Super Bowl 60 is almost here!
The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks are set to battle for the Lombardi Trophy in this year’s Super Bowl at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Feb. 8.
So, who is performing the halftime show of the big game? Take a look below.
Who is opening Super Bowl 60 festivities?
Rock band Green Day will perform in a special ceremony before the Super Bowl on Feb. 8. The band from Berkeley, California – just across the San Francisco Bay from Levi’s Stadium – will perform during a ceremony celebrating the Super Bowl’s 60th anniversary.
It’ll start at 6 p.m. ET ahead of the game’s start at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Who is singing the national anthem at Super Bowl 2026?
Charlie Puth will perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the 2026 Super Bowl. Meanwhile, Brandi Carlile will tackle “America the Beautiful” and Coco Jones will sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” which is sometimes referred to as the Black National Anthem.
Fred Beam and Julian Ortiz will serve as American Sign Language interpreters.
Who is the halftime performer for Super Bowl 2026?
Bad Bunny, a six-time Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper, will headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show. The news was announced Sept. 28 during the “Sunday Night Football” game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers.
Bad Bunny − in a collaboration post with the NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation − shared a video of himself sitting atop a goal post on a beach as his 2022 song “Callaíta” plays in the background.
“Super Bowl LX. Bay Area. February 2026,” the post was captioned.
In a nod to his Puerto Rican heritage, Bad Bunny wore a pava, a traditional hat made from palm leaves or straw often worn by agricultural workers in Puerto Rico. It’s also been used as a symbol of the country’s Popular Democratic Party since 1938, per the National Museum of American History.
“What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” Bad Bunny said in a statement shared by the NFL. “This is for my people, my culture, and our history.”
Who is Bad Bunny?
The artist dubbed the “King of Latin Trap” was announced as the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show performer Sept. 28, a week after he concluded his 31-date Puerto Rico residency. Bad Bunny became the first non-English American artist to be Spotify’s most-streamed artist of the year for three years in a row, 2020 to 2022.
The six-time Grammy winner rose to the mainstream with his 2016 track “Diles.” His 2020 album “El Último Tour Del Mundo” became the first all-Spanish language album to land at the top of Billboard 200.
During the 68th annual Grammys on Feb. 1, Bad Bunny won the Grammys for Best Global Music Performance, Best Música Urbana Album and Album of the Year for “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
Beyond music, the 31-year-old rapper has embarked on a professional wrestling career, first appearing on WWE in 2021 and competing in several matches since.
Bad Bunny’s selection sparked controversy
While the announcement of Bad Bunny was met with worldwide excitement, there was also some backlash. In an appearance on Newsmax, U.S. President Donald Trump called it “absolutely ridiculous, even though I’ve never heard of him.”
Several of Trump’s supporters criticized Bad Bunny, a Spanish-speaking Latino artist, as a “Trump hater” and “un-American,” even though he is a born United States citizen since Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.
Bad Bunny has been a vocal critic of the president. His 2024 single “Una Velita” contains the lyrics, “Fueron cinco mil que dejaron morir/Y eso nunca se nos va a olvidar,” (“They let 5,000 people die/and we will never forget that,”) referring to Trump’s Hurricane Maria response in 2017, which hit Puerto Rico especially hard.
He also omitted the United States from his ongoing world tour due to concerns ICE would target and harass his fans. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warned ICE would be “all over” the Super Bowl. As part of the Super Bowl announcement, Bad Bunny tweeted in Spanish that after “thinking these last few days, I think I’ll do one date in the United States.
“Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say, ICE out,” he said at the Grammys on Feb. 1.
“We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans,” Bad Bunny continued. “I know it’s tough to not hate these days. And I was thinking, sometimes we get contaminated. The hate gets more powerful with more hate.
“The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. So please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love. We don’t hate them; we love our people. We love our family, and that’s the way to do it — with love. Don’t forget that, please.”
Both NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Jay-Z have stood by their selection, with Jay-Z saying in a statement, “What Benito has done and continues to do for Puerto Rico is truly inspiring. We are honored to have him.”
“He’s one of the leading and most popular entertainers in the world,” Goodell told CBS Sports. “That’s what we try to achieve. … It’s carefully thought through. I don’t think we’re ever selected an artist without some blowback or criticism.”
Bad Bunny responded to the criticism by closing his “Saturday Night Live” monologue on Oct. 4 in Spanish.
“All the Latinos and Latinas around the world and here in the United States, all the people who have worked to open doors. It’s more than my accomplishment, it’s an accomplishment by all of us showing that our mark, our contributions in this country, nobody will ever be able to take away or erase.”
“And if you didn’t understand what I just said,” Benito continued. “You have four months to learn.”
How long is the Super Bowl halftime show?
A regular NFL halftime normally lasts 13 minutes, but a Super Bowl halftime lasts longer to accommodate for the show, setup and take-down, in addition to teams’ on-field warmups.
When is Super Bowl 2026?
Super Bowl 60 will be played Feb. 8.
Where is Super Bowl 2026?
Super Bowl 60 will be played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the venue typically home to the San Francisco 49ers. This will be the second time the stadium, which opened in 2014, will serve as the venue for the NFL championship game.
The first time Levi’s Stadium hosted the Super Bowl was in 2016, when the Denver Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in Peyton Manning’s final NFL game.
What channel is Super Bowl 60 on?
Watch Super Bowl 60 on Peacock
In addition to NBC, which owns the broadcast rights to Super Bowl 60, the game will also air on Telemundo, Peacock and any streaming service with live TV.
The network’s “Sunday Night Football” crew, including play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico, game analyst Cris Collinsworth and sideline reporter Melissa Stark, will call the game.
Who’s playing in Super Bowl 2026?
The 2026 Super Bowl will feature the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. The last time the teams faced each other in a Super Bowl was in 2015, when Tom Brady led the New England Patriots to a 28-24 victory.
How can you get 2026 Super Bowl tickets?
Ticket packages for Super Bowl 60 are now on sale. Visit nfl.com to purchase tickets and for more information on the big game.
Who won Super Bowl 2025?
Super Bowl 59 was between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs, with the Eagles winning 40-22.
Contributing: Andrés Soto, Haadiza Ogwude, Brendan Morrow and Pamela Avila.
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Reporting by Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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