Super Bowl 2026 halftime show live: What time are Bad Bunny and Green Day on, where to watch and who’s singing the national anthem

As Bad Bunny prepares to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, Cardi B says she’s proud to see him step onto the world’s biggest stage, praising his cultural impact and willingness to speak out during heightened immigration arrests.

“I’m proud of everything that he’s been standing up for against ICE and everything,” Cardi B told The Associated Press ahead of her performance at Michael Rubin’s star-studded Fanatics Super Bowl Party on Saturday, which featured performances by SZA, Don Toliver and Travis Scott.

The Grammy winner spoke with admiration and unity about Bad Bunny, who appeared with J Balvin on her chart-topping hit, “I Like It.” The collaboration helped propel Latin music further into the global mainstream.

“It just feels like everything is aligned right now,” said Cardi B, who is of Afro-Caribbean descent with roots in Trinidad and the Dominican Republic. “It just shows how Hispanics, Latinos. … We standing. They standing. We all standing.”

With Super Bowl buzz swirling around “I Like It” and the possibility of surprise guests, Cardi B was asked what it would mean to share the stage with Bad Bunny on such a massive platform.

“That’d be exciting,” she said.

The Puerto Rican singer became the first artist in history to win the Grammy’s highest honor for an album written entirely in Spanish. My colleague Tom Murray reports:

Cardi B, Daddy Yankee and Rosalía are some of the superstars rumored to be joining Bad Bunny on pop culture’s biggest stage. Here are the songs we think he could perform…

“I think I speak for Turning Point and all the artists involved, that none of us are approaching this with any hate in our hearts at all,” Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, said Friday during his appearance on Fox & Friends.

My colleague Carsen Holaday has more:

National anthem performances at the Super Bowl have a patchy history, but Charlie Puth is a categorically great singer and especially nerdy when it comes to key and pitch. So he’s pushed back against some grumbling about his upcoming gig, writing on X in December: “I’ll never claim to be as good of a singer as Whitney Houston ever was. But I assure you we’re putting a really special arrangement together – in D major. It’ll be one of my best performances.”

I’m inclined to believe him, even if I am very un-fussed about the anthem itself.

Last year, Kendrick Lamar blew people away with a fiery halftime show that shattered viewing records for the event to become the most-watched performance in NFL history. We’re sure Drake was fine with that.

Anyway, here’s Mark Beaumont’s glowing five-star review – he’s back tonight to review Bad Bunny’s set.

The Seattle Seahawks battle the New England Patriots, with attention on the half-time show, performed by Bad Buddy, in San Francisco.

My colleague Jack Rathborn has everything you need to know about the game itself (my concern, of course, is the halftime show).

You can safely predict that the MAGA version of the Super Bowl halftime show will pale in comparison to what will undoubtedly be a colourful, joyous, celebratory performance from Bad Bunny tonight.

Here’s what we know about the so-called “All-American Halftime Show”, organised by right-wing political organisation Turning Point.

Green Day have never shied away from making political statements — and the outspoken rock band’s upcoming performance at this year’s Super Bowl is likely to be no exception.

This week, the NFL tapped the longtime Trump critics to perform a special 60th anniversary Super Bowl tribute during the game’s opening ceremony. The rock trio, comprised of Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool, is expected to perform a handful of their best-known hits, while previous Super Bowl MVPs are welcomed onto the field.

Here’s what Green Day have said about Trump and MAGA:

There was literally no science behind this, but based off of his biggest songs, my own personal favourites and the songs I felt, theme-wise, might work best for a celebration of Puerto Rican and Latin American culture, here’s my setlist prediction for tonight’s halftime show by Bad Bunny:

• “EoO”
• “BAILE INoLVIDABLE”
• “Callaita”
• “Tití Me Preguntó”
• “VOY A LLeVARTE PA PR”
• “PERRO NEGRO”
• “El Apagón”
• “Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii”
• “LA NOCHE DE ANOCHE”
• “NUEVAYoL”
• “LA MuDANZA”
• “La Santa”
• “Una Velita”
• “I Like It”
• “KLOuFRENS”
• “Si Veo a Tu Mamá”
• “DtMF”