How Bad Bunny Went From Guest Star to Main Attraction at Super Bowl Halftime Show

When Bad Bunny performed connected the Super Bowl halftime signifier successful 2020, helium was a impermanent of headliners Jennifer Lopez and Shakira — joining Shak connected his 2018 “I Like It” deed with Cardi B and J Balvin, arsenic good arsenic a mash-up of their songs “Chantaje” and “Callaita.” Next year, it volition beryllium his stage.

On Sunday night, Bad Bunny was announced arsenic the headliner for the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, and connected the caller Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are talking astir the planetary superstar’s presumption arsenic 1 of the astir fashionable musicians successful the satellite and wherefore helium makes consciousness for TV’s biggest stage. Oh, and we besides code each those (completely false) rumors that Taylor Swift would beryllium headlining the amusement and whether that was ever a possibility.

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Also connected the show, we’ve got illustration quality connected however Cardi B’s Am I the Drama? debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, however Nine Inch Nails gets its highest charting medium successful implicit a decennary with the apical 5 debut of its Tron: Ares soundtrack, and however “Golden” from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack spends a seventh week atop the Billboard Hot 100, becoming 1 of the 10 longest-leading No. 1s from a movie successful the chart’s history.

The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop store for each things popular on Billboard‘s play charts. You tin ever number connected a lively treatment astir the latest popular news, amusive illustration stats and stories, caller music, and impermanent interviews with euphony stars and folks from the satellite of pop. Casual popular fans and illustration junkies tin hear Billboard‘s enforcement integer director, West Coast, Katie Atkinson and Billboard’s managing director, charts and information operations, Keith Caulfield each week connected the podcast, which tin beryllium streamed on Billboard.com or downloaded successful Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast provider. (Click present to perceive to the erstwhile variation of the show on Billboard.com.)