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Super Bowl Commercials 2026: Pop Star Appearances


Bloomberg reports that a 30-second ad during Super Bowl LX comes with a price tag of $10 million. But that record-high rate hasn’t stopped brands from cashing in on coveted commercial time, or recruiting some of the year’s most marketable pop stars to help them out.

Between your chances to cheer on the Seattle Seahawks, the New England Patriots, and/or Bad Bunny’s halftime show, stars like Sabrina Carpenter and Lady Gaga will do their due diligence in trying to sell you shit. In other cases, stars from outside the music world will make appearances with a recognizable needle drop in the background.

As always, many companies have preemptively shared their commercials ahead of the big game; others have teased their ads with previews before unveiling the full thing this Sunday, Feb. 8.

Check out what the pop stars are shilling this year below.

Charli XCX x Poppi

Actor Rachel Sennott and director Aidan Zamiri have previously collaborated with Charli XCX with her “360” music video and her new movie The Moment. The trio are reuniting for this year’s Super Bowl in an ad for the prebiotic soda brand Poppi, as Charli teased on Instagram with a carousel of BTS photos: “Busy next weekend?”

Sabrina Carpenter x Pringles

Sabrina Carpenter has a lot of songs about how difficult it is to be, as they say, single as a Pringle. Fittingly, she’ll be making her Super Bowl commercial debut this year for Pringles, finally resorting to building her own boyfriend out of potato chips.

Post Malone x Bud Light

Whitney Houston’s classic ballad “I Will Always Love You” soundtracks Bud Light’s Super Bowl commercial this year, which finds returning brand spokesdudes Post Malone, Shane Gillis, and Peyton Manning at a destination wedding reception that goes awry when a keg rolls off a cliff. Please don’t invite me to your wedding if Bud Light is the only beer you have on tap.

Backstreet Boys x T-Mobile

Just like football players ahead of the game, the Backstreet Boys need to warm up. Here they are doing just that while wearing T-Mobile pink.

Benson Boone x Instacart

In this retro-looking bit directed by Spike Jonze, Benson Boone and Ben Stiller play a pair of Eurodance stars who remind us how lucky we are to live in the present because we can order groceries with just a click. Also, only one of them can successfully land a backflip.

Addison Rae x Uber Eats

It’d be too on-the-nose if Addison Rae appeared in a Diet Pepsi commercial. Instead, she sips a can of the stuff in an Uber Eats spot, where Matthew McConaughey tries to sell Bradley Cooper on his theory that the Super Bowl is one big gimmick to sell food.

DJ Khaled x Wegovy

Wegovy, one of the popular injectable drugs for treating obesity, is now the first GLP-1 available an FDA-approved pill. DJ Khaled is psyched. He’s joined in this ad for Novo Nordisk’s tablets by John C. Reilly, Danielle Brooks, Danny Trejo, former SNL cast member Ana Gasteyer, and current SNL cast member Kenan Thompson (who joined the show six months after Gasteyer left in 2002). The soundtrack features Skee-Lo’s classic ’95 debut single “I Wish.” They should’ve had Skee-Lo rapping that “side effects of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea can lead to dehydration which may cause kidney problems.”

50 Cent x DoorDash

In his spot titled “Beef 101,” 50 Cent admits he is the “kings of the trolls.” From a DoorDash bag he pulls out a bag of cheese puffs and hair combs … referencing his constant trolling of Puff Daddy/Sean Combs. Picking up a bottle of his Branson Cognac, he says it’s aged for “four years or 50 months,” the length of Diddy’s sentence.

Lady Gaga x Rocket + Redfin

Lady Gaga sounds expectedly fabulous covering Mister Rogers’ “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” for Redfin and Rocket Mortgage, although I’d like to know the percentage of Gaga fans who actually have mortgages to deal with.

Andy Samberg (singing Neil Diamond) x Hellmann’s

A hardly-recognizable Andy Samberg dons a Neil Diamond hair-swoop as the Lonely Islander serenades a deli with a “Sweet Caroline” parody about how Hellmann’s mayonnaise makes your sandwich so good, so good, so good. Elle Fanning is not impressed, and she’s not alone.

KATSEYE and Hailee Steinfeld x State Farm

The Buffalo Bills did not make it to the Super Bowl this year, but at least we get to see Bills wife Hailee Steinfeld regret selecting a sketchy insurance company in a spot starring Danny McBride and Keegan-Michael Key. Nothing like a group Bon Jovi singalong to make you wish you’d gone with State Farm instead. Jon Bon Jovi, incidentally, will introduce the Patriots as they take the field.

Ludacris and Chingy x Frank’s RedHot

That, right thurr, is Ludacris and pal Chingy debating the GOAT hot sauce for your Super Bowl snack consideration.

EJAE (singing Phil Collins) x Liquid I.V. 

K‑Pop Demon Hunters breakout star EJAE has a bathroom big enough for a grand piano. Between sips of a Liquid I.V.-infused water, she gives a soulful bathroom rendition of Phil Collins’ 1984 classic “Against All Odds.” It’s the electrolyte mix’s first Big Game spot.

As far as needle drops without pop star appearances…

Ring – Harry Nilsson’s “Without You”

There are quite a few reasons why you should probably not own a Ring camera, but the Amazon-owned company certainly doesn’t want you to know about them. Here are some cute dogs and Harry Nilsson’s classic Badinger cover to distract you from the surveillance state of it all.

