Miley Cyrus Leads Early Super Bowl Halftime Show Odds, Despite Fans Calling for BTS
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX performance barely had time to cool off before the speculation machine kicked into gear.
On Feb. 10, FanDuel Canada dropped its performer odds for the 2027 Super Bowl Halftime Show, and the early picture looks wildly different from what fans are actually demanding online.
That gap between the sportsbook and the public tells its own story.
Miley Cyrus sits at the top of FanDuel’s board at +310, making her the current betting favorite. Here’s the full top-10 breakdown:
- Miley Cyrus (+310)
- Cardi B (+440)
- Taylor Swift (+490)
- Lil Wayne (+520)
- A$AP Rocky (+610)
- Justin Bieber (+790)
- J. Cole (+880)
- Drake (+880)
- Ariana Grande (+920)
- Harry Styles (+1040)
Beyond the top ten, FanDuel has its eye on Morgan Wallen (+1120), Lady Gaga (+1200), Metallica (+1260), BLACKPINK (+1260), Lil Nas X (+1300), Doja Cat (+1400) and Billie Eilish (+1500).
For anyone tracking the pop culture betting landscape, the Cyrus pick at the top makes a certain kind of sense. But the real signal here might be who FanDuel left off entirely.
Fans Have Their Eyes Set On Someone Else
BTS does not appear anywhere on FanDuel’s list. That absence is striking given what’s about to happen with the group.
BTS is making a major comeback in 2026 after a nearly four-year hiatus for military service. The return includes a new album, Arirang, released March 20; a global world tour starting in April; and a documentary, BTS: The Return, arriving on Netflix on March 27.
Fans are already requesting the NFL to add the Super Bowl Halftime Show to BTS’s itinerary. And the numbers back up that demand.
On Feb. 10, Billboard ran a poll asking who fans want to perform at next year’s event. The list included Miley Cyrus, BTS, BLACKPINK, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Post Malone, Morgan Wallen, Lil Wayne, Drake, Harry Styles and Justin Bieber, along with a section listed “Other.”
As of Feb. 12, 85% of the pollees chose BTS. That’s not a plurality. That’s a landslide.
The next closest? Four percent who chose Other, followed by 2.7% who chose BLACKPINK and 2.3% who chose Taylor Swift.
So you have a sportsbook placing BTS nowhere on its radar, and a public poll where the group commands 85% of the vote. That disconnect is worth watching closely over the next several months.
More About the 2027 Super Bowl Halftime Show
The 2027 Super Bowl, marketed as Super Bowl LXI, is slated for Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
The NFL often announces the Super Bowl Halftime Show performer within the first few weeks of the regular season.
Bad Bunny was unveiled as the Super Bowl LX artist on September 28th, 2025, and the 2025-26 regular season began Sept. 4.
The 2026-27 schedule hasn’t been released yet, so no firm timeline exists for next year’s announcement window. That means the speculation phase will likely last through summer and into early fall. .
As for the venue, SoFi Stadium carries some history.
The arena last hosted the Super Bowl in 2022, when Super Bowl LVI brought one of the most talked-about halftime performances in recent memory. That show was headlined by Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar, per the NFL.
Not only that, but the show became the first to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), per the Television Academy.
With SoFi hosting again, the 2027 show carries the weight of that precedent. Whoever gets the nod will be performing in a venue associated with a history-making halftime.
What to Keep an Eye On This Year
FanDuel’s odds and Billboard’s poll are measuring different things.
The sportsbook is pricing in a mix of factors: likelihood of availability, the NFL’s own selection tendencies, commercial partnerships, how a performer fits the broadcast audience.
A fan poll measures raw enthusiasm and mobilization, and BTS’s global fanbase (known as ARMY) has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to dominate online votes at scale.
Neither metric is a prediction. They’re signals. The betting odds tell you where money thinks the decision will land. The poll tells you where the loudest energy sits.
When those two things diverge this sharply, the final choice often reveals something about the NFL’s own priorities and how it balances commercial appeal with fan demand.
This story was originally published February 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM.