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Artists Who Won Grammys & Performed at the Super Bowl Halftime Show in the Same Year: Full List

Written by on February 6, 2025

Kendrick Lamar and SZA are the latest stars to have this multi-platform triumph. Tony Bennett was the first.

Kendrick Lamar won five Grammys on Sunday (Feb. 2), just one week before he headlines the halftime show at Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Not to be outdone, SZA, who is set as his guest performer, won a Grammy of her own.

This brings to 20 the number of Super Bowl halftime performers who have won Grammys that same year. The fairly high degree of overlap isn’t surprising, really. When you’re hot, you’re hot, as Jerry Reed put it in a 1971 hit. The producers of the halftime show are looking to book the hottest show they can. And being hot never hurt your chances of winning a Grammy (though the Recording Academy asks its voting members to focus strictly on artistic merit).

Lamar’s five Grammys included record and song of the year for “Not Like Us.” Several previous halftime performers also won in Big Four categories on Music’s Biggest Night in years they played what has become the world’s biggest stage. Tony Bennett was on the halftime show in 1995, one month before he won album of the year for MTV Unplugged. Christina Aguilera was on the halftime show in 2000, three weeks before she won a Grammy as best new artist.

U2 headlined the halftime show in 2002, a few weeks before they won record of the year for “Walk On.” Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson were featured during Coldplay’s halftime show in 2016, just a week before they won record of the year for “Uptown Funk!”  And Anderson .Paak was featured during the all-star hip-hop Super Bowl halftime show in 2022, about two months before he and Mars won record of the year at the pandemic-delayed Grammys for their Silk Sonic collab, “Leave the Door Open.”

Here are all the performers who won Grammys and performed at the Super Bowl halftime show in the same year.

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