Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show had more viewers than the Game Itself. Over 5 million more people tuned in to her performance.
Rihanna‘s return to the stage was described as an unimaginable spectacle for fans around the world.
As one entertainment writer put it, while the Super Bowl itself often garners a great deal of attention already, many tuned in specifically for RihRih’s performance of a lifetime and for some, it was just a football game that happened around Rihanna’s concert.
And, the numbers appear to say that most viewers watched for that reason.
Rihanna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show brought in 118.7 million viewers. According to FOX Sports’ data, Super Bowl LVII surpassed its own milestones, becoming the third-most watched TV show ever, the most-watched Super Bowl in six years, the most-streamed Super Bowl ever and the most-streamed event in FOX Sports history with a total of 113 million viewers.
The inaugural Apple Music sponsored halftime show headlined by Rihanna, garnered over five million more viewers to beat the game’s ratings. The performance is now the second-most watched halftime show on record with Katy Perry’s halftime show in 2015 pulling better numbers.
