Bruno Mars, DJ Khaled, and Post Malone have been booked to play a music festival in Saudi Arabia called Soundstorm. Taking place over the first week in December in Banban, Riyadh, Soundstorm 2022 also has Marshmello, David Guetta, and DJ Snake scheduled to perform. The artists could face real pushback around the choice to play in Saudi Arabia, which, despite opening its borders to Western entertainment in recent years, has a major history of human rights abuses, including discrimination against women and LGBTQ+ people, and of silencing its critics.