Beyoncé Delivers Epic Gift Of A Halftime Performance During Nfl Christmas Gameday Live On Netflix

BEYONCÉ DELIVERS EPIC GIFT OF A HALFTIME PERFORMANCE DURING NFL CHRISTMAS GAMEDAY LIVE ON NETFLIX

Post Malone, Blue Ivy Carter and Shaboozey among the guest performers in her hometown of Houston, Texas

Enjoy “Beyoncé Bowl” again as a standalone special coming soon to Netflix

Photo by Julian Dakdouk

Houston, December 25, 2024 — Beyoncé performed a show-stopping halftime performance during Netflix's first-ever NFL Christmas Gameday as the Houston Texans hosted the Baltimore Ravens at NRG Stadium live on Netflix.

This special performance took place in Beyoncé’s hometown of Houston, Texas, produced by her company, Parkwood Entertainment and Jesse Collins Entertainment.

The expansive performance of music, fashion and history featured a slew of guest performers in a roof-raising twelve-plus minutes showcasing the first live performance of songs from her genre-bending and record-breaking COWBOY CARTER album. The 11-time Grammy-nominated, juggernaut album recently became the most nominated album by a female artist.

The set included, among others, “16 CARRIAGES,” “BLACKBIIRD,” “AMERIICAN REQUIEM,” “YA YA,” “SPAGHETTII/RIIVERDANCE,” “LEVII’S JEANS,” “JOLENE,” and the ubiquitous smash, “TEXAS HOLD ‘EM,” that ended the set with Beyoncé literally lifting to the rafters.

The guests who brought their sizzle to the show included performers Post Malone, C2C 2025 bound Shaboozey, Reyna Roberts, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, and Tiera Kennedy.

Blue Ivy Carter, Beyoncé’s eldest daughter, joined in as a featured dancer. The Texans Cheerleaders also joined in, representing the home team. And in a beautiful tribute to Western and Rodeo culture, Beyoncé included as special guests, Mexican Cowgirl, Melanie Rivera, Bull-riding legend, Myrtis Dightman, Jr., known as the “Jackie Robinson of Rodeo,” Miss Rodeo Texas Princess 2004 and Miss Rodeo Texas 2015, Nikki Woodward, and the first Black Rodeo Queen in Arkansas, Ja’Dayia Kursh. Joining them in the rousing caravan were Houston Texans owner, Cal McNair and his wife, Hannah.

The energy turned all the way up with the addition of close to 200 members of Texas Southern University’s Ocean of Soul Marching Band. The HBCU, world-class band delivered on all its known for, powerful sound, precision and choreography,

Photo by Julian Dakdouk

Beyoncé is no stranger to electrifying NFL halftime appearances having performed at two Super Bowl games. She headlined Super Bowl XLVII on February 3, 2013, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was joined onstage by Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, her bandmates in Destiny’s Child. The performance became the second most-watched Super Bowl halftime show in history at the time. For Super Bowl XV, on February 7, 2016, she joined Coldplay and Bruno Mars in Santa Clara, California for one of the most-watched Super Bowl halftime shows with 115.5 million tuned in to get in “Formation.”

Netflix members can re-live the full halftime performance of “Beyoncé Bowl,” as a standalone special, when it comes to the service later this week. For additional details on “Beyoncé Bowl” please visit www.netflix.com/BeyonceBowl.

Back on Dec 11th In a fun video she shared on social media and YouTube, the "Texas Hold 'Em" singer was seen dressed in an all-white look with a matching snow-covered cowboy hat as she magically turned on the lights on her cactus Christmas tree. She flashed a smile before the words, "HALFTIME SHOW THIS CHRISTMAS HOUSTON, TX," appeared onscreen.

In November it was announced that Beyoncé would be performing live during halftime of the Baltimore Ravens vs. Houston Texans game on Christmas Day as part of Netflix's first-ever NFL Christmas Gameday.

She announced the news with an epic video of her standing on a red rose-covered car, catching a football with one hand.

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LOS ANGELES, March 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyoncé's eighth studio album act ii COWBOY CARTER arrived following the successful release of two lead singles, "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" and "16 CARRIAGES" on February 11, Superbowl Sunday.

"TEXAS HOLD 'EM" landed across nine different genres on US music charts including Pop, Hot AC, Country, Rhythmic, Urban, and R&B, and making history with Beyoncé becoming the first Black female artist to reach No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and No. 1 on the Hot 100 Chart with a Country song. It also spent four weeks at the top of the UK music charts.

