How much do Glastonbury headliners get paid as Dua Lipa, Shania Twain, Coldplay and SZA take to stage

Glastonbury Festival returns to Worthy Farm this week, with more huge names set to wow those who go along.

This year's event will be headlined by Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA, with many more incredible musicians to perform across five days. Previously, when headliners have taken to the Pyramid stage, it has prompted many people to Google "how much do they get paid?"

And the answer is less than you might think, as previously reported by Somerset Live.

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Glastonbury organisers don't disclose what individual artists are paid, but they are very open about Glastonbury's whole reason for being, which is to make money for charity.

The festival donates millions of pounds every time it is held to its official charity partners Greenpeace, WaterAid and Oxfam, as well as other good causes. Organisers aim to donate at least £2 million, though this can decrease in wet and rainy years, as the festival costs more to put on when that happens.

Michael Eavis once revealed in an interview that Coldplay and Paul McCartney were both paid around £200,000 for past headline sets. He said at the time: "Although it sounds a lot, they could have charged me far more."

Michael and daughter Emily, who now books the bulk of the acts along with her husband, have also previously said the festival's performers typically get "less than 10%" of what they'd usually get given for other festivals.

In a 2017 interview with BBC Radio 6, Emily said: "We're not in the same bracket as everyone else when it comes to paying artists massive fees."

Bestival organiser Rob Da Bank also previously said of Glastonbury: "It's the one show that artists will play for free or for a reduced price.

"They cap their budget and even the headliners don't get paid more than 500 grand, I think, which is cheap for some of the headliners and they've had a lot of them. So, that's proof of its huge, huge influence."

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