Bad Bunny&x27;s Super Bowl performance secures massive win months later Demetria OseiTutuSun, September 6, 2026 at 4:45 PM UTC 0 Bad Bunny won his first Primetime Emmy Credit:Getty Images Bad Bunny&x27;s Super Bowl performance is now an Emmyaward winning one. The 32yearold Puerto Rican musician (born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio) won seven Emmys at the Creative Emmy Awards on Saturday, September 5. Back in July, Bad Bunny garnered nine nods for his halftime performance at the football championship game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks in February.
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance secures massive win months later
Demetria Osei-TutuSun, September 6, 2026 at 4:45 PM UTC
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Bad Bunny won his first Primetime Emmy -Credit:Getty Images
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance is now an Emmy-award winning one.
The 32-year-old Puerto Rican musician (born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio) won seven Emmys at the Creative Emmy Awards on Saturday, September 5. Back in July, Bad Bunny garnered nine nods for his halftime performance at the football championship game between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks in February.
Those nods marked the NUEVAYoL artist's Super Bowl halftime performance as the most nominated show, setting a new record. Now, as Bad Bunny cinched seven awards for his Super Bowl halftime show, the show also marked another record as the most-awarded one in Emmy history. At the time, the performance set a global viewership record with 4.157 billion people watching in its first 24 hours alone.
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Bad Bunny specifically won his first Primetime Emmy as the lead performer and a producer, as he won for Outstanding Variety Special (live).
His halftime show additionally won Outstanding Music Direction;Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special; Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety Series or Special; Outstanding Choreography for Variety or Reality Programming; Outstanding Lighting Design/Lighting Direction for a Special; and Outstanding Technical direction and Camerawork for a special.
Bad Bunny's halftime show won seven Emmys, making history has the most-awarded halftime show -Credit:AP
Bad Bunny's is the second halftime performance to win the Outstanding Variety Special (Live) category. The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show Starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, 50 Centwon the award in 2022.
His show is also the first Spanish-language program to win Outstanding Variety Special (Live).
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Another show affiliated with the reggaeton artist won during the Creative Emmys was Saturday Night Live. The Season 51 opening episode—where Bad Bunny did double duty as host and performer—won for Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality program.
Bad Bunny's latest wins comes as he was subjected to right-wing conservative backlash from the moment he was chosen to be the halftime performer last October.
Donald Trump was even bothered and proclaimed to have "never heard" of Bad Bunny, calling the decision "ridiculous."
The show was nominated for nine awards in total -Credit:Getty Images
The right-wing backlash reached a point where conservative organization Turning Point USA created its own halftime show to counter Bad Bunny's. The show was called "The All-American Halftime Show," and Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett performed.
The conservative meltdown continued after his performance as the FCC received more than 2,000 complaints, claiming the performance was "vulgar." There were a lot of complaints about the performance not being in English, the Spanish lyrics, and the dancing.
Bad Bunny addressed the backlash when he hosted SNL in October 2025.
During the Caught Stealing actor's opening monologue, he showed a video mashup of Fox News anchors spliced up to say he was their favorite musician and should be president, following a joke that the network was happy to see him perform.
Bad Bunny went on to say that he was very happy to be performing at the Super Bowl and expressed gratitude to his fans before adding in Spanish, "Especially all of the Latinos and Latinas in the world here in the United States who have worked to open doors. It’s more than a win for myself, it's a win for all of us. Our footprints and our contributions in his country, no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it."
Both NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL's Live Music Entertainment Strategist Jay Z defended the selection of Bad Bunny.
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Published: September 6, 2026 at 08:00PM on Source: PRIME TIME
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