July 20, 2026<\/p>\n
SEOUL \u2013 BTS took the stage at the FIFA World Cup final on Sunday, becoming one of the featured performers at the tournament\u2019s first-ever halftime show.<\/p>\n
Held at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey during the break between the first and second halves of the final between Argentina and Spain, the 11-minute performance formed part of an extended halftime interval introduced for the championship match.<\/p>\n
The septet performed a shortened version of its global hit \u201cDynamite,\u201d the all-English single that became the group\u2019s first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 2020.<\/p>\n
The halftime show, produced in partnership with Global Citizen and curated by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, also featured performances by Madonna, Justin Bieber, Shakira and Burna Boy.<\/p>\n
The show concluded with a collaborative finale, with BTS joining the other performers, Martin and New York City\u2019s PS22 Chorus \u2014 a choir from a public elementary school on Staten Island \u2014 for a special closing performance.<\/p>\n
The appearance marked another milestone for BTS, which just wrapped up its European leg of the tour at Paris, which saw a total of around 720,000 audience members in attendance.<\/p>\n
Following its halftime show performance, BTS is expected to continue the US leg of its tour starting in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Aug. 1 and 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 20, 2026 SEOUL \u2013 BTS took the stage at the FIFA World Cup final on Sunday, becoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700936","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=700936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}