COWBOY CARTER, executive produced by Beyoncé, is about genres, all of them, while deeply rooted in Country. This is the work of an artist who thrives in her freedom to grow, expand, and create limitlessly. It makes no apologies, and seeks no permission in elevating, amplifying, and redefining the sounds of music, while dismantling accepted false norms about Americana culture. It pays homage to the past, honoring musical pioneers in Country, Rock, Classical, and Opera.

Beyoncé appears in a promo photo for the singer's halftime performance at 

the Ravens v. Texans NFL game on Christmas Day. Parkwood Entertainment

The album is a cornucopia of sounds that Beyoncé loves, and grew up listening to, between visits and eventually performances at the Houston Rodeo – Country, original Rhythm & Blues, Blues, Zydeco, and Black Folk. The album wraps itself in pure instrumentation in a celebratory authentic gumbo of sounds using among others, the accordion, harmonica, washboard, acoustic guitar, bass ukulele, pedal steel guitar, a Vibra-Slap, the mandolin, fiddle, Hammond B3 organ, tack piano, and the banjo. There's also plenty of handclaps, horseshoe steps, boot stomps on hardwood floors and yes, those are Beyoncé's nails as percussion.

"The joy of creating music is that there are no rules," says Beyoncé. "The more I see the world evolving the more I felt a deeper connection to purity. With artificial intelligence and digital filters and programming, I wanted to go back to real instruments, and I used very old ones. I didn't want some layers of instruments like strings, especially guitars, and organs perfectly in tune. I kept some songs raw and leaned into folk. All the sounds were so organic and human, everyday things like the wind, snaps and even the sound of birds and chickens, the sounds of nature."

And the inspiration further takes into account Southern and Western culture beyond music, the Rodeo, Western films, and the stories of the original cowboys of the West. It was at the Rodeo where she first saw diversity and camaraderie among people who love Country music and an Americana lifestyle, steeped in community, culinary offerings, grills, and Western gear. And it was for everyone. Among the crowds were Black, Hispanic and Native American Cowboys, who made their valuable, authentic allowances to the culture. Their stories are synonymous with American history….SOURCE PRNewswire

Beyoncé Achieves Eighth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘Cowboy Carter’

The set also started at No. 1 on Top Country Albums, making Beyoncé the first Black woman ever to have led the list.

Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER galloped in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated April 13), debuting with 407,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 4, according to Luminate. It’s the superstar’s eighth No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200.

With 407,000 units earned, Cowboy Carter claimed the biggest week of 2024 and the largest since Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) bowed with 1.653 million units on the Nov. 11, 2023-dated list. Cowboy Carter’s launch is also Beyoncé’s biggest week, by units, since her Lemonade album debuted at No. 1 with 653,000 units (mostly from traditional album sales) on the May 14, 2016, chart. The new effort also lands Beyoncé her biggest streaming week ever.

COWBOY CARTER also launched at No.1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums, Americana/Folk Albums and Top Album Sales charts. She’s the first Black woman ever to have led the Top Country Albums list, dating to its January 1964 inception. Cowboy Carter also claimed the biggest week for a country album, by units earned, since last July, when Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), opened at No. 1 on the July 22, 2023 chart with 716,000 units.

Kenny Chesney on TWO Major Honors + Loving Music

Pinnacle/ President’s Award Winner 

On The Record + on Beyonce

1/4/2016 NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Having just spent two weeks doing interviews and promotion for his Cosmic Hallelujah, Kenny Chesney came into Nashville grateful – and humbled by the response to his chart-topping duet with P!NK “Setting The World on Fire.” Having spent several days getting ready to receive the Country Music Association’s Pinnacle Award at the 50^th Annual CMA Awards – given for only the third time in the organization’s history – he took the idea of his speech very seriously, even mentioning “responsibility” in what he said onstage.
 
To him, the moment was supposed to be about acknowledging the music, the journey and especially the fans who’ve lived their lives in his songs. So to be told the following afternoon that there was a buzz about him dissing Beyonce, the 8-time Entertainer of the Year was astounded. With an interview with ABC completed, Chesney thought people who knew him at all would more than know if anything his serious expression was one of respect, a man knowing he was seeing a once-in-a-lifetime performance.

Kenny Chesney Reassures the Beyhive After CMA Awards Reaction Shot: 'I Love Beyonce'

Kenny Chesney wants the Beyhive to know they've got it all wrong: He loves Beyonce.

