Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga, who won a combined five Grammys exactly one week ago, brought their talents to the Super Bowl LX halftime show at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday (Feb. 8). This brings to 23 the number of Super Bowl halftime performers who have won Grammys that same year.
The fairly high degree of overlap isn’t surprising, really. When you’re hot, you’re hot, as Jerry Reed put it in a 1971 hit. The producers of the halftime show are looking to book the hottest show they can. And being hot never hurt your chances of winning a Grammy (though the Recording Academy asks its voting members to focus strictly on artistic merit).
Bad Bunny’s three Grammys included album of the year for Debí Tirar Más Fotos. Several previous halftime performers also won in Big Four categories on Music’s Biggest Night in years they played what has become the world’s biggest stage. Tony Bennett was on the halftime show in 1995, one month before he won album of the year for MTV Unplugged. Christina Aguilera was on the halftime show in 2000, three weeks before she won a Grammy as best new artist.
U2 headlined the halftime show in 2002, a few weeks before they won record of the year for “Walk On.” Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson were featured during Coldplay’s halftime show in 2016, just a week before they won record of the year for “Uptown Funk!” And Anderson .Paak was featured during the all-star hip-hop Super Bowl halftime show in 2022, about two months before he and Mars won record of the year at the pandemic-delayed Grammys for their Silk Sonic collab, “Leave the Door Open.”
Gaga’s Grammy wins on Feb. 1 were for best pop vocal album and best dance pop recording.
Here are all the performers who won Grammys and performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in the same year.
