Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show 2026 (YouTube video, information, and two excerpts of reviews of that show)

news.com.au, Feb. 8, 2026
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Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6FuWd4wNd8 for the complete NFL  and Mundo NFL video of Bad Bunny's 2026 Super Bowl Halftime show. That  video is prohibited from being embedded on another website.

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Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest update - February 10, 2026

This pancocojams post showcases a link to a YouTube video of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show 2026 (full video, information about the Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny., and two article excerpts of that Halftime show.

This post also includes information about the results of that Super Bowl game.

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Thanks to Bad Bunny for his musical and cultural legacy. Thanks to all those who participated in that Super Bowl Halftime show and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post. Thanks also to the publisher of this video on YouTube.
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From https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47822193/2026-super-bowl-lx-patriots-seahawks-live-highlights-results "Super Bowl 2026 highlights: Seahawks capture second Lombardi with 29-13 win over Patriots"

ESPN staff, Feb 8, 2026, 10:46 PM ET

"SANTA CLARA -- For the second time in franchise history, the Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl champions.

Led by their defense and Super Bowl MVP running back Kenneth Walker III, the Seahawks stymied the New England Patriots 29-13 in Super Bowl LX. Nicknamed the "Dark Side," the Seahawks' defense wreaked havoc on regular-season MVP runner-up quarterback Drake Maye, sacking him six times and forcing him to turn the ball over three times."...

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INFORMATION ABOUT BAD BUNNY
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Bunny
"Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio …; born March 10, 1994), known professionally as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican[a] rapper, singer, record producer, and occasional professional wrestler.[4] Dubbed the "King of Latin Trap", Bad Bunny is credited with helping Spanish-language rap music achieve mainstream popularity worldwide. He is considered one of the best Latin rappers of all time.[5][6]

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El Último Tour Del Mundo (2020), Bad Bunny's third solo album, became the first all-Spanish language album to top the Billboard 200, while its lead single, "Dakiti", reached the top ten of the Hot 100. His fourth solo album, Un Verano Sin Ti (2022), spent 13 weeks atop the Billboard 200, was named the best-performing album of the year, and became the first Spanish-language album to be nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. He followed it with the Billboard 200 number-one albums Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana (2023) and Debí Tirar Más Fotos (2025); the latter became the first Spanish-language album to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. He headlined the Super Bowl LX halftime show in 2026.

His accolades include six Grammy Awards, seventeen Latin Grammy Awards, eight Billboard Music Awards, and thirteen Lo Nuestro Awards. He was crowned Artist of the Year by Billboard in 2022 and 2025. He was the most-streamed artist on Spotify from 2020 to 2022 and 2025; he was second in 2023 and third in 2024. Outside of music, he occasionally performs in professional wrestling. Bad Bunny began making appearances on WWE programming in 2021 and made his in-ring debut at WrestleMania 37. He is a one-time WWE 24/7 Champion and has wrestled at the 2022 Royal Rumble and the 2023 Backlash pay-per-view events. Bad Bunny has also starred in multiple films, including Bullet Train (2022), Cassandro (2023), Caught Stealing (2025), and Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)."...

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TWO REVIEWS OF BAD BUNNY'S SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW

These excerpts are given in no particular order and ae numbered for referencing purposes only.

EXCERPT REVIEW #1
From https://apnews.com/article/bad-bunny-super-bowl-2026-halftime-show-review-fbcd3dff50a4c6b0548bfa4712677eb0 "Review: Bad Bunny brought Puerto Rico’s history and culture to a revolutionary Super Bowl show" by Maria Sherman, February 8, 2026
"The sun hung low when Bad Bunny emerged in Puerto Rico’s sugar cane fields during his halftime show, surrounded by jíbaros in pavas (rural farmers in traditional straw hats), viejitos playing dominos (an affectionate term for older men) and a piragua stand (shaved ice) — undeniable symbols of Puerto Rico.

From a small Caribbean island with a complicated colonial history, to the world: The artist born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio brought Puerto Rican culture to the Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, for his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show in what was always going to be a landmark moment for Latinos.

He started with his huge reggaeton-and-then-some hits, “Tití Me Preguntó” moving into “Yo Perreo Sola,” as he remerged on top of the casita (“little house”) from his Puerto Rican residency — Cardi B, Jessica Alba, Pedro Pascal, Karol G, Young Miko, Ronald Acuña Jr., Alix Earle and Dave Grutman were guests at his pari de marquesina (“house party.”)

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For around 13 minutes during the halftime show sponsored by Apple Music and Roc Nation, all eyes on the field — and around the world — were on Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio.

Bad Bunny performed entirely in Spanish — as all of his music is recorded in the language, though he has collaborated with English-language artists. The only English singing came from Gaga.

He did speak in English at the end of the set, however, when he said, “God Bless America,” and then named countries in the Americas: “Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil” and so on, including the United States and Canada — a reminder that while it is common to use “America” as a synonym for the U.S. in the U.S., it is the name used across two continents.

“And my motherland, mi patria, Puerto Rico, seguimos aquí.” In English, “My homeland, Puerto Rico, we are still here.”

Behind him, a screen read “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” in English text, a direct reference to one of his recent speeches at the 2026 Grammys.

He ended with “DtMF” as he walked out of the stadium, joined by musicians with güiros (a percussive instrument made of a hollow gourd) and panderetas (tambourines, a symbol of plena.)

For years, Bad Bunny has been one of the most-streamed artists on the planet. And on Sunday, he made it clear that his global popularity translates seamlessly to the biggest stage in the U.S. (Though he is no stranger to it. He previously appeared during the halftime show at Super Bowl LIV in 2020 alongside Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. He sang in Spanish alongside two artists whose bilingual hits helped usher in a crossover era for Latin music in the ’00s.)

