{"id":3882,"date":"2026-07-19T20:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2026-07-19T20:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T20:37:32","slug":"madonna-justin-bieber-bts-shakira-headline-jam-packed-first-ever-fifa-world-cup-final-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"Madonna, Justin Bieber, BTS, Shakira Headline Jam-Packed First-Ever FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nMadonna, BTS, Justin Bieber and Shakira headlined the first-ever FIFA World Cup Finals Halftime Show on Sunday, playing a packed 11-minute mega-mix that also featured Burna Boy, the New York Philharmonic\u2019s Gustavo Dudamel and The Muppets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3880\">Anne Hathaway Reveals \u2018Princess Diaries 3\u2019 Update: \u201cWe Had a Story Breakthrough\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tMadonna kicked off the show, throttling through the New York New Jersey stadium tunnels in a dune buggy, fittingly driven by renowned Brazilian soccer players Ronaldo and Ronaldinho.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe pre-recorded entrance led into the pop star singing a new version of her 2000 hit \u201cMusic\u201d before handing over the baton to conductor Gustavo Dudamel. He led musicians from the New York Philharmonic and Venezuela\u2019s Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Symphony Orchestra in a rendition of \u201cSeven Nation Army,\u201d with Iranian violinist Bijan Mortazavi and The Muppets\u2019 rock group Electric Mayhem, in one of several Muppets appearances.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tK-pop superstars BTS took to the pitch with a football-inspired performance of their hit \u201cDynamite,\u201d with a lead in from a video of Norway\u2019s rowing chant and rewritten lyrics for the halftime show. Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt then popped up on field in character as Ted Lasso and Coach Beard from their Apple TV series, as they encouraged Justin Bieber before he took the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBieber then took the volume down with a soulful rendition of his 2025 song \u201cEverything Hallelujah,\u201d before handing it over to Shakira and Burna Boy, who brought the noise back up and performed the official song of the FIFA World Cup \u201cDai Dai,\u201d alongside Uganda\u2019s Ghetto Kids, dancing in a sea of yellow costumes. Off-camera a group of rainbow-shirted schoolchildren snuck onto the field to ready for the finale. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe schoolchildren, from Staten Island\u2019s PS22, were joined by Coldplay, more Muppets, and Australian singer-songwriter Emmanuel Kelly, who debuted \u201cWe Dance,\u201d an original song written by Coldplay for the halftime show. The pitch, which was covered by a rainbow-colored tarp to protect the grass, was filled with dancers holding colorful balls, as fans in the stadiu, waved the colorful flags found in all the seats. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe halftime programming was curated by Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin and produced by Global Citizen, which has a goal of raising $100 million for the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, with $1 from each ticket throughout the World Cup donated to the fund.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3878\">How to Livestream the World Cup Halftime Show With BTS, Bieber, Madonna and Shakira<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 80,000-capacity New York New Jersey stadium was packed with few empty seats in the sea of red and white and blue at the final matchup of Spain versus Argentina. President Trump was a confirmed attendee, with celebrities including Pharell, Matt Damon, Adrien Brody and Will Ferrell also spotted in the crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis marked Bieber\u2019s first public performance since his much-discussed headlining set at Coachella back in April and came on the heels of Madonna\u2019s new dance-pop album <em>Confessions II<\/em> and amid the Arirang world tour for K-Pop band BTS, which is returning to touring after band members took a three-year hiatus to complete mandatory military service.\u00a0BTS arrived in New York this morning after perfroming a show last night at Paris\u2019s Stade de France.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLive Nation and Done + Dusted also served as producers on the show. In an interview before the show, executive producer Guy Carrington of Done+Dusted said the team had spent \u201cmonths and months preparing this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was always about bringing together the world\u2019s top performers and creating a real moment of collaboration and unity,\u201d Carrington told <em>THR<\/em> .<\/p>\n<p>Post Malone headlined the pre-show, which began 90 minutes before kickoff, singing \u201cCrome Heartbreaker.\u201d Also appearing was iShowSpeed, who danced across an image of the Empire State Building and reminded the crowd \u201cThis is the World Cup.\u201d Special care was taken to try to protect the grass field, with a crew spreading a larger covering of the New York City skyline over the field for the pre-show, and sprinklers turned on after the performance.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBefore the match, Nicole Scherzinger and Laura Pausini joined Robbie Williams to sing \u201cDesire,\u201d the official FIFA anthem penned by Williams, with Jennifer Hudson singing the U.S. national anthem. Williams escorted Scherzinger and Pausini off the pitch, hand in hand, before the national anthems from Spain and Argentina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTom Cruise also came onto the pitch to give a speech about the importance of the sport, stating \u201cFootball has no language,\u201d while the crowd\u2019s chanting of \u201cOl\u00e9, Ol\u00e9, Ol\u00e9\u201d continued, uninterrupted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=3876\">John Leguizamo Has Never Been as Vulnerable as in \u2018The Odyssey\u2019: \u201cIt Was So Intense for Me\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global superstars Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber and Shakira headlined the first-ever FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show at Metlife Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[333,1581,805,1161,2689],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-bts","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-justin-bieber","tag-madonna","tag-shakira"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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