Jay-Z will headline the Super Bowl LXI halftime festivities on Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
The NFL, Apple Music, and Roc Nation announced Monday night that Jay-Z will be the featured performer for the Super Bowl LXI halftime show on Feb. 14. The event will take place at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and will be broadcast on ESPN and ABC, with streaming available on Disney+. Roc Nation, which has partnered with the league on entertainment presentations since 2019, will executive produce the performance with Hamish Hamilton directing.
Jay-Z, a 25-time Grammy Award winner, recently concluded a 30th-anniversary celebration of his debut album, "Reasonable Doubt," at the same venue. His previous concerts during that run featured guests including Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Blue Ivy. The rapper and entrepreneur was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2017 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2021.
The Super Bowl LXI performance follows last season’s show headlined by Bad Bunny, which averaged 128.2 million viewers between 8:15 and 8:30 p.m. ET. That broadcast ranks as the fourth-most-watched halftime show, trailing Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 performance, which drew 133.5 million viewers, and Michael Jackson’s 1993 show at 133.4 million.
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