Beyoncé may look like a million dollars, but according to recent reports, she won’t be making a red cent for her Super Bowl Sunday Halftime Show performance.
The multi-platinum singer--and, reportedly, her fellow bandmates from Destiny’s Child--will not be recieving a performance fee for the show on Feb. 3 in New Orleans, La., an NFL spokesperson told The Daily Mail this week.
On the contrary, Beyoncé will actually be paying to perform at the Super Bowl. The NFL will be paying only for production costs, which should reportedly cost around $600,000.
While there isn’t word yet on exactly how much the Houston-born diva will pay to sing at the Big Game, Madonna’s set last year cost roughly $1 million, just to give an idea of how much Beyoncé could be paying.
So, what would Beyoncé be getting out of the deal? For starters, the biggest publicity platform on television.
The audience for Super Bowl XLVI last year reached a record 113.4 million viewers nationwide, according to Nielsen ratings for the game. That will come in handy for the megastar singer, whose group Destiny’s Child recently released a new song, “Nuclear,” their first song since their breakup in 2006.
Their new album, “Love Songs” was released on Tuesday.
Whether or not Destiny’s Child will perform alongside Beyonce for the Halftime Show, all eyes will be tuning in to see if she can surpass the dynamic performance that Madonna gave during last year’s Super Bowl, which drew the highest ratings for a halftime show ever, 114 million, during a Super Bowl that will be remembered as a classic when the New York Giants trumped the New England Patriots in their Super Bowl rematch from four years earlier.
Latinos Post takes a look at some of the halftime shows that took place during the Top Five Super Bowls of All Time.
5. Super Bowl XXXIV, 2000, St. Louis Rams vs. Tennessee Titans
It was a battle of wills between two of the most dynamic quarterbacks in the game at that time, St. Louis quarterback Kurt Warner and Tennessee’s Steve “Air” McNair.
While the Rams and their record-breaking offense, nicknamed the Greatest Show on Turf, held a 16-0 lead midway through the third quarter, but the Titans rallied to score 16 unanswered points to tie the game with 2:12 left in the final quarter. But the Rams would not be denied, Warner throwing a 73-yard bomb to wide receiver Isacc Bruce for the touchdown to regain the lead. Tennessee had one last chance, driving to St. Louis’ 10-yard line with six seconds left. But the Titans’ Kevin Dyson was tackled one--yes, one--yard short of the end zone as time ran out to prevent a game-tying touchdown that left Tennessee heartbroken and sent St. Louis into jubilation as they won their first and only Super Bowl.
The halftime show was pretty good, too. Amid a colorful pageantry of dancers and sets from Disney, Latin superstars Enrique Iglesias and Christina Aguilera performed a soulful duet, “Celebrate the Future Hand in Hand” while Phil Collins sung his song “Two Worlds” from the Disney animated film “Tarzan” and Toni Braxton was joined by Iglesias and Aguilera to cap the show with “We Go On.”
4. Super Bowl XXV, 1991, New York Giants vs. Buffalo Bills
In what would be a historic moment for the halftime show--the first Super Bowl to ever feature live music acts--Super Bowl XXV between the Giants and the Bills at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Fla., would prove to be one for the ages.
The Giants, fresh off an improbable NFC Championship win against the defending two-time champion San Francisco 49ers, were heavy underdogs against the 13-3 Bills, who had defeated them in the regular season. Using a game plan drawn up by defensive guru Bill Belichek and Tom Coughlin--who would meet as rivals in two Super Bowls decades later--the Giants kept control of the ball for over 40 minutes and had a 20-19 lead with four seconds left in the game. Not done yet, the Bills had a chance to win the game with a 32-yard field goal, but Buffalo kicker Scott Norwood’s kick sailed wide right and the Giants sealed the deal on a 20-19 win in a memorable Super Bowl.
For the Halftime Show, which had been comprised of primarily marching bands and performing acts, it would mark the first time that mainstream music acts would be a part of the show. The first of these acts? The iconic boy band “New Kids on the Block,” who performed their smash hits “Step By Step” and “This One’s for the Children” to a raucous crowd in Tampa.
3. Super Bowl XXXVIII, 2003, New England Patriots vs. Carolina Panthers
A memorable game highlighted by perhaps the most controversial halftime show of all time.
In a deadlocked contest between two great teams, the Patriots and Panthers went back and forth for three quarters until the score was tied at 29. Ultimately, just as it had two years before when New England won its first-ever Super Bowl, it all came down to a clutch field goal kick from Adam Vinatieri, who nailed a 41-yarder with four seconds left to get New England its second Super Bowl in three years.
But even with a game that epic, the halftime show stole the show when Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake performed onstage. After a medley of Jackson’s greatest hits, Timberlake joined Jackson in a duet of Timberlake’s smash hit “Rock Your Body.” At the lyric “Gonna have you naked by the end of this song,” Timberlake ripped part of Jackson’s top off, exposing her right breast. The moment was dubbed a “wardrobe malfunction” and drew heavy controversy towards the NFL, CBS, which aired the show, and MTV, who produced the show.
2. Super Bowl XXXVI, 2009, Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals
Santonio Holmes’s tip-toeing catch was the indelible moment that fans will remember from this wild see-sawing game at Raymond Jones Stadium in Tampa, Fla.
The Steelers were leading by 10 points by half time, 17-7, but the Cardinals fought back with 16 unanswered points, Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner connecting with wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald for a 64-yard touchdown pass to take the lead 23-20 with 2:37 left in the game. Yet the Steelers’ quarterback Ben Roethlisberger led Pittsburg on a memorable 78-yard drive that culminated with a miracle catch in the end zone from Roethlisberger to Holmes, who caught the ball on his tip-toes and managed to stay in bounds with 35 seconds left to seal an incredible win and the Steelers’ record sixth Super Bowl championship.
The game wasn’t the only classic act to rock Tampa, as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band jammed to hits such as “Born to Run” “Working on a Dream” and their 1984 smash “Glory Days,” an appropriate song on a night where the NFL’s brightest shined in all their glory.
1. Super Bowl XLII, 2008, New York Giants vs. New England Patriots
It wasn’t supposed to happen.
The New York Giants, who surged into the playoffs after a slow start and kept beating heavily favored opponents such as the NFC East Champion Cowboys and the Brett Favre-led Green Bay Packers in the NFC title game, were supposed to be blown out by an undefeated, 18-0 Tom Brady-led New England Patriots in what supposed to be the coronation of maybe the greatest NFL team ever assembled for a season.
Instead, quarterback Eli Manning, with his Giants behind 14-10 with just over 2 minutes remaining, escaped what supposed to be a game-ending tackle and threw a 32-yard miracle pass to wide receiver David Tyree, who clamped the ball to his helmet with one hand. Four plays and a Plaxico Burress touchdown later with 35 seconds left, the Giants shattered New England’s shot at the perfect season and completed arguably the greatest upset in Super Bowl history with a 17-14 win for New York’s third-ever Super Bowl title.
The theme of the game could have easily been summed up in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ hit “Won’t Back Down,” which was one of several hits that the legendary rock band sung on stage for the halftime show that rocked the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.