Burna Boy performs at the NFL Paris Game halftime show at Stade de France

The NFL Gave Burna Boy Halftime in the Stadium He Filled on His Own

With Burna Boy and Paris, it was always going to be Stade de France. Eighteen months after he sold out the 80,000-capacity stadium in Saint-Denis by himself, the NFL brought him back today to play halftime at its first regular-season game in France, the Pittsburgh Steelers against the New Orleans Saints.

The league said as much when it announced him in September. Tim Tubito, its senior director of global game presentation, music and entertainment, pointed out that Burna Boy “has already made history in this stadium.” Burna put it as a homecoming: “Paris gave me one of the biggest nights of my career, and to walk back into Stade de France for a moment like this means everything.”

The songs he brought back were the songs of that night. Bolavip lists “4 Kampe II” as his opener, the kompa record he made with French-Haitian singer Joé Dwèt Filé, who joined him for it when Burna played the stadium in April 2025. Clips from today show him working through “On The Low,” “Ye” and “Last Last,” and those last two closed his own show here under fireworks. He did it in a maroon suit, red beanie and dark glasses, on a stage dressed in red, with horns, violins, drums and a line of dancers around him.

France Télévisions carried the show free to air, and its sports account summed it up: Burna Boy “MET LE FEU,” set the place on fire.

Paris is the second NFL halftime in Europe to go to a Nigerian act in 15 days. Ayra Starr headlined the London Game at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on October 11, opening with “Heaven Baby” and also performing “Rush,” “Santa,” “Dangerous” and a “Hot Body” and “Ms. Paper” medley. Both shows sit inside a record seven halftime performances the league is staging across its international games this season.

It has been a stadium-sport year for Burna. In July he shared the first World Cup final halftime show at MetLife Stadium with Shakira and Uganda’s Ghetto Kids on the tournament anthem “Dai Dai,” in a crowded 11-minute show where, by AP’s count, each headliner got about two minutes. Today the halftime was his.

In April 2025 he needed more than two hours, Youssou N’Dour and a run of guests to say everything he wanted to say to this stadium. Today he had one halftime, and he picked the same songs.