{"id":670048,"date":"2026-05-14T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670048\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:55:11","slug":"madonna-shakira-and-bts-to-co-headline-world-cup-final-half-time-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670048\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna, Shakira and BTS to co-headline World Cup final half-time show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madonna, Shakira, and BTS are to co-headline the first-ever FIFA World Cup final half-time show this July.<\/p>\n

The announcement has been made by Global Citizen (an international advocacy organisation), which is producing the performance alongside Coldplay’s Chris Martin, who is curating it.<\/p>\n

The half-time show will support the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, an initiative working to expand access to quality education and football for children worldwide.<\/p>\n

The news about the line-up was announced in a social media post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Martin is seen alongside Sesame Street’s Elmo and Cookie Monster, and a host of characters from The Muppets, as they give BTS a call.<\/p>\n

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The event will take place on Sunday, July 19, at New York\/New Jersey Stadium.<\/p>\n

The World Cup, one of the globe’s biggest sporting events, is being held in June and July this year across three countries \u2014 the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/p>\n

Shakira has recorded the official FIFA World Cup song with Burna Boy called Dai Dai.<\/p>\n

BTS released their latest album Arirang in March this year.<\/p>\n

Madonna recently announced a new album, Confessions II, due out in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Madonna<\/p>\n

Madonna poses during the Met Gala, earlier this month. (Reuters: Daniel Cole)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna, Shakira, and BTS are to co-headline the first-ever FIFA World Cup final half-time show this July. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10968,64,63,405,1760,134,24195,64214,54629,21418],"class_list":["post-670048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-10968","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bts","tag-chris-martin","tag-entertainment","tag-madonna","tag-sesame-street","tag-shakira","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670048","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=670048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}