In January, Apple started a countdown to Tremendous Bowl LVIII with a brand new collection of Health+ exercises. Now it’s preparing for the massive recreation with “a wealthy assortment of unique content material” from this 12 months’s Halftime Present’s headliner.
Apple made headlines final 12 months when Apple Music sponsored its first Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present ever, that includes Rihanna, and it’s again for an enormous encore for Tremendous Bowl LVIII with USHER, the “King of R&B” and one of many all-time prime music artists.
Nonetheless, we’ll be listening to extra from USHER than simply his dwell efficiency at Sunday’s Halftime Present. In a newsroom announcement immediately, Apple shared how the week main as much as Tremendous Bowl LVIII will function a lineup of unique content material from the best-selling artist, from Spatial Audio albums and curated playlists to devoted Apple Music Radio programming and an interview on the Tremendous Bowl LVIII Halftime Present press convention.
Along with USHER’s full studio album discography in Spatial Audio, Apple Music can be that includes My Street to Halftime, a set of songs curated by USHER himself that not solely options his personal hits but additionally contains tracks from different artists that encourage and inspire him as he will get prepared for his legendary present. USHER’s Street to Halftime assortment will even have a set of playlists curated by NFL gamers comparable to Travis Kelce, Stefon Diggs, Davante Adams, Dak Prescott, Jalen Hurts, and Damar Hamlin, plus playlists that includes the highest songs that every NFL staff listens to when gearing up for a recreation.
Music has all the time been one of the simplest ways to set a temper, clarify an emotion, or outline completely different moments in time.USHER
This Thursday, February 8, at 10 a.m. PT, USHER will even be interviewed throughout the Tremendous Bowl LVIII Halftime Present press convention by Apple Music Radio’s Nadeska Alexis. The interview might be live-streamed on Apple Music in addition to TikTok, YouTube, Fb, X, and the NFL Community.
As we shared final month, Apple kicked off 2024 with a brand new set of Apple Health+ exercises, together with an Artist Highlight Sequence that includes earlier Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present stars, together with Rihanna, Britney Spears, and U2. That concludes this week with immediately’s Artist Highlight exercises backed by music by USHER.
USHER is among the best performers alive, and his music has touched so many people around the globe. We couldn’t be extra excited to have him on board for the second Apple Music Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present and supply followers so many enjoyable methods to have fun this iconic second in his profession.Oliver Schusser, Apple’s vice chairman of Apple Music and Beats
Final month, Apple Music and USHER additionally shared a first-look trailer of what we are able to anticipate from Sunday’s Halftime Present.
Apple additionally has a number of different bonuses in retailer for Apple followers:
- USHER’s producer and hip-hop icon Jermaine Dupri is producing a particular USHER MegaMix of all of the star’s largest songs in Spatial Audio, to be discovered solely on Apple Music.
- Vegas’s DJs Tiësto, Gryffin, BLOND:ISH, and A Hundred Drums will even be releasing some unique DJ mixes on Saturday evening, February 10.
- The Story of USHER in 20 Songs, an editorial function obtainable on Apple Music, will present an in-depth have a look at the artist’s legendary 30-year profession.
- USHER’s ninth studio album, COMING HOME, is being launched on Apple Music this Friday, February 9, and is up for preorder now.
- Apple Music’s USHER Necessities playlist permits followers to “immerse themselves in three many years of USHER hits throughout his catalog of boundary-pushing R&B, membership ballads, and international bangers.”
- Apple Music Radio will function unique programming “on the bottom and within the stands” from Thursday, February 8, till the day of the Halftime Present on Sunday. It will embrace a number of dwell broadcasts, plus a particular five-part collection, “The Estelle Present Particular: USHER Now & Endlessly,” launching immediately that “chronicles USHER’s evolution into a worldwide pop star.”
Apple will even offer up bonus content material for individuals who Shazam USHER’s music this week by way of the Apple Music Tremendous Bowl Halftime Present occasion web page, which can embrace customized Apple Watch faces and iPhone wallpapers, together with the Set Record and pictures from the present.