The Glastonbury 2025 Crowd Size Debate Thread

[NorthernSoul52]

Since it's come up in a few different threads, thought we might as well have one dedicated entirely to the kind of speculation we love to debate and argue about.

 

Who will get the biggest crowd at Glastonbury in 2025? Who will exceed expectations, and who will underperform? 

 

My hunch - The 1975 will be the smallest of the three rumoured headliners but will still outperform several from recent years atop the bill, and we will inevitably have a lockout on the Other Stage for somebody.

[lefthandedopener]

On lockouts - The Libertines - if they are on any stage other than Pyramid and not in the top two slots.

 

if Elbow were up against the 1975 I’d fancy the former to draw a bigger crowd. 

Edited 3 hours ago by lefthandedopener

[JayDiesel]

29 minutes ago, lefthandedopener said:

On lockouts - The Libertines - if they are on any stage other than Pyramid and not in the top two slots.

 

if Elbow were up against the 1975 I’d fancy the former to draw a bigger crowd. 

I cannot overstate how much I disagree with that second point. Elbow? In 2024? I know there'll be a decent amount of Dads about who can't be arsed with new music, but they're never competing with The 1975 for crowd size, sorry.

 

The three tainted headliners - '75, O-Rod, and Sam - will all have decent, non-record breaking crowds. Kendrick size, or so, I imagine.

[NorthernSoul52]

Tainted headliners? What is this, a Soft Cell tribute weekend?

[JayDiesel]

I stand by what I said

 

(Meant 'touted', obvs)

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, JayDiesel said:

I stand by what I said

 

(Meant 'touted', obvs)

I thought you meant "main", to be fair.

[Nobody Interesting]

I think, from reading this site for a decade, that the views on 'size/stature' of bands is skewed vs the reality out there in the big wide world.

Elbow are popular on here, out there less so.
Same goes for Neil Young and I expect to be slated for saying that LOL 

Anywho, crowd sizes, they will be big, small, bigger, smaller and personally speaking when I am in a crowd I am watching the artist, listening to the music, singing and dancing and not looking around to try and work out how big the crowd might be.

Maybe I am weird like that, who knows.

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, Nobody Interesting said:

Anywho, crowd sizes, they will be big, small, bigger, smaller and personally speaking when I am in a crowd I am watching the artist, listening to the music, singing and dancing and not looking around to try and work out how big the crowd might be.

Maybe I am weird like that, who knows.

I am guilty of having a good look around, I will admit. Wish I wasn't, but it's a habit that's hard to break. 

[The_Fish]

Of the rumours we have so far, they will be good for spreading footfall around the site. None of those 3 will get a crowd anywhere close to Coldplay last year. Conversely, no disasters like Sza either.

 

Rod Stewart will comfortably get a bigger crowd than those 3 headliners, although if we only get 2 of them and a bigger 3rd headliner then that would change. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Depends on the third "bigger" headliner, so to speak. If it is Muse for example, I wouldn't be so sure.

[Avalon_Fields]

From what little we know or suspect, I don’t think there’s anyone who will gain a huge crowd, might not be a bad thing if the Pyramid isn’t crazy rammed, certainly nothing like Elton & Coldplay.

[gfa]

We literally know about 5 acts, bit early for this!

 

The crowd 'lockouts' will be from either blowing up acts e.g. Barry this year, or from an obvious silly booking ala Bicep / Avril. Hopefully there won't be any.