{"id":461214,"date":"2026-02-11T01:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461214\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:31:11","slug":"super-bowl-and-bad-bunny-halftime-show-fall-short-of-viewership-records-nielsen-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461214\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl and Bad Bunny halftime show fall short of viewership records, Nielsen says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AP<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 12:27AM<\/p>\n

\"ABC<\/p>\n

Sunday night’s Super Bowl and Bad Bunny fell short of setting records of setting records for most watched U.S. broadcast and halftime show.<\/p>\n

Seattle’s 29-13 victory over New England averaged 124.9 million viewers on NBC, Peacock, Telemundo, NBC Sports Digital, and NFL+, according to Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel rating system.<\/p>\n

That fell short of the 127.7 million U.S. viewers that tuned in for Philadelphia’s 40-22 victory over Kansas City last year on Fox.<\/p>\n

\"Bad<\/a><\/p>\n

Bad Bunny performs during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl 60 football game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, Calif.<\/p>\n

AP Photo\/Julio Cortez<\/p>\n

Bad Bunny’s halftime show averaged 128.2 million viewers from 8:15-8:30 p.m. Eastern. That would make it the fourth-most watched halftime behind Kendrick Lamar (133.5 million, 2025), Michael Jackson (133.4 million, 1993) and Usher (129.3 million, 2024).<\/p>\n

Full global viewership for the halftime show is expected to be available early next week.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, February 11, 2026 12:27AM Sunday night’s Super Bowl and Bad Bunny fell short of setting records of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[215123,4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-461214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-215123","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}