Madonna ‘refused to be placed in Legends Slot at Glastonbury’

The comments came as the singer prepared for the release Confessions IIher follow-up to that of 2005 Confessions on a dance floorafter spending the past year in the studio with longtime collaborator Stuart Price.

Madonna had previously been linked to Glastonbury in 2024 following the launch of her Celebration Tour in London, where festival organizer Emily Eavis was spotted in the audience, but she returned to filming instead.

Sources now tell us she could headline the Somerset festival in 2027.

But a music industry insider said Madonna had little interest in accepting a legacy booking and being placed in the Legends slot, which falls on the last night of the festival as the sun sets, because she views it as a “grandmother or grandpa gig.”

The source added: “Madonna has huge respect for Glastonbury, but she has never seen herself as a nostalgia act. The Legends Slot celebrates extraordinary careers, but she believes it has become associated with artists reliving past glories, such as Dolly Parton.

“In her mind, she is still making new music, pushing creative boundaries and competing with today’s biggest stars, so she would rather headline the festival than be presented as an old artist.”

Another insider close to the festival planning said: “Madonna doesn’t want the public to think she has reached the stage where she is being honored for what she achieved decades ago. Madonna has built her career on reinvention, and she still sees herself as a contemporary artist. Accepting the Legends Slot would send the wrong message from her perspective: she wants to be the headliner on Saturday night.”