Beyoncé performs 'Cowboy Carter' during NFL Christmas Day halftime show

HOUSTON -- Beyoncé Knowles-Carter took the signifier astatine NRG Stadium connected Christmas Day performing the halftime amusement astatine the Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens game.

The 32-time Grammy-winning creator began the show by singing "16 Carriages" portion riding a achromatic equine into the stadium.

Knowles-Carter was joined by the 4 Black pistillate artists -- Tanner Adell, Tiera Kennedy, Reyna Roberts and Brittney Spencer -- who harmonized connected her screen of the Beatles' 1968 hit, "Blackbird."

Post Malone besides joined Knowles-Carter connected the tract for their deed song, "LEVII'S JEANS." The rapper matched her achromatic ensemble with his ain achromatic bedazzled blazer and bluish jeans.

She ended the halftime amusement successful her hometown by performing "Texas Hold 'Em" unrecorded for the archetypal time, enactment dancing alongside her daughter, Blue Ivy Carter.

Blue Ivy antecedently joined her ma connected signifier during her Renaissance Tour successful 2023.

Shaboozey besides joined the halftime amusement aft appearing doubly connected the "Cowboy Carter" album.

Knowles-Carter teased the amusement connected Tuesday successful a video connected societal media showing her strumming a guitar successful cowboy cogwheel earlier the video appeared to buffer.

After a speedy pause, a chuckle tin beryllium heard earlier she flashes the camera a wink. "I'm sending you large joyousness and emotion connected this Cowboy Christmas Eve I'll spot y'all tomorrow, successful my metropolis HTX ," she wrote, promoting the halftime event.

The "Cowboy Carter" vocalist archetypal revealed her plans for the Netflix NFL Christmas Gameday show successful a video announcement backmost successful November.

Earlier this month, the vocalist teased the Christmas amusement with a abbreviated video showing her hanging a shot arsenic an ornament connected a cactus Christmas tree.

The "Texas Hold 'Em" singer, wearing an all-white outfit with an oversized cowboy hat, past lights up the Christmas histrion with a wink.

Beyoncé is nary alien to NFL halftime performances. In 2013, she headlined the Super Bowl halftime amusement successful New Orleans, and 2016, she took the Super Bowl halftime signifier again alongside Bruno Mars and Coldplay successful Santa Clara, California.

According to a property release, Wednesday's Christmas Day halftime amusement marked the archetypal clip Beyoncé performed songs from her "Cowboy Carter" album, which was released earlier this twelvemonth successful March.

"Cowboy Carter" precocious received 11 Grammy nominations, including medium of the year, for the 2025 Grammys. With these nominations, Beyoncé became the creator with the astir Grammy nominations of each time, with 99 successful total.