In 1979, the Super Bowl XIII broadcast recorded a drop in both average and total viewership, and the rating decreased by 0.1 to a 47.1, though all were the second-best numbers ever for the game and the share grew by 7 percentage points to a 74. The Super Bowl ratings record remains a 49.1 for 49ers-Bengals in 1982, but the viewership record was set just this year (2024) — 123.7 million for Chiefs-49ers. While Chiefs-49ers owns the largest official Super Bowl audience on record, that is only because Nielsen did not begin including out-of-home viewing in its viewership estimates until The game was not close from the start. Despite the massive blowout, this was the fourth most-watched Super Bowl in history. The average viewership number for this Super Bowl was 112,752,000. The air date for Super Bowl XLVIII was on February 2, 2014. 3. Super Bowl XLIX: New England Patriots vs Seattle Seahawks. Super Bowl XLIX was aired on NBC. Earlier Super Bowls did better when it comes to TV ratings, with the highest-rated Super Bowl being a 49.1 in 1982 between the 49ers and Bengals. Of the five highest-rated Super Bowls ever, four The defensive battle did not deter viewership, with Super Bowl 50 recording a 46.6 rating. 8. Super Bowl XLVIII (2014) – 46.7 While we'd hesitate to place any of these ads among the best The Super Bowl has surpassed 100 million viewers every year since 2010, topping out at 126.3 million in 2017 and 123.7 million in 2024. The Most-Watched Super Bowls in History Super Bowl Super Bowl television ratings and shares, including network (both NBC and CBS televised the first Super Bowl). The rating represents the percentage of televisions tuned in to a program. The share is the percentage of televisions on at the time that watched: That included 95.2 million for the 2021 Super Bowl between Tampa Bay and Kansas City, which was the game’s lowest TV-only average since 2007. Univision averaged 2.3 million viewers, the highest Super Bowl viewership on record for a Spanish-language network. The Super Bowl has been televised in Spanish in the United States since 2014. That out-rates last year’s big game—which held the record for the most-watched Super Bowl and second-most watched broadcast ever, at 115.1 million watchers—but fell short of the 150 million The audience for Super Bowl LVIII was so large that it approached the all-time most watched television broadcast in the United States set in 1969, when an estimated 125 to 150 million viewers Here Are the Top 10 Most-Watched Super Bowl Halftime Shows. From Usher, Rihanna and Beyoncé to Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake, here are the Super Bowl halftime shows with the most viewership. For a sneak peek at the best teaser ads for Super Bowl LIX, yet to be played, read First Look: Super Bowl 2025 Ads Everyone Will Be Talking About. Honorable Mention: The Super Bowl Ad Prank ZUG: The Prince Halftime Show (2007) Fox has high standards to live up to as it broadcasts Super Bowl LIX this year. On top of the Super Bowl debut of Tom Brady (as a broadcaster, of course), the prior two games set viewership records. Last year’s game between the Chiefs and 49ers set an all-time high of 123.7 million viewers on CBS, according to Nielsen, up 7% over the previous There's a new Super Bowl TV ratings record, as an average of 120.3 million viewers tuned in on CBS to watch the Chiefs beat the 49ers. NFL Shop: Across NFL Shop sites in Europe, Canada and Mexico, total sales were up +39% year-on-year, compared to Super Bowl LVII. NFL Game Pass on DAZN: Viewership across Super Bowl LVIII week Pepsi has mastered the art of capitalizing on Super Bowl viewership and capturing iconic moments in time. It has partnered with stars from Cindy Crawford to Beyoncé, but Britney Spears NFL recorded an international viewership of 62.5 million in 2023 for the Super Bowl. This figure excluded the domestic viewership of 123.4 million viewers in the United States. Of the recorded international viewers in 2023, 24.1 million viewers were from Mexico, the highest viewership recorded since the game began and a 5% increase compared to No matter which data you look at, Super Bowl LVIII was the most-watched Big Game in history. Nielsen, long considered the predominant measure of live TV viewing, reported Super Bowl 2024 reached Super Bowl TV ratings in the U.S. 1990-2024; Average Super Bowl TV audience in Canada 2011-2024 ; Public opinion on the best Super Bowl halftime show in the U.S. as of 2024; JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Sunday's Super Bowl matchup broke viewership records, becoming the most watched telecast in U.S. TV history. An average of more than 123 million people tuned in over the
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