{"id":681320,"date":"2026-07-09T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681320\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:05:09","slug":"justin-bieber-added-to-world-cup-final-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681320\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Bieber Added to World Cup Final Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an apparent attempt to promote as many professional sporting events as possible, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/33315-justin-bieber\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Bieber<\/a> has now been added to the FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show on July 19. The news arrives shortly after the pop star <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/justin-bieber-announces-1st-pick-of-2026-nhl-draft\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/justin-bieber-announces-1st-pick-of-2026-nhl-draft&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/justin-bieber-announces-1st-pick-of-2026-nhl-draft\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the first pick of the NHL Draft for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He joins an <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/madonna-shakira-and-bts-set-for-first-ever-world-cup-final-halftime-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already loaded<\/a> performance lineup of Madonna, Shakira, BTS, Burna Boy, Coldplay, Miss Piggy, Kermit, a chorus of 4th and 5th graders from an elementary school in Staten Island, and\u2014last but certainly not least\u2014the cast of Sesame Street.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been busy a few weeks for Bieber overall. In addition to the World Cup news and NHL cameo, he released live albums from <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/watch-justin-bieber-headline-coachella-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">both<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/justin-bieber-brings-out-sza-billie-eilish-and-more-at-coachella\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">weekends<\/a> of his 2026 Coachella set.<\/p>\n<p>Revisit our reviews of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/justin-bieber-swag\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swag<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/justin-bieber-swag-ii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Swag II<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an apparent attempt to promote as many professional sporting events as possible, Justin Bieber has now been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,7322,128,50,1012,56,54,55,307],"class_list":["post-681320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-justin-bieber","tag-music","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}