Millions of Dollars Bet on Length of Super Bowl National Anthem Every Year

Published on January 31st, 2025 4:30 pm EST
Written By: Dave Manuel


Betting Millions on How Long the Super Bowl Anthem Will Last.  In photo:  Lady Gaga. Millions of dollars are bet on how long the Super Bowl national anthem will be every year.

Internet sleuths and betting enthusiasts will spend hours poring over past national anthems to get a feel of how long a National Anthem could be. How long have Reba McEntire's national anthems been in the past? Is there video evidence of Pink's prior national anthem performances?

Some enterprising bettors will try to gain access to the national anthem dress rehearsal. If you can hear the dress rehearsal taking place, you can be pretty confident that the actual Super Bowl national anthem will be more or less the same length.

The length of the national anthem can vary dramatically - Lady Gaga took almost 2 1/2 minutes for her performance at Super Bowl 50. At the same time, Neil Diamond pumped out his version of the national anthem in just over a minute.

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Here is a history of MOST of the Super Bowl national anthems, as well as the length of time it took to perform them:

Super Bowl 58, Reba McEntire, 1 minute, 35 seconds
Super Bowl 57, Chris Stapleton, 2 minutes, 1 second
Super Bowl 56, Mickey Guyton, 1 minute, 55 seconds
Super Bowl 55, Jazmine Sullivan and Eric Church, 2 minutes, 16 seconds
Super Bowl 54, Demi Lovato, 1 minute, 49 seconds
Super Bowl 53, Gladys Knight, 2 minutes, 1 second
Super Bowl 52, Pink, 1 minute, 52 seconds
Super Bowl 51, Luke Bryan, 2 minutes, 4 seconds
Super Bowl 50, Lady Gaga, 2 minutes, 22 seconds
Super Bowl 49, Idina Menzel, 2 minutes, 4 seconds
Super Bowl 48, Renee Fleming, 2 minutes, 3 seconds
Super Bowl 47, Alicia Keys, 2 minutes, 36 seconds
Super Bowl 46, Kelly Clarkson, 1 minute, 34 seconds
Super Bowl 45, Christina Aguilera, 1 minute, 53 seconds
Super Bowl 44, Carrie Underwood, 1 minute, 47 seconds
Super Bowl 43, Jennifer Hudson, 2 minutes, 10 seconds
Super Bowl 42, Jordin Sparks, 1 minute, 54 seconds
Super Bowl 41, Billy Joel, 1 minute, 30 seconds
Super Bowl 40, Aaron Neville and Aretha Franklin, 2 minutes, 9 seconds
Super Bowl 39, Choirs of US Military Academies, 1 minute, 53 seconds
Super Bowl 38, Beyonce, 2 minutes, 9 seconds
Super Bowl 37, Dixie Chicks, 1 minute, 33 seconds
Super Bowl 36, Mariah Carey, 1 minute, 56 seconds
Super Bowl 35, Backstreet Boys, 1 minute, 49 seconds
Super Bowl 34, Faith Hill, 2 minutes
Super Bowl 33, Cher, 1 minute, 55 seconds
Super Bowl 32, Jewel, 1 minute, 27 seconds
Super Bowl 31, Luther Vandross, 1 minute, 53 seconds
Super Bowl 30, Vanessa Williams, 1 minute, 35 seconds
Super Bowl 29, Kathie Lee Gifford, 1 minute, 40 seconds
Super Bowl 28, Natalie Cole, 2 minutes, 33 seconds
Super Bowl 27, Garth Brooks, 1 minute, 44 seconds
Super Bowl 26, Harry Connick, Jr., 2 minutes, 6 seconds
Super Bowl 25, Whitney Houston, 1 minute, 56 seconds
Super Bowl 24, Aaron Neville, 1 minute, 25 seconds
Super Bowl 23, Billy Joel, 1 minute, 26 seconds
Super Bowl 22, Herb Alpert, 1 minute, 34 seconds
Super Bowl 21, Neil Diamond, 1 minute, 2 seconds
Super Bowl 20, Wynton Marsalis, 1 minute, 22 seconds
Super Bowl 19, San Francisco Boys and Girls Choirs, 1 minute, 21 seconds
Super Bowl 18, Barry Manilow, 1 minute, 34 seconds
Super Bowl 17, Leslie Easterbrook, 1 minute 33 seconds
Super Bowl 16, Diana Ross, 1 minute, 38 seconds
Super Bowl 15, Helen O'Connell, 1 minute, 22 seconds
Super Bowl 14, Cheryl Ladd, 1 minute, 18 seconds
Super Bowl 13, The Colgate Thirteen, 1 minute, 19 seconds
Super Bowl 12, Phyllis Kelly, -
Super Bowl 11, No Anthem
Super Bowl 10, Tom Sullivan, 1 minute, 54 seconds
Super Bowl 9, New Orleans Chapter of the Society for the Preservation of Barbershop Quartet Signing in America, 1 minute, 22 seconds
Super Bowl 8, Charley Pride, 1 minute, 10 seconds
Super Bowl 7, Little Angels of Chicago's Holy Angels Church, 1 minute, 12 seconds
Super Bowl 6, US Air Force Academy Chorale, 1 minute, 10 seconds
Super Bowl 5, Tommy Loy, 1 minute, 13 seconds
Super Bowl 4, Doc Severinsen, 1 minute, 26 seconds
Super Bowl 3, Lloyd Geisler, 1 minute, 27 seconds
Super Bowl 2, GSU Tiger Marching Band, -
Super Bowl 1, The Pride of Arizona, Michigan Marching Band and UCLA Choir, 1 minute, 16 seconds

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Super Bowl 59 will feature Jon Batiste signing the national anthem. There are a couple of Batiste national anthem performances online, which is why the line has settled at 120.5 seconds for the over/under.

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