Lollapalooza Chile
Lollapalooza Chile is the Chilean edition of the popular music festival Lollapalooza. It was the first Lollapalooza event to be held outside the United States and has taken place in Santiago, Chile since 2011.
History
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.
Acts
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.
Lineups by year
2011
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.
2012
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.2013
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.
2014
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 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.