Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress Perform ‘Stateside’ Together for the First Time

Zara Larsson and PinkPantheress gave their Stateside collaboration its first live performance together at All Points East in London, turning one of the festival weekend’s most obvious crossover opportunities into a genuine pop moment. The Zara Larsson PinkPantheress Stateside performance took place during Larsson’s set in Victoria Park, where both artists were appearing on the bill for Lorde’s sold-out Saturday show.

The pairing made particular sense at All Points East. The festival’s official line-up for Saturday 22 August listed PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson among the leading names beneath headliner Lorde, alongside Djo, Sienna Spiro and 2hollis. With both collaborators already on site, Larsson brought PinkPantheress into her set to perform Stateside together.

According to Pitchfork, it was the first time the pair had performed Stateside live together. The collaboration has had a long life beyond its original release, developing into a significant crossover hit and keeping both artists connected through a song that combines PinkPantheress’s compact, UK-rooted pop style with Larsson’s brighter, bigger-scale delivery.

The track’s UK performance gives the London appearance extra weight. Official Charts records Stateside as having reached number three on the Official Singles Chart. The chart body lists Warner Records as its label and shows the song continuing to appear in the UK Top 100 well into August 2026. That staying power means the All Points East performance was not simply a festival cameo built around an old collaboration: it brought together two artists behind a song that has remained part of the British pop conversation.

There is also a neat sense of symmetry to the moment. PinkPantheress is one of the most distinctive British pop artists to emerge in recent years, while Swedish singer Larsson has built a long relationship with UK audiences through hits including Lush Life. Official Charts data shows that song has itself remained an unusually durable streaming favourite in Britain.

Stateside has helped connect those two pop worlds. Its continued chart presence illustrates how songs can now find several distinct lives: first as releases, then through remixes and collaborations, social sharing, streaming and finally major live moments. A first joint festival performance can become another chapter rather than the end of a conventional promotional cycle.

For All Points East, the surprise also fitted a day unusually rich in contemporary pop. The official festival programme placed Lorde at the top of a bill that brought together PinkPantheress, Larsson and a broad selection of newer alternative and electronic-pop artists. The event was confirmed as sold out by the festival.

Pitchfork also noted that Larsson and PinkPantheress had crossed paths on stage before. At Coachella in April, PinkPantheress appeared during Larsson’s performance in connection with a reworked version of Larsson’s Midnight Sun. Saturday’s London appearance, however, marked the point at which Stateside itself finally became a shared live performance.

For UK fans, that distinction matters because the song’s success here has been substantial rather than peripheral. A number-three peak puts Stateside firmly among PinkPantheress’s major chart records, while its extended run demonstrates that listeners continued returning to it long after its initial arrival.

The Zara Larsson PinkPantheress Stateside performance therefore landed as more than a convenient guest appearance. It was the live meeting of two artists whose collaboration had already proved its staying power in the UK, staged in front of a sold-out London festival crowd with both performers on the same bill.

For a track that has travelled through different versions and audiences, hearing both voices together on a London stage gave the collaboration a clear live identity of its own.

In a summer crowded with large-scale tours and festival moments, this one was relatively simple: two pop artists, one established collaboration and the first chance for a British audience to see them perform it together. Sometimes that is enough to make a festival set feel genuinely specific to the night on which it happened.