Topics: Coachella, Justin Bieber, Music, Money, Entertainment, News, World News, Celebrity
Coachella has been forced to fork out the cash after Justin Bieber and Anyma's performances broke festival rules, resulting in hefty fines.
The California music festival, which ran over the past two weekends and ended on Sunday (19 April), attracted around 125,000 people each day to the Empire Polo Club in the Colorado Desert.
Headliners Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, and Karol G put on two show-stopping performances each weekend, drawing in huge crowds from around the world, alongside a slew of other musicians.
But, it's now been revealed that during the second weekend, both Bieber and Anyma racked up some serious fines by going over the 1:00am curfew set by the City of Indio.
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As reported by Billboard, a representative of the city confirmed that Goldenvoice, the promoter of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, is facing more than $40,000 (£29,586).
While weekend one stayed firmly inside the curfew hours, weekend two ran over not once, but twice.
As first reported by TMZ, Anyma's midnight set on Friday (17 April) went on for an additional nine minutes, until 1:09am, costing the festival $24,000 (£17,754) in fines.
And Bieber's second headline set on Saturday (18 April), went over only by two minutes, but this still set organisers back an additional $20,000 (£14,794).
So, that's a whopping $44,000 altogether (£32,549) that the festival has to pay.
For context, the agreement reportedly states that Coachella is fined $20,000 for the first five minutes it goes over the curfew limit, with additional fines racking up beyond that.
The agreement with city officials outlines that the festivities must come to an end at 1:00am each Friday and Saturday night and at midnight on Sundays.
However, it's not the first time this has happened, as last year the festival faced similar fines of $20,000 when Travis Scott went three minutes past curfew on the first weekend.
And all the way back in 2009, Paul McCartney ran 54 minutes over, promoting a huge $54,000 (£39,944) fine.
Despite resulting in a fine, Bieber's headline set certainly pleased the Beliebers, with the star performing a mix of his older throwback songs and his newer hits from SWAG.
He even got 24-year-old super fan Billie Eilish up on stage for 'One Less Lonely Girl,' which sent the crowd wild.
The Canadian singer, 32, also broke a slew of records in the process, including bagging the spot as the highest-paid artist with a reported $10 million payout for his two headline performances.
As reported by Vogue Magazine, the singer's brand Skylrk sold a whopping $5.04 million worth of product over weekend one of Coachella. This beat the music festival’s previous two-weekend record of $1.7 million across both weekends.
Tyla has contacted representatives for Coachella, Bieber, and Anyma for comment.