Some viewers watching the 50th annual Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday targeted the country star for his facial expression during Bey's performance of "Daddy Lessons" with the Dixie Chicks. Many fans said online that he didn't appear to be very impressed with one of the biggest performances of the evening…Read More Billboard.com

#KennyChesney when #Beyoncé and The Dixie Chicks were performing at the #CMAs pic.twitter.com/TuTPkEJt73

— Tha Celebritea News (@thacelebritea) 3 November 2016

I love Beyonce

“I love Beyonce… I loved her Super Bowl performance, her sense of how to make the music hit really hard – and give it drama when she’s onstage,” Chesney responded. “The idea her fans were so quick to judge me, or know what I was thinking doesn’t feel like the woman I’ve always imagined Beyonce to be – and honestly, the people who love her music, either.
 
“As someone who believes in the message of Spread the Love, we try to find the best in people – and in this case, that meant really watching the musicianship on that stage, as well as a guest in our format who’d written an incredible song. I am amazed and saddened this is the response my respect for her art gets.”

The Dixie Chicks & Beyoncé' perform "Daddy Lessons."
Credit: Image Group LA/Getty

Chesney, originally signed to Acuff Rose for “The Tin Man,” a pained ballad about how life can puncture you, was awarded BMI’s all-genre President’s Award recognizing his commitment to songwriting and the creative community on Tuesday night.  With Cosmic Hallelujah delayed to accommodate “Setting The World On Fire” affording him extra time to record more songs, the unconventional tactic to make the music even stronger has resulted in a No. album at HITSDailyDouble.com today – and exceptional critical notices. 

USA Today proclaimed, “Chesney goes ‘deeper’ on new album,” while The New York Times enthused Cosmic Hallelujah is “a long, long way from Mr. Chesney’s typical arena-country ballads  about rural pleasures and island getaways” and NPR cited it for “folk’s storytelling, soul’s honesty and gospel’s spirit.” Newsday raved “The result will fit nicely between ‘Friends in Low Places’ and ‘Keep Your Hands To Yourself.’ In other words, country perfection.”
 
“I believe music is great or not,” says Chesney. “It has nothing to do with genre, gender or color. Just did you bring it, and how great are your songs? To me, there’s no question about Beyonce – or my response to their performance.”

Chris Stapleton was humbled to be in the presence of so many heroes and icons of music at the 50th annual CMAs even Beyonce.

The Kentucky-raised singer rained praise upon the megastar, who took the stage with perform “Daddy Lessons” off her chart-topping album Lemonade and “Long Time Gone.”

“She’s everything you want her to be,” Stapleton remarked backstage following the CMAs (quote via the Boot), calling Beyonce’s presence at the show a significant one. “She’s a classy, classy lady, and I’m proud that she could take the time to come show up.”

However, Travis Tritt didn’t think country music needed any help from Beyoncé, or any pop artist, for that matter.

In his opinion, the performance was just an unnecessary ploy for ratings. Tritt’s Twitter rant began on Nov. 3, when he sarcastically criticized the mixing of pop music with country music.

“As I see it, country music has appealed to millions for many years,” he wrote. “We can stand on our own and don’t need pop artists on our awards shows.”

I love honest to God country music and feel the need to stand up for it at all costs. We don't need pop or rap artists to validate us.

— Travis Tritt (@Travistritt) 4 November 2016

Country artist Wheeler Walker Jr. had a particularly poignant reply.

.@Travistritt dislikes Beyonce @ CMAs.
Doesn't want country mixed w/ other genres.
Screenshot from his wiki page: pic.twitter.com/c9qDlF5GKV

— Wheeler Walker, Jr. (@WheelerWalkerJr) 5 November 2016

The Dixie Chicks responded to the Tritt's rant.

If we all turn this up really loud, together we can drown out the hate. https://t.co/PWJcDeNmuR

— Dixie Chicks (@dixiechicks) 3 November 2016

Tritt also responded to plenty of fans and followers ― some who agreed with him and others who disagreed. Some users also called Tritt racist for his remarks. Race was a large part of the discussion around this year’s CMA Awards after it appeared the Country Music Association scrubbed its social media of Beyoncé’s performance.

However, the musician maintained that his argument was never about race, but instead about his disappointment in the CMAs for thinking “they need pop every year for ratings.” He claimed that he would be disappointed if any pop act, not just Beyoncé, performed at the award show.

Watch UK singer Fiona Culley’s cover of Beyonce’s “Daddy Lessons” (writers: Wynter Gordon, Beyoncé Knowles, Kevin Cossom, Alex Delicata) published on May 9, 2016 (202.7K Views)

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