{"id":773255,"date":"2026-07-20T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/773255\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:41:09","slug":"watch-bts-perform-dynamite-during-fifa-world-cup-final-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/773255\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch BTS Perform Dynamite During FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBTS<\/a> performed at FIFA<\/a>\u2019s first-ever halftime show Sunday, taking part in an 11-minute mega-mix performance during the World Cup 2026<\/a> final game between Spain and Argentina. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe seven-member global boy group, comprising members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook, treated the crowd at New York New Jersey Stadium, known outside of World Cup time as MetLife Stadium, with a rendition of their 2020 hit \u201cDynamite.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBTS joined Madonna, Justin Bieber and Shakira, along with Burna Boy, the New York Philharmonic\u2019s Gustavo Dudamel and The Muppets, in the jam-packed halftime show. Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt also made an appearance as their characters from Ted Lasso<\/a>. Sunday\u2019s game comes after cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico hosted matches throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe youngest member of the K-pop sensation, Jung Kook, kicked off BTS\u2019 segment of the show following a nod to Norway\u2019s viking row celebration. The 28-year-old was dressed, much like his other group members in red, black and white, pairing a cool motto jacket with sunglasses. The rest of BTS trickled in as the song continued. <\/p>\n

\n\tBTS opted to modify the lyrics to \u201cDynamite\u201d to make them fit Sunday\u2019s game with lines like \u201cKing Kong, kick the ball\u201d and \u201cDing-dong, call me on my phone \/ Ice tea, and a game of football\u201d \u2014 the latter sang by V, whose real name is Taehyung Kim, who pretended to kick a ball as he delivered the line. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe halftime was produced by Global Citizen with\u00a0programming curated<\/a>\u00a0by Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin. The non-profit organization has a goal of raising $100 million for the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund \u2014 each ticket purchased throughout the World Cup has had $1 donated to the fund.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe record-breaking boy group is in the midst of a massive comeback year. All seven members returned to group activities last year following their mandatory military enlistment in their home country of South Korea to world on a new album. They released that album, Arirang, in March.<\/p>\n

\n\tBTS is in the midst of a large scale world tour in support of Arirang. They took a break from their string of sold-out shows in Las Vegas in May to take home three American Music Awards in their post-enlistment return to award shows. They\u2019re scheduled to return to Sin City for the iHeartRadio Music Festival in September. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe K-pop group will return to MetLife Stadium in just a few short weeks to perform two sold-out shows of their own at the stadium on Aug. 1 and Aug. 2. <\/p>\n

\n\tWatch BTS and the full halftime show below. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS performed at FIFA\u2019s first-ever halftime show Sunday, taking part in an 11-minute mega-mix performance during the World…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[92201,88,7183,8363,25702,216,153412],"class_list":["post-773255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-k-pop-news","tag-music","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773255","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=773255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}