{"id":166649,"date":"2026-05-14T09:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=166649"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:23:58","slug":"bts-shakira-and-madonna-will-headline-the-2026-world-cup-final-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/bts-shakira-and-madonna-will-headline-the-2026-world-cup-final-halftime-show\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS, Shakira, and Madonna will headline the 2026 World Cup final halftime show"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Global Citizen announces the artists<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Global Citizen<\/strong> announced on May 14, 2026, that<strong> Madonna, Shakira, and BTS<\/strong> will perform during halftime at the <strong>2026 FIFA World Cup final<\/strong>. The soccer match will take place on July 19, 2026, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The artists\u2019 performance is expected to last 11 minutes and will be the first halftime show ever held during a World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>See the reveal made by the FIFA World Cup 2026 below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The world&#39;s biggest stage. An even bigger purpose. On July 19, the FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 Final\u00a0Halftime Show is coming to New York New Jersey Stadium, featuring superstars <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Madonna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Madonna<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shakira?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@shakira<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bts_bighit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bts_bighit<\/a> , curated by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coldplay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@coldplay<\/a> \u2018s Chris Martin!<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>A FIFA World Cup first, the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OblQmXTW1M\">pic.twitter.com\/OblQmXTW1M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/2054786131703529490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Shakira, Madonna, and BTS bring music hype<\/h2>\n<p>Shakira has already become a World Cup staple, especially after 2010\u2019s \u201dWaka Waka.\u201d In addition, she is connected to this year\u2019s World Cup through\u00a0 \u201cDai Dai,\u201d her official tournament song with Burna Boy. Meanwhile, Madonna is gearing up for a big moment with the release of her new album \u201cConfessions II,\u201d which is scheduled for July 3, 2026. Finally, BTS is promoting their latest album \u201cARIRANG\u201d\u00a0 with a world tour that began in South Korea before reaching the United States on April 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<h2>The show supports a global education fund<\/h2>\n<p>The halftime show is being curated by Global Citizen and Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin. The event will help raise money for the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund, which aims to collect $100 million for children\u2019s education and football access worldwide. FIFA also announced that other artists such as Katy Perry, Future, Tyla, LISA, and Anitta will perform during opening events in the United States, Mexico, and Canada starting on June 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video with the curation of Coldplay&#8217;s Christ Martin and Global Citizen:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Madonna, Shakira and BTS will co-headline the first-ever FIFA World Cup\u2122 Final Halftime Show at the New York New Jersey Stadium on July 19. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Curated by Coldplay&#39;s Chris Martin and produced by Global Citizen, the show will raise funds for the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rRd5NzypY7\">pic.twitter.com\/rRd5NzypY7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Global Citizen \u2b55 (@GlblCtzn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlblCtzn\/status\/2054774286942917084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Citizen announces the artists Global Citizen announced on May 14, 2026, that Madonna, Shakira, and BTS will perform during halftime at the 2026 FIFA World Cup final. The soccer match will take place on July 19, 2026, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The artists\u2019 performance is expected to last 11 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":166653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,1969],"tags":[49,1539],"tmauthors":[3734],"class_list":{"0":"post-166649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-news","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-shakira"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166656,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166649\/revisions\/166656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166649"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=166649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}