Some people thought the track didn’t match the vibe of the championship game, but it saw a huge spike in listeners<\/p>\n
\n\tNo one really knew what to make of Justin Bieber<\/a>\u2018s pared-down performance at the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a> halftime show<\/a>, especially the confusing song selection \u201cEverything Hallelujah.\u201d On Sunday afternoon, Bieber dove into the head-scratcher on an acoustic guitar after he was introduced by Jason Sudeikis in character as Ted Lasso. But, as it turns out, the strange choice paid off: the 2025 song just saw a 240 percent spike in global streams on Spotify, according to data shared with Rolling Stone.<\/p>\n \n\tIt\u2019s not that surprising of a development. \u201cJustin Bieber song hallelujah\u201d and \u201cJustin Bieber hallelujah song\u201d are the top two queries under the musician\u2019s name on Google Trends<\/a>. Maybe folks were turning to Spotify to confirm that the Swag II was, in fact, part of Bieber\u2019s discography and not some obscure Christian rock track.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tThe streaming hike also comes after some viewers criticized<\/a> Bieber\u2019s decision to perform \u201cEverything Hallelujah\u201d on acoustic guitar, which didn\u2019t seem to fit into such a big spectacle sports moment. Some people thought he\u2019d sing one of his recent hits like \u201cYukon\u201d or pop classics like \u201cBaby.\u201d \u201cJustin Bieber saw people having fun and said let me doing a boring song and ruin the vibe for everyone,\u201d wrote<\/a> one X user.<\/p>\n \n\tEarlier this year, Bieber also saw a huge streaming surge<\/a> following his headlining performance<\/a> at Coachella 2026. The star experienced his biggest streaming day of the year at that point on Spotify on April 12 with 24.6 million streams. Nearly a month after the music festival, Bieber was still experiencing a streaming bump, amassing<\/a> 140 million listeners in just a few short weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some people thought the track didn’t match the vibe of the championship game, but it saw a huge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[215226,96,7322,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","tag-entertainment","tag-justin-bieber","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702557","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=702557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}