Dangerous Bunny is formally headlining the Tremendous Bowl LX Halftime Present in 2026.
In an Instagram announcement video shared by the musician, 31, on Sunday, September 28, the “Moscow Mule” hitmaker was seen wearing a tailor-made go well with as he gazed into the digicam lens. Because the video panned out, Dangerous Bunny, actual title Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was revealed to be perched on an NFL goalpost.
“Tremendous Bowl LX. Bay Space. February 2026. #AppleMusicHalftime,” he captioned the teaser clip.
The extremely anticipated information was additionally confirmed through the Inexperienced Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys’ Sunday Evening Soccer recreation, which aired on NBC.
In a press release issued to Billboard as information broke, Dangerous Bunny mentioned that performing on the Tremendous Bowl was an honor. “What I’m feeling goes past myself,” the assertion learn. “It’s for individuals who got here earlier than me and ran numerous yards so I might are available and rating a landing … that is for my individuals, my tradition and our historical past. Ve y dile a tu abuela, que seremos el HALFTIME SHOW DEL SUPER BOWL.”
Main as much as the announcement, followers speculated Taylor Swift could be named the 2026 Tremendous Bowl halftime performer after they noticed what they believed to be a number of Easter eggs throughout her debut on Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast in August.
Swift, 35, instructed listeners that she thinks about sourdough “60 p.c of the time” since taking on bread baking as a passion. Followers related her assertion to the 2026 Tremendous Bowl, the NFL’s sixtieth, which is going down at Levi’s Stadium, the house of the San Francisco 49ers, whose mascot is Sourdough Sam.
Tremendous Bowl Sunday introduced an A-list crowd collectively to look at the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers play within the NFL championship at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium. The sport serves as a rematch of the 2020 huge recreation that the Missouri group gained. The athletes — together with respective quarterbacks Patrick Mahomes and Brock […]
Swift additionally talked about the quantity 47 twice, thanking Jason for “screaming for, like, 47 seconds” throughout her introduction and joking that she visited “47,000” nations throughout The Eras Tour. She simply so occurred to play her forty seventh live performance of the tour at Levi’s Stadium in July 2023.
Consistent with the numerology theme, Swift’s favourite quantity is 13 — Tremendous Bowl 2026 will happen throughout Travis’ thirteenth season within the NFL.
The truth that Swift reclaimed the masters of her first six albums in Might added to the hypothesis, since her whole catalog could be legally obtainable for a Tremendous Bowl setlist.
Elsewhere in her podcast look, Swift particularly addressed her curiosity in previous halftime exhibits.
Over time, stars together with Mark Wahlberg, Chrissy Teigen and extra have taken their soccer fandom to the game’s greatest annual occasion: the Tremendous Bowl. Teigen made a memorable look on the Tremendous Bowl in 2017 when she suffered a nip slip. Whereas watching the showdown between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons with […]
“I might go to sporting occasions in order that I might sing the nationwide anthem, like, every thing was a method to an finish to get to do music,” she mentioned. “I do know each halftime present from the Tremendous Bowls, however I didn’t watch the sports activities.”
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell fueled the hypothesis about Swift’s potential Tremendous Bowl efficiency even additional throughout a September look on the Right now present.
“We’d like to have Taylor play,” he teased. “She is a particular, particular expertise. And clearly she could be welcome at any time.”
When Savannah Guthrie pressed Goodell about whether or not a Swift-led halftime present was within the works, he replied, “I can’t let you know something about that,” earlier than including, “it’s a possibly.”
Although many musicians would bounce on the likelihood to carry out on the Tremendous Bowl halftime present, Gloria Estefan simply couldn’t be bothered to take care of all the preparation concerned. “I didn’t wish to go on a food regimen in December,” the “Get on Your Toes” singer joked throughout a June 2022 look on Watch What […]
Goodell additionally identified that Jay-Z — whose Roc Nation has produced the halftime present since 2020 — had a say within the determination.
“I’m ready on my buddy Jay-Z. It’s in his arms,” he mentioned. “I’m ready for the smoke to return out.”
Of the choice to get Dangerous Bunny on board, Jay-Z, 55, mentioned per the assertion shared with Billboard, “What Benito has completed and continues to do for Puerto Rico is really inspiring. We’re honored to have him on the world’s greatest stage.”
Earlier this 12 months, Kendrick Lamar headlined the Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans in February. The efficiency — which featured the rapper’s Drake diss monitor “Not Like Us,” duets of “Luther” and “All of the Stars” with SZA and cameos by Samuel L. Jackson and Serena Williams — rapidly went viral.
The Apple Music Tremendous Bowl LX Halftime Present will probably be held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Sunday, February 8, 2025. The sport and efficiency will air on NBC.
