 lineup included Kendrick Lamar, Arctic Monkeys, Twenty One Pilots, Lenny Kravitz, Post Malone, Sam Smith and Tiesto. The lineup also include names like The 1975, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Macklemore, Steve Aoki, Portugal. the Man, Interpol, Odesza, Years & Years, Snow Patrol, Bring Me the Horizon, Greta Van Fleet, Ziggy Marley and many others.
The tenth edition of Lollapalooza Chile was held on 18–20 March 2022.
The 12th edition of Lollapalooza Chile was held on 15–17 March, 2024. The headliners for the festival were Blink-182, Feid, SZA, Sam Smith, Arcade Fire, Limp Bizkit, Hozier, and The Offspring.
The 13th edition of Lollapalooza Chile was held on 21–23 March 2025. The headliners for the festival were Olivia Rodrigo, Rüfüs Du Sol, Justin Timberlake, Alanis Morissette, Tool, and Shawn Mendes. Other big artists that performed but were not headliners included Benson Boone, Girl in Red, Tate McRae, and Teddy Swims.