I Auditioned For My Super Bowl 2026 National Anthem Gig – Charlie Puth

Charlie Puth

Popular singer Charlie Puth has said that he auditioned for his upcoming national anthem performance at the Super Bowl. He recently had his say during an interview with Rolling Stone, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he recorded a demo of himself singing the anthem with the Rhodes and sent it to Roc Nation, and Jay-Z  loved it.

Puth added that it’ll be a great honour to perform at the Super Bowl, and he hopes to show his stand-alone vocalist skills.

His words, “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. 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.

I applied. I auditioned for it, but I made up my own audition because I’ve always wanted to do it ­— because I love it musically. It’s the best song. Musically, it’s so special.

I feel pressure to perform on par with Whitney Houston’s national anthem performance in 1991.

She’s from Newark. And I would be the second New Jersey native to sing the national anthem. It’s a great honor. I’m going to be inspired by what Whitney did, but I can’t ever touch what she did.

That’s the best one ever done — that and the Chris Stapleton one. That was raw. Made grown men cry. 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.”

WOW.