Rihanna performs on the 2023 Tremendous Bowl – Picture: Adam Bow/Icon Sportswire through Getty Pictures
Rihanna‘s Tremendous Bowl LVII Halftime Present is formally the most-watched halftime present efficiency of all time, in keeping with an adjusted Nielsen report Tuesday, printed on Could 2.
The reside efficiency — her first in additional than 5 years — attracted 121.017 million viewers throughout the Feb. 12-dated broadcast. The unique scores put her halftime present at 118.7 million viewers. With the bounce of practically 3 million, Rihanna’s present surpassed Katy Perry’s 2015 efficiency, which beforehand held the report with 121 million viewers.
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Nielsen’s revised report concerning Tremendous Bowl LVII between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles additionally makes this yr’s huge sport the most-watched Tremendous Bowl in historical past. In accordance with the Related Press, Nielsen revised this yr’s unique sport scores determine of 113.1 million by 2 million “after a assessment that exposed encoding irregularities in addition to points with out-of-home measurement.”
“There have been two separate points, every of them accounting for a further a million viewers,” Mike Mulvihill, Fox Sports activities government vp and head of technique and analytics, defined in an interview with Selection.
The brand new 115.1 million determine breaks the report that was beforehand set by the 2015 Tremendous Bowl between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, which had 114.442 million viewers (not together with streaming).
In the course of the singer’s now history-making efficiency at Glendale, Ariz.’s State Farm Stadium, she not solely revealed she was pregnant together with her and associate A$AP Rocky‘s second baby, however she additionally carried out her Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 1 hits like “Solely Woman (within the World),” “We Discovered Love,” “S&M,” “Impolite Boy,” “Work” and extra. Forward of her huge evening, Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty lingerie and clothes model bought “Rihanna live performance interrupted by a soccer sport, bizarre however no matter” T-shirts as a part of its sport day assortment. And contemplating tens of millions extra folks tuned into her “live performance” than the sport, there’s fact to that slogan.
Rihanna has been racking up main accomplishments in current months. “We Discovered Love” was licensed Diamond by the RIAA, shifting her as much as third on the checklist of artists with probably the most licensed models in digital singles. She now stands behind Drake (184) and Eminem (166).
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