{"id":176516,"date":"2025-09-29T02:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176516\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:14:07","slug":"super-bowl-60-halftime-show-bad-bunny-named-headline-performer-for-2026-title-game-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176516\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl 60 halftime show: Bad Bunny named headline performer for 2026 title game in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL is going global for the Super Bowl 60 halftime show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bad Bunny was revealed as the Super Bowl 60 halftime performer on Sept. 28, bringing the Puerto Rican superstar to Santa Clara to follow up Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s halftime show that captivated audiences during Super Bowl 59.<\/p>\n<p>Rumors leading up to the NFL&#8217;s announcement included mentions of Adele, Miley Cyrus and even Taylor Swift, but the league instead went in a much different direction with the 31-year0old Grammy Award winner\/<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/news\/best-super-bowl-halftime-shows-nfl-prince-beyonce\/b4ynaatbdxkt4g9qsrda2drb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Five best Super Bowl halftime shows in NFL history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who is doing the Super Bowl halftime show 2026?<\/p>\n<p>A renowned rapper and producer originally from Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny is one of the most popular musicians in Latin America and beyond. He commands a massive social media following, with nearly 50 million Instagram followers, and has three Grammy Awards in addition to eight Billboard Music awards.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sanbenito?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@sanbenito<\/a>. Super Bowl LX. Santa Clara. February 2026. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AppleMusicHalftime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#AppleMusicHalftime<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SBLX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#SBLX<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AppleMusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@AppleMusic<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNFonNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@SNFonNBC<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocNation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@RocNation<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CMn8BtUGzV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/CMn8BtUGzV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL (@NFL) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1972481383160479872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This section will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/news\/worst-super-bowl-halftime-shows-nfl-maroon-5\/vtck0ijfu6d1of0f0ghz6y3q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Five worst Super Bowl halftime shows in NFL history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has Bad Bunny played in the Super Bowl before?<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that Bad Bunny\u00a0has been in the Super Bowl halftime show, setting up a highly anticipated performance.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the Super Bowl in 2026?<\/p>\n<p>Super Bowl 60 is at Levi&#8217;s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It is the home of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Levi&#8217;s has hosted the Super Bowl once before: it was the site of Super Bowl 50, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/denver-broncos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Broncos<\/a> beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/carolina-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Panthers<\/a> 24-10.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third Super Bowl being played in the Bay Area. Before Levi&#8217;s was built, San Francisco hosted Super Bowl 19 at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, California, in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/kansas-city-chiefs\/news\/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-engagement-ring-details\/adecb6271458ae7a0382e4e7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce engagement, explained<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Super Bowl halftime show history<\/p>\n<p>Over the past decade, there have been plenty of notable faces in the Super Bowl halftime show<\/p>\n<p>Super BowlYearLocationPerformers592025New Orleans, La.Kendrick Lamar with guest SZA582024Las Vegas, Nev.Usher with guest H.E.R.572023Glendale, Ariz.Rihanna562022Los Angeles, Calif.Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Mary J. Blige552021Tampa Bay, Fla.The Weeknd542020Miami, Fla.Jennifer Lopez and Shakira532019Atlanta, Ga.Maroon 5 with guests Travis Scott and Big Boi522018Minneapolis, Minn.Justin Timberlake512017Houston, TexasLady Gaga502016Santa Clara, Calif.Coldplay with guests Beyonce\u00a0and Bruno Mars<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0All Super Bowl halftime shows &#8211;\u00a0Complete list of performers, from 1967 to last year&#8217;s halftime show<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL is going global for the Super Bowl 60 halftime show.\u00a0 Bad Bunny was revealed as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-176516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}