Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX halftime performance garnered 133.5 million viewers. According to the Fox Network and Roc Nation, Lamar brought in the highest halftime audience ever recorded. His ratings dethroned the late King of Pop Michael Jackson’s nearly 35-year viewership record.
According to Frontofficesports.com, K. Dot’s set outdrew the average audience of the game itself, which set an all-time Super Bowl record of 127.7 million viewers.
The game itself peaked at 137.7 million in the second quarter. Fox says that halftime figure is the average viewership. Lamar’s ratings edged out Jackson’s record of 133.4 million U.S. viewers, which was set in 1993.