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Justin Bieber, Madonna, BTS, and Shakira had everyone connected their feet during nan FIFA World Cup 2026 last halftime show.
The superstars co-headlined nan halftime show Sunday astatine nan MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, which was curated by Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.
Madonna took nan shape first, singing her iconic 2000 deed “Music” pinch dancers roller skating astir her, earlier dramatically stepping retired of a passageway and stepping onto nan field.
Her capacity transitioned into nan Muppets’ Animal playing nan drums to nan White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army.”
BTS kept nan precocious power going pinch a capacity of “Dynamite,” earlier Jason Sudeikis made a astonishment capacity arsenic his beloved characteristic Ted Lasso to present Justin Bieber.
Bieber sang his deed “Everything Hallelujah” acoustic while playing guitar, giving nan crowd flawless vocals.
Shakira past took nan shape pinch Burna Boy to singing “Dai Dai,” shaking her hips and bringing nan power backmost up.
Lastly, Coldplay besides took nan shape on pinch Gustavo Dudamel and PS22 Chorus — a viral choir of 4th and 5th graders from New York — to adjacent nan show. The children each wore colorful jerseys and danced energetically arsenic “Love” pinch a globe was spelled retired connected nan field.
The capacity marked nan first halftime show successful FIFA World Cup history.
The star-studded show supported the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, an inaugural moving to raise $100 cardinal to grow entree to value acquisition and shot for children worldwide. The Education Fund has already raised complete $50 million, and $1 from each summons sold to FIFA World Cup 2026 matches was donated passim nan tournament.
Martin announced nan halftime show capacity successful May, pinch an adorable video featuring “Sesame Street” icons Elmo and Cookie Monster, arsenic good arsenic nan Muppets’ Kermit nan Frog, Miss Piggy, and Animal. The video showed Martin and Elmo asking BTS members Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook via FaceTime if they wanted to subordinate nan halftime show performance.
“It’s a chance to show really astonishing each different types of humans are,” Martin says successful nan heartwarming video.
“This show is much astir ‘we’ than ‘me,'” he later shares. “I mean, it’s astir togetherness, really.”
The FIFA World Cup 2026 last featured a lucifer betwixt Argentina and Spain to triumph nan tournament. Argentina hit England past Wednesday to beforehand to nan final, leaving celeb fans for illustration David Beckham devastated successful nan stands.
Beckham’s 21-year-old son, Cruz, was snapped comforting his dada successful nan stands astatine Atlanta Stadium successful Georgia, giving him a large hug.
A spot astatine nan World Cup Final has been a basking commodity moreover amid A-listers, pinch sources telling Page Six that tickets were almost “impossible” to get ahead of nan match.
Tickets “have go 1 of nan toughest gets successful town, while hotels, restaurants and backstage clubs are being overwhelmed by athletes, entertainers, executives and sponsors arriving for nan week,” a sports and intermezo insider told us.
Veteran sports arena marketer David Spencer noted that sports events for illustration nan World Cup are now rivaling different awesome intermezo gatherings successful scale.
“Artists want to perform, brands want to entertain their apical clients, and executives and celebrities want to beryllium successful nan aforesaid rooms,” he said.
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