Glastonbury fans watching SZA say the same thing about the crowd

The American singer SZA, known for her hits including Saturn, Snooze and Kill Bill, brought Glastonbury to a close on Sunday night. The 34 year old made her debut at the festival, performing on the Pyramid Stage.

However, viewers both at home and at the festival noticed that the crowd was significantly smaller compared to previous headliners, with Coldplay's performance on Saturday night drawing a particularly large audience.

On X, formerly Twitter, @hanwillll commented: "Feel for SZA here. Crowd looks sparse to say the least (and she is great)... doesn't feel like a headliner though, sadly". Similarly, @IanTheMckenna observed: "Smallest crowd I've ever seen for a headline act. Crazy."

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@ZODl4C noted: "SZA's glastonbury's crowd is empty compared to Dua and Coldplay's", while @PatrickSmyth remarked: "That SZA crowd is one of the lowest I've ever seen for a Pyramid Headliner. Wow."

@somebloke25 added: "Current crowd at SZA has got to be the smallest I've ever seen@for a pyramid stage headliner", as @soupmandu wrote: "Man the crowd for SZA is the smallest I've seen for a headliner in a while but tbh think she will please the crowd that is there and might pull more people in throughout her set.", reports the Manchester Evening News.

Viewers watching from home also noticed the vast space between fans as they gathered at the Pyramid Stage. The Mirror's reporter at Glastonbury shared how fans had much more room around them while waiting for SZA to take to the stage compared to Friday and Saturday nights.

Fans shared their heartbreak for SZA online as one said: "The Pyramid Stage looks empty :(, thought was a strange one having SZA on the Sunday especially, hope she puts on the performance of the festival! #Glastonbury." Another added: "oh dear.... not a very big showing for Sza. #Glastonbury." Someone else commented: "Is it the @bbcglasto camera angles I’m seeing or is the #PyramidStage pretty quiet @glastonbury.

"I don’t know @sza but sad to see it so quiet on the last day." A fourth wrote: "It’s a quite big crowd but it’s not a Sunday night headline crowd is it? #Glastonbury." One fan said the lineup should have been flipped as they shared: "SZA, Dua Lipa, Coldplay. That should’ve been the order of the headliners this year in my opinion but #Glastonbury #Glastonbury2024." A fan added: "I am a massive Glastonbury geek, looking at the webcam and BBC pictures the crowd awaiting Sza looks very small by headliner standards…"

Someone else suggested: "SZA was probably better suited to The Other Stage honestly but fair play for getting a Pyramid Stage headliner slot." SZA got a vastly bigger crowd on Saturday night as she performed at BST Hyde Park, in London. BST sources say she pulled in 50,000 punters, which appears to dwarf the number of people watching her at Glastonbury. But all in all, it’s been a pretty lucrative weekend for the star, as she would have picked up about £500,000 for BST, and around £200,000 for her Glastonbury headline set.

SZA, whose real name is Solana Rowe, was one of two female headliners at this year's event, alongside Dua Lipa who took the Friday night headline slot.

SZA's headline performance at Glastonbury followed her Saturday night concert at BST Hyde Park, after which she took to Instagram to express her gratitude: "Thank you for vibing w me Hyde park. See ya tomorrow Glastonbury! ! ! ! ".

British rock icons Coldplay made history by headlining the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night for the fifth time, setting a record as the first band to top the bill at the festival on five occasions.

Their performance featured an array of special guests, including Hollywood actor Michael J Fox who strummed the guitar during their rendition of 'Fix You', British rap sensation Little Simz, and Nigerian music star Burna Boy, who has previously worked with Coldplay's lead singer Chris Martin on the track 'Monsters You Made'.

In other news, Glastonbury's co-organiser Emily Eavis shared insights into future festival plans while speaking with the event's own newspaper.

In her conversation with Sunday's Glastonbury Free Press, Eavis revealed: "We're taking a fallow year in 2026 to give the land a rest, and the festival before a fallow year is always a fun one to plan because you almost have to fit two years into one."

She added that preparations are already underway for the next festival: "We're already in talks with some acts for it. It's exciting."