SZA opens Glastonbury headline set to sparse crowd amid major set clashes

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Crowds at SZA’s Glastonbury performance on Sunday appeared unusually sparse for a festival headliner, as the Grammy-nominated artist’s set clashed with a number of other major sets. The Independent’s Louis Chilton reported a “surprising number of people” leaving the Worthy farm festival site ahead of her set, presumably in an attempt to beat traffic. SZA headlined Sunday at Glastonbury 2024 One person on X/Twitter voiced their confusion, saying, “I’ve looked up SZA on Spotify, she’s got 70.5 mill followers and one of her songs has been streamed 1.9 billion times, I am clearly in a minority, I’ve never heard her or even of her.” SZA began her music career in 2011, after co-writing hits including “Consideration” for Rihanna’s 2016 album Anti. While crowds at SZA’s headline Sunday set were thinner than expected amid those multiple significant set clashes, there have been questions around placing other artists on smaller stages.