Here's how many people really watched Bad Bunny's halftime show

Bad Bunnymademusic historywith hisSuper Bowl halftime showperformance, and now he has the hard facts to back it up.

The reggaeton superstar, whoheadlined Apple Music's Super Bowl LX Halftime Showin February, set a new record after global viewership numbers were tallied, Roc Nationannounced in a press releaseon Monday, March 2.

According to the Jay-Z-run entertainment company, which oversees the halftime show, Bad Bunny's halftime performance brought in 4.157 billion views globally within 24 hours. The viewership figure includes global and U.S. broadcast, YouTube and digital properties.

The singer's Feb. 8 halftime show averaged 128.2 million viewers in the U.S., NBC Sports previously reported, trailing behindKendrick Lamar's 2025 performance. But with the global viewership total, Bad Bunny now has the most-watched halftime show performance of all time, per Roc Nation.

Fresh off a historic win at the Grammys, Bad Bunny headlines the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show Feb. 8, 2026. See the photos.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Lady Gaga perform a salsa-inspired rendition of "Die with a Smile" at Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show.

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" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny performs during the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, California.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> From left: Pedro Pascal, Karol G and Cardi B perform onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium on Feb. 8, 2026, in Santa Clara, California.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny performs alongside Jessica Alba, Alix Earle and David Grutman during the Super Bowl halftime show.

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" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> A real-life couple got married during Bad Bunny's halftime show performance at the Super Bowl.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Lady Gaga performs a salsa-inspired "Die with a Smile"

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Bad Bunny performs with power line props to signify the issues Puerto Rico went through during multiple hurricanes.

" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> Performers wave the flags of sovereign countries in the Americas at the conclusion of Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny's performance during Super Bowl LX Patriots vs Seahawks Apple Music Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California on Feb. 8, 2026.

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" style="max-width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:6px; margin:10px 0;" loading="lazy" /> A message is displayed while Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs during the Super Bowl LX Patriots vs Seahawks Apple Music Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

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Bad Bunny's vibrant halftime show was unforgettable. See it up close

Fresh off a historic win at the Grammys,Bad Bunnyheadlines the Apple Music Super Bowl LXHalftime ShowFeb. 8, 2026. See the photos.

Bad Bunny's performance, which includedvarious homages to Puerto Rican cultureand guest appearances fromLady GagaandRicky Martin, offered an "invigorating" presentation, USA TODAY music critic Melissa Ruggieripreviously wrote.

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"Bad Bunny guaranteed one thing about his Super Bowl performance: the rhythm is gonna get you," Ruggieri wrote. "The global music titan delivered on his promise during his 13-minute halftime spectacle, ... commanding the stage with swagger and unapologetic authenticity."

The Super Bowl feat punctuates Bad Bunny's meteoric rise to global stardom since his 2016 debut.

The Puerto Rican singer's latest album, "Debí Tirar Más Fotos," earned him ahistoric Grammy Awardwin for album of the year in February, becoming the first Spanish-language album to take the coveted prize.

Additionally, the album's title trackrecently hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Bad Bunny his first solo No. 1 on the all-genre chart. The song also became the first predominantly Spanish-language song by a solo act to top the Hot 100 in the chart's nearly 70-year history.

Contributing: KiMi Robinson, USA TODAY

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Bad Bunny makes history with most watched Super Bowl halftime show

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This day in history: “People” Magazine launches

March 4, 1974, marks the release of the first issue of People magazine. Actress Mia Farrow appeared on the cover of the inaugural issue.

Richard Stolley, former assistant managing editor of Life Magazine, founded People. Stolley emphasized that he wanted to focus on "the headliners, the stars, the important doers, the comers, and plenty of ordinary men and women caught up in extraordinary situations." His vision was to spotlight people's lives.

Thefirst issueprofiled William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist; designer Gloria Vanderbilt; and Marina Oswald, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassin. It cost 35 cents and was printed in black and white, except for the cover. The issue sold 1.4 million copies.

