Rihanna performs on the 2023 Super Bowl – Photo: Adam Bow/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images
Rihanna‘s Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show is formally the most-watched halftime present efficiency of all time, based on an adjusted Nielsen report Tuesday, printed on May 2.
The stay efficiency — her first in additional than 5 years — attracted 121.017 million viewers throughout the Feb. 12-dated broadcast. The authentic scores put her halftime present at 118.7 million viewers. With the bounce of almost 3 million, Rihanna’s present surpassed Katy Perry’s 2015 efficiency, which beforehand held the document with 121 million viewers.
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Nielsen’s revised report relating to Super Bowl LVII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles additionally makes this yr’s large sport the most-watched Super Bowl in historical past. According to the Associated Press, Nielsen revised this yr’s authentic sport scores determine of 113.1 million by 2 million “after a review that revealed encoding irregularities as well as issues with out-of-home measurement.”
“There were two separate issues, each of them accounting for an additional one million viewers,” Mike Mulvihill, Fox Sports govt vp and head of technique and analytics, defined in an interview with Variety.
The new 115.1 million determine breaks the document that was beforehand set by the 2015 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks, which had 114.442 million viewers (not together with streaming).
During 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 accomplice A$AP Rocky‘s second child, but she also performed her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits like “Only Girl (in the World),” “We Found Love,” “S&M,” “Rude Boy,” “Work” and more. Ahead of her big night, Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty lingerie and clothes model bought “Rihanna concert interrupted by a football game, weird but whatever” T-shirts as a part of its sport day assortment. And contemplating hundreds of thousands extra individuals tuned into her “concert” than the sport, there’s fact to that slogan.
Rihanna has been racking up main accomplishments in current months. “We Found Love” was licensed Diamond by the RIAA, shifting her as much as third on the listing of artists with essentially the most licensed items in digital singles. She now stands behind Drake (184) and Eminem (166).
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