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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime viewership falls short of Kendrick Lamar’s record

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime viewership falls short of Kendrick Lamar’s record

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Bad Bunny’s halftime show at this year’s Super Bowl drew a massive 128.2 million viewers, but fell short of the record set last year when 133.5 million viewers tuned in to watch Kendrick Lamar. The Puerto Rican superstar’s showstopping Sunday performance came midway through the NFL championship game between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, which was itself watched by an average of 124.9 million people, according to new data published by Nielsen. Viewership peaked during the second quarter of the game when 137.8 million people were watching simultaneously, the highest peak viewership in U.S. television history. While Bad Bunny may not have broken Lamar’s record, he did easily exceed the 6.1 million people who tuned in to the YouTube livestream of the right-wing organization Turning Point USA’s rival All-American halftime show, headlined by country singer Kid Rock. open image in gallery …

Influencer Alix Earle defends cameo in Bad Bunny’s halftime show after critic calls it ‘undeserved’

Influencer Alix Earle defends cameo in Bad Bunny’s halftime show after critic calls it ‘undeserved’

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance was filled with well-known faces, from Ricky Martin to Jessica Alba. However, many viewers were shocked to see social media influencer Alix Earle dancing in the background of the rapper’s show-stopping medley. While some of the Grammy winners’ halftime guests, like Cardi B, were expected during the show because of their connection to Bad Bunny, the Hot Mess podcast host sparked confusion and backlash from viewers, who didn’t understand why she was included in the star-studded entourage. “Alix Earle being a guest in Bad Bunnys half time is so odd,” one person wrote on social media. Another commented on Earle’s TikTok video of behind-the-scenes clips of her at the game, “You’ve never once used your platform and voice for the messages bad bunny sends. This is unbelievable and undeserved.” The latter comment led Earle to defend herself, …

Essay: Decoding Bad Bunny’s triumphantly Puerto Rican Super Bowl halftime show

Essay: Decoding Bad Bunny’s triumphantly Puerto Rican Super Bowl halftime show

Thanks to Bad Bunny, it’s been a banner month for us Puerto Ricans. Coming off the heels of his emotional, history-making Grammy win for album of the year, which made it the first time an all Spanish-language album has won the category, Bad Bunny continued to break ground on Sunday with his Super Bowl halftime performance. As Latines in the United States, we’re still struggling to be properly and proportionately represented in Hollywood, politics and in the music industry, where Latin artists have been historically boxed into smaller roles, limited to exotic window dressing in the anglophone-dominated landscape of American pop. But through Bad Bunny, Puerto Rico had something to say: He tapped into his unique star power with his zeitgeist-defining magnum opus, his 2025 album “Debí Tirar Más Fotos.” Then, at the Super Bowl, he used a platform usually reserved for bombastic shows of U.S. patriotism to ensure that Puerto Rico, along with many other nations and territories that make up the Americas, would be celebrated, even as we are routinely being denigrated by …

The Best Watches of Super Bowl LX, From Bad Bunny’s New Royal Oak to Jay-Z’s Platinum Patek

The Best Watches of Super Bowl LX, From Bad Bunny’s New Royal Oak to Jay-Z’s Platinum Patek

Depending on your personal loyalties, the trouncing the Patriots received last night at the hands of the Seahawks may well have overshadowed the spectacular pageantry of the halftime show. But if you were there for the music, the commercials, and especially the watches, you were well served. If you paid close attention to the wedding scene during Bad Bunny’s performance, you might have noticed a sparkly new timepiece on his wrist (and it wasn’t the immaculate Cartier Crash he wore to the Super Bowl LX press conference last week). Indeed, the ink was barely dry on the press release for Audemars Piguet’s recent mega-drop of new watches when the Puerto Rican superstar performed in front of some 125 million people. Debuting last week in Andermatt, the Royal Oak Selfwinding with malachite dial is available in both 37mm and 41mm versions, and the former appeared beneath the cuff of Bunny’s white Zara suit. A sequel of sorts to the turquoise versions introduced in 2023, it boasts a yellow gold case with the Royal Oak’s signature integrated …

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance was full of celebrity cameos

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance was full of celebrity cameos