Before its official launch in 1974, the magazine produced a "dummy" test issue featuring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on the cover. Stolley circulated the issue among the male staff, who described it as"journalistic popcorn."He then contacted Clare Boothe Luce, the widow of Time Inc. co-founder Henry R. Luce, who tested it at her hair salon.

The magazine found success among women and on newsstands. ​"It is bound to be the best-read magazine in any hairdressing salon in America—and in any doctor's or dentist's waiting room." ​The intention was that "it will probably be read from cover to cover, because reading it is like eating peanuts—you can't stop once you begin."

Because the senior editorial staff was predominantly male, Stolley hired Shirley Estabrook as deputy news editor. After Stolley eventually left the magazine, Pat Ryan succeeded him, becoming the second woman to serve as a Time Inc. managing editor.

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The magazine has continued to feature singers, actors, royals, and more. It is most notable for lists such as "The 100 Most Beautiful People" and "Sexiest Man Alive." People is known for bringing entertainment and celebrity news to mainstream media, inspiring other magazines such as Us Weekly and TV celebrity news shows like "Entertainment Tonight."

Currently, People has 32 million weekly magazine readers and 77 million monthly website visitors. For its50th anniversary in 2024, the magazine showcased some of its most iconic cover stars, including Oprah Winfrey, Serena Williams, and Dwayne Johnson. Staying true to its mission of highlighting people's lives, the commemorative issue also revisited individuals who faced extraordinary circumstances, such as Jessica McClure, who survived falling into a well as a baby in 1987, and Jeanne White-Ginder, mother of AIDS activist Ryan White, who passed away in 1990.

Editor in Chief Wendy Naugle wrote in her editor's letter for the issue, "Our goal is to take our readers up close to our subjects so that we can all understand what motivates them and to find the commonality of the human experience, the ups and downs, the tragedies and the triumphs."

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A first repatriation flight brings stranded French citizens home as war in Iran disrupts travel

PARIS (AP) — The first flight repatriating French citizens stranded in the Middle East because of thewar in Iranlanded in Paris early Wednesday.

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French authorities booked about 100 seats onboard for vulnerable people on a priority list, the minister responsible for French Nationals Abroad, Eleonore Caroit, said. The plane departed from Muscat, Oman and made a stop in Cairo, Egypt, before touching down at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, as travel across the region remains heavily disrupted by the widening conflict.

A second flight carrying French citizens, who were based in Israel and managed to cross the border with Egypt, should arrive in France later Wednesday, Caroit said.

"We are focusing on a priority group — families with children, people affected by illness, old people," she told TF1 broadcaster. "Our goal is to help repatriate as quickly as possible the French people who wish to return."

French President Emmanuel Macron said an estimated 400,000 French people are present in the region affected by the conflict, either as residents or temporarily passing through.

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With airspace closed or heavily restricted across much of the Gulf, passengers have been stranded not only in the region but also in cities far from the fighting after their connecting flights were canceled. Amid the travel chaos and with commercial flights limited, governments across the globe have been mounting emergency operations to try to repatriate their citizens.

The United Statestold American citizensto leave more than a dozen countriesin the regionright away using any available commercial transportation. The countries include Iran and Israel, as well as Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

In Europe, the British government said a chartered flight will take off from Oman late Wednesday to bring back some of the thousands of U.K. nationals in the Gulf. It said the most vulnerable will be prioritized for the first of what is expected to be a series of flights.

The Foreign Office said more than 130,000 British nationals in the Middle East have registered their presence with the government since the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict broke out, though not all are trying to leave. Many of those are in the UAE, and the government has advised against trying to travel overland to Oman.

Commercial airlines are also starting to resume some flights, with Etihad, Emirates and Virgin Atlantic all due to operate flights from the UAE to London on Wednesday.

Elsewhere, Norway's Foreign Ministry said it's sending an "emergency team" to Dubai to reinforce the Norwegian embassy's team helping an estimated 1,500 Norwegians registered in the city.

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