Charlie Puth set the stage for the 2026 Super Bowl with his performance of the National Anthem. The Grammy nominee, 34, sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, on Sunday, February 8, before the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots faced off in Super Bowl LX. Fred Beam joined in by performing the song in American Sign Language. The over/under was originally set at 120.5 at most sportsbooks, according to The Athletic, but that number dropped to 116.5 the morning of the game. It turns out that drop made sense - and the under still hit with ease. Though an official time has not been released as of this writing, most timers seemed to have it between 110 and 111 seconds. Puth announced his role in the 2026 Super Bowl via social media in November 2025. Beyonce! Gaga! Whitney! The Best Super Bowl National Anthem Performances "I can't believe I'm saying this," he wrote at the time. "I will be performing the National Anthem at Super Bowl LX." In the accompanying video, Puth attempted to explain the difficulty of singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." "Did you know that one of the most beautiful pieces of music also happens to be the hardest to sing?" he asked viewers. "Ah yes, 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is a piece of music that has extreme vocal range, but what do I mean by this? Most hard-to-sing songs span just one octave range, like a low D to a high D ... but 'The Star-Spangled Banner,' it goes from a low D to a high D plus one, two, three, four, five more notes, all the way up to a very high A." Puth then tried to use football terminology to clarify the technicalities to a group of players but eventually quipped, "I feel like I'm not really getting to you guys." Who Is Performing at the 2026 Super Bowl? Bad Bunny, Green Day and More In January, Puth revealed that he secured the opportunity to perform the National Anthem at the Super Bowl after he auditioned. "I actually have always wanted to do this, and I recorded a little demo, just me singing with the Rhodes and sent it to Roc Nation," he told Rolling Stone. "I've been told Jay-Z loved it, and it got to [NFL Commissioner Roger] Goodell and they all said that I could do it." Puth then named Whitney Houston's performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Super Bowl XXV in 1991 as "the best one ever done." "That and the Chris Stapleton one. That was raw. Made grown men cry," he said, referring to Stapleton's 2023 performance at Super Bowl LVII. "I just want to do my own thing with the hardest piece of music ever written. And I just wanna show people that I can do it. I feel like people don't really think of me as, like, a stand-alone vocalist at times." Stars at the Super Bowl Through the Years: Taylor Swift and More In December 2025, Puth defended his selection as the National Anthem performer after facing criticism from political commentator Link Lauren. "Man we've fallen from when Whitney Houston sang at the Super Bowl," Lauren wrote via X. "Charlie Puth? He's not gonna give us vocals I'm afraid." Puth reacted to Lauren's comments on the social media platform at the time. "I'll never claim to be as good of a singer as Whitney Houston ever was," he responded. "But I assure you we're putting a really special arrangement together - in D major. It'll be one of my best vocal performances." Lauren subsequently extended well-wishes to Puth, replying, "Can't wait. I wish you nothing but success but just miss our big belting divas like Whitney. What an era. Make sure they know it's D major and not B minor. Cheers Char!"