Coldplay as the first artist to be confirmed for the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Global superstars Coldplay, winners of seven Grammy Awards, will perform at the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show on Feb. 7, 2016, the NFL announced today during halftime of the Thursday Night Football game between the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions on CBS and NFL Network.
This announcement is just the beginning. Coldplay front man Chris Martin is designing a show that will echo elements of the NFL’s On the Fifty campaign – honoring the past, recognizing the present and looking ahead to the next 50 years, including other special artists.
Coldplay joins an esteemed list of recent halftime acts including Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Beyoncé, Madonna, The Who, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, U2 and more.
Coldplay is one of the world’s most popular musical acts, selling more than 80 million copies of their six No. 1 albums and garnering eight BRITs. The band’s most recent world tour, 2011/12 Mylo Xyloto, was seen by more than three million people in five continents. Last week the band released their highly anticipated widescreen seventh album, ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’.
The Super Bowl Halftime Show is the most-watched musical event of the year. More than 118.5 million viewers in the U.S. watched last year’s show, marking the most-watched Halftime Show ever. The Super Bowl and Halftime Show will be broadcast worldwide from Levi’s Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area.
HISTORY OF SUPER BOWL HALFTIME ENTERTAINMENT
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SUPER BOWL |
HALFTIME |
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I |
Universities of Arizona and Michigan Bands |
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II |
Grambling University |
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III |
“America Thanks” with Florida A&M University |
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IV |
Carol Channing |
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V |
Florida A&M Band |
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VI |
“Salute to Louis Armstrong” with Ella Fitzgerald, Carol Channing, Al Hirt and U.S. Marine Corps Drill Team |
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VII |
“Happiness Is…” with University of Michigan Band and Woody Herman |
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VIII |
“A Musical America” with University of Texas Band |
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IX |
“Tribute to Duke Ellington” with Mercer Ellington and Grambling University Bands |
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X |
“200 Years and Just a Baby” Tribute to America’s Bicentennial |
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XI |
“It’s a Small World” including crowd participation for first time with spectators waving colored placards on cue |
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XII |
“From Paris to the Paris of America” with Tyler Apache Belles, Pete Fountain and Al Hirt |
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XIII |
“Super Bowl XIII Carnival” Salute to the Caribbean with Ken Hamilton and various Caribbean bands |
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XIV |
“A Salute to the Big Band Era” with Up with People |
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XV |
“A Mardi Gras Festival” |
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XVI |
“A Salute to the 60’s and Motown” |
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XVII |
“KaleidoSUPERscope” (a kaleidoscope of color and sound) |
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XVIII |
“Super Bowl XVIII’s Salute to the Superstars of the Silver Screen” |
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XIX |
“A World of Children’s Dreams” |
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XX |
“Beat of the Future” |
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XXI |
“Salute to Hollywood’s 100th Anniversary” |
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XXII |
“Something Grand” featuring 88 grand pianos, the Rockettes and Chubby Checker |
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XXIII |
“Be Bop Bamboozled” featuring 3-D effects |
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XXIV |
“Salute to New Orleans” and 40th Anniversary of Peanuts’ characters, featuring trumpeter Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw & Irma Thomas |
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XXV |
“A Small World Salute to 25 Years of the Super Bowl” featuring New Kids on the Block |
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XXVI |
“Winter Magic” including a salute to the winter season and the winter Olympics featuring Gloria Estefan, Brian Boitano and Dorothy Hamill |
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XXVII |
“Heal the World” featuring Michael Jackson and 3,500 local children; finale included audience card stunt |
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XXVIII |
“Rockin Country Sunday” featuring Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, Wynonna & Naomi Judd; finale included flashlight stunt |
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XXIX |
“Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye” featuring Tony Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Arturo Sandoval, the Miami Sound Machine and stunts including fire and skydivers; finale included audience participation with light sticks |
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XXX |
Diana Ross celebrating 30 years of the Super Bowl with special effects, pyrotechnics and stadium card stunt; finale featured Diana Ross being taken from the stadium in a helicopter. |
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XXXI |
“Blues Brothers Bash” featuring Dan Akroyd, John Goodman and James Belushi, also featuring “The Godfather of Soul” James Brown and ZZ Top |
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XXXII |
“A Tribute to Motown’s 40th Anniversary” including Boyz II Men, Smokey Robinson, Queen Latifah, Martha Reeves and The Temptations |
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XXXIII |
“Celebration of Soul, Salsa and Swing” featuring Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and tap dancer Savion Glover |
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XXXIV |
“A Tapestry of Nations” featuring Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton and an 80-person choir |
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XXXV |
“The Kings of Rock and Pop” featuring Aerosmith, *N’SYNC, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly |
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XXXVI |
U2 |
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XXXVII |
Shania Twain, No Doubt and Sting |
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XXXVIII |
Janet Jackson, Kid Rock, P. Diddy, Nelly and Justin Timberlake |
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XXXIX |
Paul McCartney |
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XL |
The Rolling Stones |
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XLI |
Prince |
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XLII |
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers |
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XLIII |
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band |
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XLIV |
The Who |
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XLV |
The Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Slash |
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XLVI |
Madonna with guests Cee Lo Green, LMFAO, M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj |
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XLVII |
Beyoncé with guests Destiny’s Child |
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XLVIII |
Bruno Mars with guests Red Hot Chili Peppers |
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XLIX |
Katy Perry with guests Missy Elliott and Lenny Kravitz |
