The viewership numbers are in for Beyoncé Knowles-Carter‘s NFL Christmas halftime performance, which was held at NRG Stadium in her Houston hometown.
Netflix revealed in a press release Thursday that over 27M Americans tuned in live to watch the 43-year-old pop diva’s 15-minute, eight-song medley – according to Nielsen.
Of that group, 24.3M average minute audience were watching the football game where the Baltimore Ravens absolutely creamed the Houston Texans 31-2.
However, Beyoncé amᴀssed far more – 110.8M – in 2013 when she headlined Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans alongside her Destiny’s Child bandmates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.
Knowles-Carter scored even more – 115.5M – in 2016 when she got in ‘Formation’ with Super Bowl 50 headliners Coldplay in Santa Clara, CA alongside featured guests Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson.
By comparison, on February 11, Super Bowl LVIII became the most watched program in American TV history with 129.3M tuning into see headliner Usher rollerskate in Paradise, NV.
The viewership numbers are in for Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s NFL Christmas halftime performance, which was held at NRG Stadium in her Houston hometown
The 32-time Grammy winner enlisted her 12-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter to serve back-up dancer duties, and she also had Post Malone and Shaboozey join her on the field.
Queen Bey raised eyebrows using a finger-gun gesture just as a big ‘Bang’ banner unfurled beneath her platform, a move which is illegal for NFL players to make on the field.
Beyoncé Bowl will be available for all Netflix subscribers as a standalone special ‘later this week.’
Knowles-Carter easily scored the alleged $20M-paying gig considering her beleaguered husband Jay-Z was appointed to be the NFL’s live music entertainment strategist and executive producer of the halftime show by Roger Goodell in 2019.
The 55-year-old Roc Nation founder (born Shawn Carter) is in the midst of a legal war against attorney Tony Buzbee, whose Alabama client accused him of raping her, at age 13, in 2000 alongside Diddy in a civil lawsuit.
In a new filing Thursday, New York judge Analisa Torres scolded Jay-Z’s lawyer Alex Spiro for being ‘combative’ and ‘inflammatory’ for attempting to ‘fast-track’ the judicial process, and she ruled Jane Doe can ‘remain anonymous for this stage of the litigation.’
‘We are aware of the civil allegations and Jay-Z’s really strong response to that,’ the 65-year-old NFL commissioner defended at a December 11th press conference.
‘We know, obviously, that litigation is happening. But from our standpoint, our relationship is not changing with them, including our preparations for the next Super Bowl.’
The married couple of 16 years – worth a combined $3B – originally met back in 1998, and they’re also proud parents of seven-year-old fraternal twins, son Sir Carter and daughter Rumi Carter