Consider Bad Bunny’s 2026 halftime performance the cherry on top of a huge moment for the 31-year-old global superstar, who just 10 years ago was working at an Econo supermarket in Puerto Rico."

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EXCERPT REVIEW #2
From https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/08/bad-bunny-super-bowl-half-time-show-review "Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl half-time show review – a thrilling ode to Boricua joy"

The Grammy-winning Puerto Rican megastar delivered a powerful, detail-packed performance that paid tribute to his history and teased more greatness for his future

by Stefanie Fernández, 8 Feb 2026 
"When the NFL announced in September that Bad Bunny would perform at the Super Bowl half-time show, the immediate expectation was that Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio would Make a Statement.

There was, of course, backlash from the people who think a performance in Spanish is un-American (all while Puerto Rico remains a US territory). But there was also criticism from those who argued that, post-Kaepernick, there is no performance on an NFL stage that could meaningfully challenge the power whose invitation into its center of capital and nationalism these artists accepted. And as we’ve reached peak Bad Bunny this week, Puerto Ricans have pointed out that many fans’ investment in the island ends with the artist.

Still, 2025’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos was the monumental latest entry in Bad Bunny’s documentation of Puerto Rican struggle. Its sober caution against the erosion of a Puerto Rico for Puerto Ricans amid foreign tax incentives and mass economic displacement; its honoring of Afro-Puerto Rican modes of musical storytelling and resistance in bomba and plena; its 31-show residency at el Coliseo de Puerto Rico in lieu of an international tour brought millions into the island’s economy. All of it was in solemn devotion to never compromising his land, identity or history.

The Super Bowl half-time show is inherently about compromise. But as he kicked off the Benito Bowl, somehow, Benito’s biggest compromise seemed to be the amount of words bleeped out of his verse.

A young man carrying a Puerto Rican flag before a sea of sugarcane opened with a benediction for all of us: “Qué rico es ser Latino. Hoy se bebe,” (“How sweet it is to be Latino. Today we drink”) echoing Benito’s unquestionably most unbroadcastable song (more on this in a moment).

Dressed in white like everyone else – and in a gorgeous bespoke Ocasio jersey-suit-jacket emblazoned with his mother’s birth year, 1964 – Benito proved many Kalshi betters correct with Titi Me Preguntó, the blueprint of Benito’s many-girlfriended persona.

Around him, he’s built an entire ecosystem of community: los viejos playing dominos, street vendors selling coco frío, piraguas, and tacos (sold by Los Angeles’s actual Villa’s Tacos), boxers Xander Zayas and Emiliano Vargas in the fight, a man proposing to his girlfriend just as the femme-forward Yo Perreo Sola starts. “Las mujeres en el mundo entero,” he says, “perreando sin miedo”. (“The women in the whole world, perreando without fear.”) Behind him, at la casita he built in the image of a house on the island, is a yearbook of stars, including but certainly not limited to: Karol G, Pedro Pascal, Cardi B, Jessica Alba, Young Miko, and Alix Earle.

Just when this couldn’t get rowdier, Benito falls through the roof into la casita, disoriented as a mix of reggaetón’s all-time heaviest unfolds, among them Tego Calderón’s Pa’ Que Retozen, Don Omar’s Dale Don, and obviously, Daddy Yankee’s Gasolina, then joined by his own ultraheavy EoO. The show at large is a dizzying reminder of the many pantheons of Puerto Rican legends – in reggaetón, in salsa, in jíbaro music – that Benito is succeeding and never letting history forget.

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Benito delivered on his music’s promise of displaying the reality of Puerto Rican life: in a stunning performance of El Apagón, Benito runs the light-blue flag of Puerto Rican independence across the field, as performers on power lines evoke the frequent blackouts on the island as a result of its decaying energy infrastructure. This somber reminder shifts quickly to the jubilant call-and-response of Café Con Ron as Benito is joined by Los Pleneros de la Cresta.

“God bless America,” Benito proclaims as he progresses to the finish, promptly naming Chile, Argentina, and all of South and Central America and the Caribbean before finishing with the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. “Seguimos aquí,” (“We’re still here”) he closes, spiking a football that says: “Together, we are America.”

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Baked into the politics of Debí Tirar Más Fotos is the immutable condition that Puerto Rico cannot be subsumed into the United States or Americanness; across his discography, he has highlighted the dispossession of Caribbean identity, labor, and jerga (slang) that comes when the American imagination tries to absorb, or blur out of focus, its cultures.

This isn’t Benito’s first time performing at the half-time show. In 2020, he was a guest of Jennifer Lopez and Shakira at Super Bowl LIV in Miami; the performance was at best a defiant celebration of two Latina giants of the 21st century, and with its protest element attributed to the cages dotting the field around them, made a show of Latine oppression at worst. Where did that conversation lead us? And for whose benefit?

A lot of violent realities for our communities continue outside. The Super Bowl will never televise the revolution. But this year, Benito reminded so many of us of the love, the community and the absolute joy that we create together every day in spite of everything else."

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UPDATE- February 10, 2026; Statistics Regarding Number Of Super Bowl Halftime Views

Heather Cox Richardson, February 9, 2026, https://heathercoxrichardson.substack...
"Last night’s thirteen-minute Super Bowl half-time show featuring Bad Bunny had more watchers than any other halftime show in history: an estimated 135 million watched live, while millions more have streamed it since. Rapper, singer, and record producer Bad Bunny, whose given name is ​​Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, is from Puerto Rico, and rocketed to prominence with the release of his first hit single on January 25, 2016. On February 1, 2026, just a week before the halftime show, Bad Bunny made history by being the first artist to win Album of the Year at the Grammys for an album recorded in Spanish."….

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