popmusiclife: Bruno Mars to perform Super Bowl 48 Halftime Show

Bruno Mars will perform the Super Bowl 48 Halftime Show at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on Sunday, February 2, 2014.

Mars joined FOX NFL Sunday co-hosts Curt Menefee and Terry Bradshaw, along with analysts Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson, Michael Strahan and Jay Glazer in New York City's Times Square to make the live nationally-televised announcement just before kickoff of the Sunday afternoon games.

The Super Bowl halftime show is the most-watched musical event of the year; more than 110.5 million viewers in the U.S. watched last year's show.

Mars joins a list of recent halftime acts that includes Madonna, The Who, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and U2.

The 14-time Grammy Award nominee and Grammy winner has sold over 115 million singles worldwide. His current album, “Unorthodox Jukebox”, and his debut album, “Doo-Wops & Hooligans”, have a combined certification total of 60x platinum worldwide.

According to Billboard, Mars scored his first five "Hot 100" No. 1s faster than any male since Elvis Presley. As a singer, songwriter and producer, Mars has 22 "Hot 100" hits.

Currently, Bruno Mars and his eight-piece band The Hooligans are on a sold-out, 91-city world arena tour; a series of UK dates starts October 2 in Belfast.

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Bruno Mars to perform Super Bowl 48 Halftime Show