Inevitably, it depends who you ask. Last year's homage to West Coast rap in Los Angeles was a treat for nostalgists and featured performances from Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Mary J Blige, Kendrick Lamar, the piano intro to 2Pac's I Ain't Mad at Cha and Eminem, who took a knee while performing Lose Yourself. Critics, rightly, lost their minds.
Starring Katy Perry, Super Bowl 49's halftime show in 2015 is the most watched in TV history, with an average US TV audience of 118.5 million people to see her perform Roar, Dark Horse and I Kissed a Girl with special guests Lenny Kravitz and Missy Elliott. Also at Glendale, Arizona, the show averaged a higher TV audience than the game itsefl
The show to do the best numbers on YouTube is Shakira and Jennifer Lopez's Super Bowl 54 effort in 2020, which has a record 264 million views on the platform. Other memorable shows include Prince's epic 2007 performance which ended with seminal rendition of Purple Rain just as the heavens opens in Miami, while Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea got into hot water when 'performing' with Bruno Mars in 2014 because his guitar wasn't plugged in yet still made a noise. Then there's Janet Jackson's 'wardrobe malfunction' in 2004.
Let's just all agree it's not Coldplay and leave it at that.