Bad Bunny headlined the halftime show at Sunday’s Super Bowl 2026 – and one element of the performance that got the internet buzzing was the show’s surprise celebrity cameos. The Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rap superstar took to the stage on Sunday (8th February) at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, midway through the NFL championship game between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, and delivered a performance that paid tribute to his Puerto Rican heritage. The 14-minute set kicked off with his hit track Tití Me Preguntó, during which the likes of actor Pedro Pascal, actress Jessica Alba and podcaster Alix Earle could be seen dancing on stage, as could rapper Young Miko, singer Karol G and rapper Cardi B. While Cardi B didn’t sing, fans in the stadium were in for a treat later on in the set when Lady Gaga made a surprise appearance. The singer delivered a salsa version of her 2025 duet with Bruno Mars, Die With A Smile. The stadium erupted again when Ricky Martin appeared for a cover …

Super Bowl 2026: Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Featured A Real Wedding

Super Bowl 2026: Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Featured A Real Wedding

Bad Bunny’s historic halftime performance at the Super Bowl on Sunday brought more surprises than just his sizzling set and celebrity cameos. Ahead of Lady Gaga hitting the stage as one of the Puerto Rican superstar’s surprise guests, an officiant was seen appearing to wed two people. After social media users speculated whether or not the two were a real couiple, and if they had actually tied the knot, NBC Sports’ Rohan Nadkarni confirmed that the wedding was, indeed, real. Bad Bunny’s representatives have also confirmed to Variety that the nuptials were legitimate. The moment reportedly came to be after the couple invited Bad Bunny to their ceremony, but the musician couldn’t attend as he was occupied with the Super Bowl halftime show — so the pair were offered the opportunity of a lifetime to get married on stage midway through the performance at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, instead. A wedding took place during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show JOSH EDELSON via Getty Images As the couple got hitched on stage, Gaga …

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 Outfit Was Designed By Zara

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 Outfit Was Designed By Zara

But while many of his musical peers hit the Super Bowl stage in designer gear, Bad Bunny went in a very different direction for his performance. It turns out his entire outfit – an all-cream ensemble featuring a shirt-and-tie combo overlain with a football jersey with a subtle “64” detail – was designed by the Spanish high-street retailer Zara. “Acho, PR es otra cosa!” Source link

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 Show Was a Joyful Act of Resilience—and Resistance

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl 2026 Show Was a Joyful Act of Resilience—and Resistance

Though he’s never compromised his native Spanish, Bad Bunny framed the halftime language barrier that so triggered MAGA (“in America, we speak English!”) not as an exclusion, but an invitation (body language is universal, babes). “They don’t even have to learn Spanish,” he said of viewers in his preshow press conference. “Better they learn to dance.” In his rich baritone, Bad Bunny rapped and sang entirely in his native tongue—the only English-singing came from Gaga—but what he chose to say in which language mattered, especially as President Trump predictably blasted Martínez’s performance on Truth Social, claiming, “nobody understands a word this guy is saying.” Bad Bunny chose English for his stirring closing salvo, “God bless America,” a stunning rebuke to anyone (Kid Rock) suggesting he doesn’t love the U.S., before launching into a roll call of Latino countries, plus the U.S. and Canada. They’re lands linked through language, culture and diaspora, the places from which immigrants under attack in America might hail. Bad Bunny named them all, their flags whipping behind him, with a sense …

The Undeniable Fun of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

The Undeniable Fun of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show

In the days and weeks leading up to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, a nervous kind of hype swept America. The 31-year-old artist is, by some measures, the most popular working musician in the world. But because he almost exclusively performs in Spanish and has spoken up against ICE, right-wing commentators suggested he was too political for the time slot, while branding him with various scary synonyms like “provocative” and “divisive.” Just a few hours before the show, the influencer Jake Paul called him “a fake American citizen performing who publicly hates America.” During his performance on Sunday night, Bad Bunny had an answer for that last one: “God bless America,” he announced. But his entire performance rebuked the notion that he is some culture-war proxy being foisted upon an American public that wants its stars to shut up and sing. Yes, he filled this show with slogans and symbols signalling Puerto Rican and Latino pride at a time when federal agents are menacing Spanish speakers and President Trump has declared English to be …