Beyoncé performed at the NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, on the NFL halftime show for the Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens game on December 25, 2024. The singer brought out a number of guests during her performance, including Post Malone and Shaboozey.
The setlist for Beyoncé's NFL halftime show is given below:
- 16 Carriages
- Blackbiird (with Tiera Kennedy, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, and Reyna Robert) (cover, original by The Beatles).
- Ya Ya
- My House
- Sweet Honey Buckiin' feat Shaboozey
- Spaghettii feat Shaboozey
- Riiverdance feat Shaboozey
- Levii's Jeans feat Post Malone
- Jolene
- Texas Hold 'Em (with Blue Ivy Carter)
All the music was accompanied by 200 members of the Ocean of Soul Marching Band from Texas Southern University. Alongside these musicians, the singer also called upon Melanie Rivera, Myrtis Dightman, Jr., Nikki Woodward, and Ja’Dayia Kursh.
The NFL show was the first time the singer performed live songs from her new album, Cowboy Carter. The plan to perform songs from the new album was announced in the earliest days of Beyoncé's performance announcement at the show.
The event was broadcast live by Netflix and is also available for free watching on social media and to premium members of Netflix. The show was the third NFL show to be performed by the singer.
Beyonce wore an all-white ensemble by Shiona Turini, consisting of a coat, and underneath it was a studded white bodysuit and fringe chaps. The singer wore a cowboy hat and rode into the stadium on a horse for the performance's opening.
The songs on the setlist of the NFL Halftime show were the second, third, seventh, tenth, twelfth, seventeenth, twentieth, twenty-third, and twenty-sixth tracks of the Cowboy Carter album.
More on Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter album
Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé's new album, consists of 27 tracks. The tracklist for the album is given below:
- Ameriican Requiem - 5:25
- Blackbiird (with Tiera Kennedy, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, and Reyna Robert) (cover, original by The Beatles) - 2:11
- 16 Carriages - 3:47
- Protector feat Rumi Carter - 3:04
- My Rose - 0:53
- Smoke Hour feat Willie Nelson - 0:50
- Texas Hold ‘Em - 3:53
- Bodyguard - 4:00
- Dolly P feat Dolly Parton - 0:22
- Jolene - 3:09
- Daughter - 3:23
- Spaghettii feat Shaboozey and Linda Martell - 2:38
- Alliigator Tears - 2:59
- Smoke Hour II feat Willie Nelson - 0:29
- Just for Fun feat Willie Jones - 3:24
- II Most Wanted featuring Miley Cyrus - 3:28
- Levii’s Jeans feat Post Malone - 4:17
- Flamenco - 1:48
- The Linda Martell Show feat Linda Martell - 0:28
- Ya Ya - 4:34
- Oh Louisiana - 0:52
- Desert Eagle - 1:12
- Riiverdance - 4:11
- II Hands II Heaven - 5:41
- Tyrant feat Dolly Parton - 4:10
- Sweet Honey Buckin' feat Shaboozey - 4:56
- Amen - 2:25
Beyoncé talked about the inspiration behind the album in an Instagram page post on March 19, 2024, stating:
"This album has been over five years in the making. It was born out of an experience that I had years ago where I did not feel welcomed…and it was very clear that I wasn’t. But, because of that experience, I did a deeper dive into the history of Country music and studied our rich musical archive."
Beyoncé continued:
"It feels good to see how music can unite so many people around the world, while also amplifying the voices of some of the people who have dedicated so much of their lives educating on our musical history."
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Cowboy Carter has now become the biggest debut for an album by a Black woman on Spotify, debuting at the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart. The album's top spot debut on the chart made Beyoncé the first woman to have ever debuted eight albums as chart-toppers on the Billboard 200 chart.
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