Budweiser – Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird”

This horse doesn’t drink Budweiser, but he does teach a baby eagle how to spread its wings and fly.

Pepsi – Queen’s “I Want To Break Free”

Taika Waititi directed Pepsi’s Super Bowl spot this year, which proves to us that polar bears prefer Pepsi over Coca-Cola and that they’re not exempt from unexpected concert kiss cam appearances. Waititi also directed Jurassic Park stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum (who has a new album in June) in a spot for Comcast’s Xfinity.

Fanatics Sportsbook – Harry Belafonte’s “Jump In The Line”

For sports betting site Fanatics Sportsbook’s first-ever Super Bowl ad, Kendall Jenner dots the history of her hooper ex-boyfriends as Harry Belafonte’s hit plays in the background.




Grace Ives, Quiet Light, & The Week’s Best New Songs: Listen


Sometimes a song falls together like magic. Singer Venus O’Broin says “I Know!” basically wrote itself, and you can tell, in the best way. Swapmeet’s debut single for Winspear seems to flow out of them, chugging along with a natural sense of purpose and propulsion. The hook, matching O’Broin’s vocals with a needling bit of ’90s guitar, is just one phrase repeated — “I know, I know, I know” — followed by the dam-breaking sound of the band rushing back in. It’s an acknowledgement that something’s not right, embedded a song where everything works together perfectly. —Chris


Nerina Pallot: A quarter-century of music and a milestone at the Royal Albert Hall – Music News


In the landscape of British singer-songwriters, Nerina Pallot has always been defined by a rare blend of emotional honesty and melodic sophistication. Now, as she marks 25 years in the industry, the BRIT and Ivor Novello nominee is reaching a career pinnacle. On May 31st, Pallot will take the stage for her largest headline show to date at the iconic Royal Albert Hall, a performance that serves as both a retrospective and a thank-you to a remarkably loyal fanbase, buy tickets below.

This milestone follows a triumphant, sold-out show at the London Palladium in 2024, signaling an organic resurgence for the artist. “To be playing there, twenty-five years after I released my first record, is something I never imagined,” Pallot reflects. To coincide with the event, she will release her first ‘Best Of’ album this May—a collection featuring chart-toppers like “Everybody’s Gone To War” and “Sophia,” alongside new material and live staples.

Pallot’s journey began with 2001’s Dear Frustrated Superstar, but it was the Gold-certified Fires (2005) that cemented her as a household name. Over six subsequent albums, including the critically acclaimed A Psalm for Emily Salvi, she has navigated the industry with fierce independence, also lending her songwriting talents to stars like Kylie Minogue.

However, her latest venture is as much about technology as it is about tunes. Frustrated by the “algorithm-driven” nature of modern social media, Pallot has launched CHMBR, a new app platform designed to bypass traditional feeds.

“I’ve become really fed up with being a dancing monkey for the algorithm,” Pallot says of the project. CHMBR offers a private, ad-free space where artists can connect directly with their audience without their posts being buried by AI-generated content or paid advertisements. It is a bold move toward digital sovereignty, ensuring that when she speaks, her fans actually hear her.

As limited tickets remain for the May 31st spectacular, it’s clear that Pallot’s 25-year career is not just a look back, but a leap forward into a more connected, independent future.

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Joshua Idehen offers a sonic embrace with new single ‘Turn It Around’ + tour tickets – Music News


In a world increasingly defined by digital noise and collective exhaustion, British-Nigerian poet and musician Joshua Idehen has emerged as a vital voice of “disarming positivity.” Today, Idehen shares ‘Turn It Around,’ the final single from his profoundly titled debut album, I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got To Try, which arrives this Friday, March 6th, via Heavenly Recordings.

‘Turn It Around’ is three and a half minutes of pure, euphoric house music. It blends Idehen’s signature rhythmic poetry with a driving four-on-the-floor beat and a soul-saving female vocal. Originally suggested as an album closer by Ylva, the wife of Idehen’s creative partner Ludvig Parment, the track serves as a redemptive punctuation mark to a record defined by healing.

A Journey from Spoken Word to Dancefloor Joy

Idehen’s path to this solo debut has been a nearly twenty-year odyssey through London’s poetry scene and collaborations with the likes of Sons of Kemet and Benin City. Following a transformative move to Stockholm during the pandemic, Idehen began a creative rebirth alongside Parment. The resulting album is a cathartic mix of house beats and lyrical meditations on grief, fatherhood, and resilience.

Critics are already hailing the record as a masterpiece of contemporary optimism. MOJO awarded it four stars, praising Idehen’s “narrative vision,” while The Guardian noted that “cultivating joy” is Idehen’s primary mission. It is, as Mr Porter aptly described, “poetry reflected through a nightclub mirror ball.”

2026 Headline Tour and Festivals

Following the album’s release, Idehen will embark on an extensive UK and EU headline tour starting in March. The run includes stops in Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam, before heading to the UK for shows at Bristol’s Electric, Manchester’s Gorilla, and a massive night at London’s KOKO on April 23rd, buy tickets below.

Fans can also catch Idehen’s high-energy live show at major festivals this summer, including Roskilde, We Out Here, and a supporting slot for Self Esteem at Cardiff Castle.

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