Most Watched Super Bowls, 1967 to 2026

What the data shows

• Super Bowl average US viewers: 51.2M in 1967, 124.9M in 2026 (2.4× higher). It peaked at 127.7M in 2025.

About this chart

The record is recent. Super Bowl LIX (Feb 9, 2025, Fox) averaged 127.7 million US viewers, with Super Bowl LX (Feb 8, 2026, NBC) second at 124.9 million and LVIII (2024, CBS) third at 120.25 million. Before 2024, Super Bowl XLIX in 2015 held the record at 114.44 million. The first game in 1967 averaged 51.18 million, a combined figure from CBS and NBC, which both carried it.

Audiences first reached 100 million with Super Bowl XLIV in 2010 at 106.48 million, and dipped to 95.2 million in the 2021 game during the pandemic. These are Nielsen average viewers for the English-language broadcast. Nielsen added out-of-home and streaming viewing in 2020 and 2021, so recent years are not strictly comparable with earlier ones, and totals including Spanish-language or streaming vary by outlet.

The data

Source: Wikipedia, Super Bowl television ratings (Nielsen average viewers, US, English-language broadcast). Retrieved November 4, 2026. Average viewers per Nielsen for the English-language broadcast, labelled by the calendar year of the game (e.g. 2026 = Super Bowl LX, Feb 8 2026). Super Bowl I (1967) was simulcast on CBS (26.75M) and NBC (24.43M); the 51.18M shown is their sum. Figures use revised Nielsen numbers (2021 is 95.2M after revision from 91.63M; 2023 is 114.21M after revision from 112.17M). Nielsen's method added out-of-home and streaming viewing in 2020-2021, so recent years are not strictly comparable with earlier ones. Totals including Spanish-language and streaming vary by outlet.