This past February, Kendrick Lamar led the Halftime Show festivities, netting 133.5 million viewers — the most of any halftime show, per Billboard. Read the original article on MassLive.

Metallica's Lars Ulrich discussed the prospects of the band performing at the Las Vegas Sphere and the Super Bowl in an August 2025 interview.

If it happens, Metallica would be the first rock band to headline the Super Bowl halftime show since The Who in 2010 (unless you count Coldplay in 2016). Past Super Bowl performers have been largely pop/hip-hop acts, including recent headliners Kendrick Lamar, Usher, Rihanna, Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg, The Weeknd and Shakira/Jennifer Lopez.

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While guesting on 'The Howard Stern Show,' the Metallica drummer addressed two big rumors that have been swirling recently.

Drummer Lars Ulrich said the band is open to headlining two of the biggest stages in entertainment during an interview with Howard Stern on SiriusXM.

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has revealed that the rockers are desperate to play the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show, as the game takes place in their base of San Francisco.

Rumors about who will headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show are heating up as the NFL preseason gets underway. If the oddsmakers at Kalshi are correct, rock bands probably need not apply. Of course,

"We're all such fans of this venue," Lars Ulrich said. "All of our managers and our production people have been there and looked at it."