{"id":1004653,"date":"2024-01-10T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheatsheet.com\/?p=1004653"},"modified":"2024-01-10T16:42:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T21:42:38","slug":"heres-how-the-nfl-chooses-the-super-bowl-halftime-performers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/heres-how-the-nfl-chooses-the-super-bowl-halftime-performers\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How the NFL Chooses the Super Bowl Halftime Performers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Super Bowl halftime show is probably one of the most high-profile spectacles in all of sports. After all, when else do musical artists have a captive audience of more than 100 million<\/a> people? Even if half the TV viewers get snacks and go to the bathroom at halftime, that\u2019s still at least 50 million people watching the show.<\/p>\n

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Madonna performs during the Super Bowl halftime show in 2012. | Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since it\u2019s such a big stage, the Super Bowl halftime performers come from a pretty short list. Your friend\u2019s cover band that plays Sunday night at the local watering hole probably has no chance of getting the gig, although even some of the biggest names in entertainment are responsible for the\u00a0worst Super Bowl halftime shows. Probably because only the biggest stars are invited. Thats how it works. Duh! But how does the NFL choose who plays?<\/p>\n

How the NFL chooses the Super Bowl halftime show performers<\/h2>\n
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Prince performed at halftime of the Super Bowl in 2007. | Jonathan Daniel\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The NFL is a massive entity and the\u00a0most popular sport in the United States<\/a>, so it takes a lot of care to make the right choice for the Super Bowl halftime show. A journalist who used to cover the Tennessee Titans\u00a0writes on Quora that the league considers popularity, music genre, and the artists\u2019 overall performance value. So even though\u00a0Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones were at the peak of their powers in the late 1960s, they didn\u2019t have a broad enough appeal to play at the Super Bowl (not they would have wanted to play anyway).<\/p>\n

So the league starts with popular performers who appeal to as many people as possible and goes from there. However, it\u2019s not the NFL that chooses who takes the stage. The league comes up with a short list, but the host cities pick the Super Bowl halftime performers.<\/p>\n

Atlanta, which hosts the 2019 Super Bowl, picked Maroon 5 to play at halftime. As we\u2019re about to see, it will be a while before Adam Levine and his crew play at the big game a second time, if at all.<\/p>\n

Most artists don't play at the Super Bowl more than once<\/h2>\n
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Beyonc?e, Chris Martin of Coldplay, and Bruno Mars shared the stage during the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. | Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The NFL doesn\u2019t bring back performers too often. Aside from Up With People, who played four times between 1976 and 1986, the league has never repeated the artist who\u2019s headlined the Super Bowl halftime show. Only a handful of artists have even appeared more than once at the halftime show in any<\/i> capacity:<\/p>\n