The worst-kept secret in music is officially confirmed. Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl LXI halftime show on Feb. 14, 2027, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. The announcement aired during ESPN’s Monday Night Football broadcast on Oct. 26, and it came with a black-and-white teaser featuring Jay surrounded by goats and the tagline“GOAT’s out of the bag.”Puck had reported the news a week earlier, but the official drop still sent social media into a frenzy.
The story here is the full-circle factor. Roc Nation has produced the halftime show since 2019, but Jay-Z has never actually performed it himself. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said he had“just one request: that Jay-Z take the stage himself one day, whenever the moment felt right to him.”That moment arrives at SoFi Stadium, the same venue where Jay recently performed. The show will air on ESPN, ABC and Disney+, with Hamish Hamilton directing.
Reactions poured in immediately, and nobody was louder than Jason Kelce. The retired Eagles center and ESPN analyst called Jay-Z“the GOAT”and said he has“more stadium-ready hits than most artists have songs, period.”The bar is high, though, since Bad Bunny’s halftime show last year set a record with 4.157 billion viewers across platforms in the first 24 hours.
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