{"id":73492,"date":"2026-05-14T01:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/shakira-madonna-and-bts-to-headline-first-world-cup-final-half-time-show\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:54:56","slug":"shakira-madonna-and-bts-to-headline-first-world-cup-final-half-time-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/shakira-madonna-and-bts-to-headline-first-world-cup-final-half-time-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakira, Madonna and BTS to headline first World Cup final half-time show"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Colombian singer last week teased new official tournament song<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin is curating entertainment at MetLife Stadium<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shakira, Madonna and K-pop megastars BTS will headline a Super Bowl-style half-time show at the World Cup final on 19 July at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, Fifa said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin is curating the show, which is a first for a football World Cup final but has raised concerns about how long half-time will be.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/may\/14\/shakira-madonna-bts-headline-first-world-cup-final-half-time-show\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colombian singer last week teased new official tournament song Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin is curating entertainment at MetLife Stadium Shakira, Madonna and K-pop megastars BTS will headline a Super Bowl-style half-time show at the World Cup final on 19 July at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, Fifa said Thursday. Coldplay\u2019s Chris Martin is curating the show, &#8230; <a title=\"Shakira, Madonna and BTS to headline first World Cup final half-time show\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/shakira-madonna-and-bts-to-headline-first-world-cup-final-half-time-show\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Shakira, Madonna and BTS to headline first World Cup final half-time show\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}