How to Watch Rihanna's 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show

Rihanna's long-awaited return to the stage is nearly here. She is set to perform this evening in the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime show.

"When I first got the call to do it again this year I was like, 'Are you sure? I’m three months postpartum. Should I be making major decisions like this right now? I might regret this,'" Rihanna said in a press conference last week. "When you become a mom there’s something that happens where you feel like you can take on the world and can do anything. The Super Bowl is one of the biggest stages in the world. As scary as it was, because I haven’t been on stage in seven years, there’s something exhilarating about the challenge of it all. It’s important for me to do this year. It’s important for my son to see that."

She previously turned down the gig in 2019, telling Vogue she refused due to the NFL's treatment of former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Rihanna said, "I just couldn't be a sellout. I couldn't be an enabler. There's things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way."

Tonight's show will be just 13 minutes long, and Rihanna said there were 39 different versions of the setlist. Viewers can expect hits from her eight albums: Music of the Sun (2005), A Girl Like Me (2006), Good Girl Gone Bad (2007), Rated R (2009), Loud (2010), Talk That Talk (2011),Unapologetic (2012), and ANTI (2016).

Fans have been clamoring for a new album from the Barbadian singer for years, and Rihanna teased she's working on it. "I’m feeling open to exploring, discovering, creating things that are new, things that are different, things that are off, weird. Might not ever make sense to my fans," she said. "I want to have fun with music." It's unlikely she'll perform new music during the show, however.

This year, the Super Bowl (and the Halftime show) will air on Fox—you can check local listings for what channel Fox is on. If you don't have cable, you can watch via streamers like Hulu, FuboTV, and YouTube TV.

Kickoff for the Super Bowl takes place at 6:30 p.m. eastern time, so Rihanna will take the stage roughly after 8 p.m. eastern.

Emily Burack (she/her) is the news writer for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, culture, the royals, and a range of other subjects. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Twitter and Instagram.