As my Puerto Rican cousins say, WEPA!!!
just for fun here are those numbers on a bar chart in a spreadsheet - looks like the graphic is decently honest in its depiction
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Wonder how thay scales verse popularion growth
Either way, nice to see it take a fat dump on the racist halftime show
pulling annual US population data from: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/population
(take this with a grain of salt, the last US census was in 2020, I don’t know how they calculate these numbers)
this is what I put together:
Looks like the growth of half-time show audience is faster than population growth.
EDIT: this is the third time I have recreated this damn spreadsheet, lol
What’s the r squared on that trend line?
I don’t know, I deleted the spreadsheet - I don’t know if it helps but it said the trend line was “linear” (unfortunately I don’t know enough about this kind of stuff, I don’t really understand r-squared or what it means)
Ohhhh so that’s why people were playing football at the bad bunny concert lol.
Curious how those viewing numbers are tallied nowadays, given over-the-air, cable, DVR boxes, streaming, digital DVRs, overseas, etc.
They track our phones and get a count of how many phones are near a TV or streaming service with it on.
When I literally only recognize Snoop.
Not even Usher? Really? How?
Maybe they have the music taste as me? I could identify Joakim Broden, Hulkoff, or Danheim but show me any American artist since the early 00s and I don’t know jack.
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Wait, that’s 38% of the US population. That’s actually way less than I would have expected with how much it’s hyped online.
I mean getting more than a 3rd of the population to watch anything at the same time is pretty much impossible at this point. The Superbowl in the US is the closest thing to a unifying cultural moment but the monoculture still continues to fade.
That actually seems really high to me.
Thinking that’s low is insane. What other thing can you get more than 1/3 of the nation to participate in? Personally, I didn’t watch it, and I never do. From my perspective, 1/3 seems high, not low.
The soccer euro- and worldcups often draw like 50% in many countries.
I wonder if that counts those of us who watched it after the fact on the official YouTube posting?
I feel like these numbers only mean something if you weight them by the superbowl viewership.
Its not like 120 million people are turning on the tv just for the halftime show. Looking up online, it does seem like several million extra people do tune in for the halftime show, but also the numbers track pretty closely to the superbowl views - https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-watched-seahawks-patriots-viewership/b0c14c1c15663b99ffd35db9
When was the last time republicans didn’t complain about the Halftime show. Fucking seriously
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The Weeknd’s performance was so damn good 🥲
