Beyoncé to star in NFL half-time show on Christmas Day

Beyoncé has announced she volition execute during the NFL's half-time amusement connected Christmas Day.

The vocalist volition execute arsenic the Houston Texans instrumentality connected the Baltimore Ravens - 1 of 2 fixtures scheduled for that day.

The 2nd lucifer volition spot Kansas City Chiefs play the Pittsburgh Steelers and some matches volition beryllium streamed connected Netflix.

It volition beryllium the archetypal clip Beyoncé has performed tracks from her latest album, Cowboy Carter, which she archetypal revealed during February's Super Bowl.

She released singles Texas Hold 'Em and 16 Carriages instantly aft appearing successful an advert during the game, and dropped Cowboy Carter successful March.

The album, which includes duets with Miley Cyrus and Post Malone, leans into the state genre and is the 2nd of a planned trilogy that started with Renaissance.

It is nominated for Album of the Year astatine 2025's Grammy Awards, wherever Beyoncé's up for a further 10 trophies including champion state medium and opus of the twelvemonth for Texas Hold 'Em.

The vocalist announced the half-time amusement with posts connected her socials wherever she's seen catching a shot portion lasting connected a classical American car covered successful roses, each portion wearing her signature cowboy hat.

Netflix has besides teased that the singer's expected to "bring on immoderate peculiar guests" who featured connected her latest release.

It won't beryllium the archetypal clip Beyoncé's starred successful a half-time show, having headlined the Super Bowl successful 2013 and performed alongside Coldplay and Bruno Mars successful 2016 - the astir watched half-time amusement ever.

Christmas Day games person go a staple of the NFL calendar since archetypal launching successful the 1980s.

In May, Netflix announced it had signed a woody to broadcast NFL games up to 2026 arsenic portion of a thrust to grow into sports.

"Last year, we decided to instrumentality a large stake connected live," the streaming platform's main contented officer, Bela Bajaria, said.

"There are nary unrecorded yearly events, sports oregon otherwise, that comparison with the audiences NFL shot attracts."

On Friday, Netflix streamed boxing for the archetypal clip with a unrecorded combat betwixt heavyweight fable Mike Tyson and YouTuber Jake Paul.

It said 60 cardinal households streamed the combat astir the world, but immoderate complained astir it crashing.

NFL fans successful competing squad cities volition inactive beryllium capable to ticker the lucifer connected broadcast TV and they'll besides beryllium disposable to watercourse connected the NFL+ app successful the US.

NFL bosses accidental the woody with Netflix is simply a bully accidental to unfastened the crippled up to fans extracurricular of the US too.

"We couldn’t beryllium much excited to beryllium the archetypal nonrecreational sports league to spouse with Netflix to bring unrecorded games to fans astir the world,” Hans Schroeder, the NFL's enforcement vice president of media distribution, said.

"The NFL connected Christmas has go a contented and to spouse with Netflix, a work whose biggest time of the twelvemonth is typically this holiday, is the cleanable operation to turn this lawsuit globally for NFL fans."