BINI reveals which artists they hope to meet at Coachella 2026

January 1 ------ BINI reflected on the success they have achieved so far, as well as how they are navigating their growing fame. In an interview with Toronto's MUCH, the Nation's Girl Group was asked whether they have already adjusted to the attention and success that come with their rising career. "I think we always try every day to make it seem normal with everything happening. But honestly we are just very grateful and blessed that we have many, many blessings and projects, and now we have Coachella coming up so we are just focusing on being grateful," BINI Mikha said.

BINI Jhoanna echoed this sentiment, emphasizing that growth remains the group's priority despite the overwhelming pace of their success. "[It is] still overwhelming but we are still hungry for growth, and I think that is the most important thing," she said. BINI is set to make history as the first Filipino group to perform at Coachella. When asked which artists they hope to meet during the festival, the group named BIGBANG, Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, KATSEYE, Laufey, Central Cee, and PinkPantheress.

In a recent interview with KRON4, BINI shared how they reacted upon learning that they would be performing at next year's Coachella. "It was a complete surprise because our management didn't tell us anything about Coachella. It was crazy emotions from us. And there was just one morning when we were just scrolling through our social media like usual and we saw a fan posted about Coachella and we saw our name BINI, so we were surprised and we hugged each other," Stacey recalled. The girls admitted they were initially in disbelief. "At first we thought it was just edited and someone messing with us. We messaged to the group chat and then we asked our management, ‘is this real?’ And our team confirmed. And it hit us — we are really performing at Coachella," Stacey added.

Meanwhile, in an interview with Karmina Constantino on the KC After Hours podcast, Star Magic head Lauren Dyogi relayed that BINI's recent world tour paved the way for the group to be part of Coachella. "Laging ang nasa utak natin, one way to go international is to be invited in big festivals [like] Coachella and Lollapalooza... It was a vision of CLK (Carlo Katigbak, ABS-CBN's CEO) to hire an international group of consultants who will guide us in terms of how do we bring our artists to the global arena, so we are guided by that. Kasi abroad naman agents eh," he explained.

Through the agents, BINI's world tour was able to catch the attention of international promoters who are behind the music festivals. "Ngayon when we were able to get an agent nadala tayo sa promoters na non-Filipinos. And these promoters, ang vision talaga nun is if we were able to impress the promoters, itong mga promoters na 'to, sila din 'yung magdadala sa atin sa festival. So, we needed to impress our promoters, so that's Live Nation, that's All Things Live," he further explained.

Lauren revealed that BINI's recent world tour was an investment rather than a revenue-making endeavor. "Itong recent world tour, it was an investment. Wala tayong kita diyan. It was really a risk on our end. It was really CLK's vision, Tita Cory (Vidanes) saying, 'Kailangan niyong gawin yan.' Because that's a month of being away from more lucrative opportunities locally. But we took that risk, we went there," he shared.

During the tour, BINI needed to show to the promoters that they could draw crowds to their concerts. "We needed to be able to prove that somehow we have a crowd, we have an audience, and after the world tour, boom... We had big shows kasi in Dubai, in LA, in San Francisco, parang 'yung the important decision makers were impressed that uy there is something in BINI so we got an invitation to be part of [Coachella]," he shared.

Source: news.abs-cbn.com