NFL won't reconsider Bad Bunny for Super Bowl halftime show

Field Level Media
23 Oct 2025, 00:49 GMT+10

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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday that the league will not replace Bad Bunny as its headline performer for the Super Bowl halftime show despite some criticism of the selection.

Goodell validated the league's decision at the NFL's fall meeting for Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, Calif.

'He's one of the leading and most popular entertainers in the world,' Goodell said. 'That's what we try to achieve.'

The artist, whose name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is a native of Puerto Rico, whose lyrics are mostly in Spanish. Since 2019, Bad Bunny has been a top-five streamed artist on the music platform Spotify every year, including the most streams in 2020, 2021 and 2022.

'I'm not sure we've ever selected an artist where we didn't have some blowback or criticism,' Goodell said. 'It's pretty hard to do when you have literally hundreds of millions of people that are watching.'

In a recent interview on the conservative news network Newsmax, President Donald Trump called the selection 'absolutely ridiculous,' while also saying he was not familiar with Bad Bunny.

In 2022, Bad Bunny had 18.5 billion steams on Spotify and was the second-most streamed artist in 2023 and the third most last year. As of this month, Bad Bunny's 100.9 million followers on Spotify are ninth most of any artist on the platform.

'We're confident it's going to be a great show,' Goodell said. 'He understands the platform that he's on, and I think it's going to be exciting and a united moment.'

--Field Level Media

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