FIFA Halftime: Blink and You Missed Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira
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"FIFA Halftime: Blink and You Missed Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira" is generating significant coverage in the Sports category, with 5 articles from 5 distinct sources tracked by Newsylist so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include CBC, People.com, Yahoo Sports and The Guardian. Newsylist measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (7)
- First World Cup Halftime Show: Lots of Stars, Little Purpose The New York Times · 23h ago
- A cavalcade of international stars headlined the World Cup's first-ever halftime final show NPR · 23h ago
- Colourful World Cup halftime performance brings out Shakira, Madonna and Justin Bieber CBC · 23h ago
- Soccer Legend Wayne Rooney Calls Star-Studded World Cup Halftime Show ‘Crap’ in Candid On-Air Moment People.com · 23h ago
- Look: Madonna, Muppets, Shakira, BTS light up World Cup halftime show Yahoo Sports · 23h ago
- Hits, misses and Muppets: the star-studded World Cup half-time show nobody asked for The Guardian · 23h ago
- FIFA Halftime: Blink and You Missed Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira Variety · 23h ago broke it first
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