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. The Super Bowl's first halftime show to feature an exclusive hip-hop line-up more than delivered, with rap legends such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar (and The Weeknd performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show at Raymond James Stadium on [+] February 07, 2021 in Tampa, Florida, one of the best Super Bowl halftime shows ever. Getty Images Jackson's performance was considered to be revolutionary, with it being the first time that the Super Bowl's ratings jumped during halftime and into the second half. 3. Dr. The Super Bowl XXVII halftime show starring Michael Jackson is the most watched Super Bowl halftime show, with a TV audience of more than 133.4 million viewers. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] The Super Bowl LVI halftime show starring Dr. Dre , Snoop Dog , Eminem , Mary J. Blige , Kendrick Lamar and 50 cent is the most viewed Super Bowl halftime show on YouTube Shakira and Jennifer Lopez perform onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show at Hard Rock Stadium on Feb. 2, 2020, in Miami. Kevin Winter/Getty Images. In 1993, Michael Jackson created the Super Bowl halftime show as we know it today. Vulture ranks every performance up to the 2024 Usher show, from worst to best. The Role of the Halftime Show in Super Bowl Ratings. The Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t always the spectacle that fans view it to be today. The NFL had brought in collegiate marching bands for So, here goes: a full ranking of every Super Bowl halftime show from 1991 to the present. Here’s the rubric I used. The most a show could score is 50 points. Music (1-10) As of 2022, Katy Perry's 2015 Super Bowl halftime show ranked as the most viewed halftime performance ever, with 118.5 million viewers tuning in to experience it. Super Bowl TV ratings in the So, here goes: a full ranking of every Super Bowl halftime show from 1991 to the present. Here’s the rubric I used. The most a show could score is 50 points. Music (1-10) The Super Bowl halftime show did not feature megastars until the early 1990s. Viewers were often subjected to marching bands and productions that generally had bizarre themes. The Role of the Halftime Show in Super Bowl Ratings. The Super Bowl halftime show wasn’t always the spectacle that fans view it to be today. The NFL had brought in collegiate marching bands for In 1993, Michael Jackson created the Super Bowl halftime show as we know it today. Vulture ranks every performance up to the 2024 Usher show, from worst to best. 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 Super Bowl XXVII halftime show starring Michael Jackson is the most watched Super Bowl halftime show, with a TV audience of more than 133.4 million viewers. [ 68 ] [ 69 ] The Super Bowl LVI halftime show starring Dr. Dre , Snoop Dog , Eminem , Mary J. Blige , Kendrick Lamar and 50 cent is the most viewed Super Bowl halftime show on YouTube The most-watched Super Bowl Halftime Show is Michael Jackson’s iconic 1993 set at Super Bowl XXVII, drawing a reported 133.4 million American viewers. Before Jackson, the Halftime Show was largely uneventful and featured less appealing acts. Rapper Kendrick Lamar, one of the big success stories of the Grammys last weeks, said Thursday his fans should expect "storytelling" at the Super Bowl halftime show this weekend. Lamar will headline the halftime show at Sunday's showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, and has announced SZA will join him as a The Super Bowl 58 halftime show will be broadcast on CBS following the end of the second quarter of the 49ers vs. Chiefs' clash. Cord-cutters can find the action on Paramount+ or fubo, ATLANTA - Rolling Stone magazine has released a new ranking of Super Bowl halftime shows and Usher's show didn't even make the top 10.. Usher's 13-minute show featuring 14 songs ranks No. 18 on
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