Headlining the Super Bowl halftime show is a dream come true for many artists, but Ed Sheeran isn’t one of them. The British hitmaker revealed that he’s not interested in headlining the Super Bowl, and added he would only hit the stage if he was joining someone else.
During a recent SiriusXM interview with Andy Cohen, Sheeran revealed there had been talks about him joining Coldplay on stage when they headlined the Super Bowl in 2016. Beyonce, Bruno Mars, and Mark Ronson joined them instead, and Sheeran said he could only imagine himself hitting the Super Bowl stage to support someone else.
“The only way that I would do it, is if I was joining someone else. I don’t have pizazz. Like, all of these amazing performers — I’m just not that. I’m not gonna have dancers on stage. I’m not gonna have fireworks. I don’t think that anyone wants to see me do the Super Bowl either,” he explained.
Even though he claims he has no “pizazz” to carry a Super Bowl performance, Sheeran is no stranger to sold-out stadium shows. His Divide Tour set the record for the highest-grossing concert tour when it concluded in 2019 before Elton John broke the record with his final Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour this year.
