{"id":49839,"date":"2026-07-16T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=49839"},"modified":"2026-07-16T06:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T10:55:07","slug":"post-malone-set-to-headline-2026-world-cup-closing-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/post-malone-set-to-headline-2026-world-cup-closing-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Malone Set To Headline 2026 World Cup Closing Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FIFA has announced\u00a0<strong>Post Malone<\/strong>\u00a0will be among the headliners at the closing ceremony of the 2026 World Cup Final on July 19th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 18-time Grammy nominee, who holds six Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 songs and three Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, will deliver what FIFA calls a &#8220;landmark performance&#8221; before the match begins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FIFA president Gianni Infantino said the ceremony will &#8220;celebrate the tournament&#8217;s journey and ignite the atmosphere.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfb6 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PostMalone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@postmalone<\/a> will headline the FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 Closing Ceremony! <br><br>The biggest <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> in history deserves the biggest send-off. Sunday 19 July. New York New Jersey Stadium. 90 minutes before the final.<\/p>&mdash; FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FIFAWorldCup\/status\/2077431751031283849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicole Scherzinger, Laura Pausini, and Robbie Williams will also perform, with Jennifer Hudson singing the national anthem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Cruise and streamer IShowSpeed will participate as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ceremony begins at 1:30 p.m., 90 minutes before kickoff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The halftime show will be co-headlined by BTS, Justin Bieber, Madonna, and Shakira.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FIFA has announced\u00a0Post Malone\u00a0will be among the headliners at the closing ceremony of the 2026 World Cup Final on July 19th. The 18-time Grammy nominee, who holds six Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 songs and three Billboard 200 No. 1 albums, will deliver what FIFA calls a &#8220;landmark performance&#8221; before the match begins. FIFA president","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":40395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7592,7593,7591,7594,495],"class_list":["post-49839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-closing-ceremony","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-final","tag-post-malone"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 03:58:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/post-malone-set-to-headline-2026-world-cup-closing-ceremony\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49840,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49839\/revisions\/49840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}