Was Rihanna first billionaire to headline Super Bowl halftime show?

Rihanna made history at the Super Bowl halftime show in more ways than one. Despite the show routinely boasting the biggest and brightest stars in music, the nine-time Grammy winner is the first female billionaire to perform a halftime show.

Paul McCartney performed in 2005 and is the only other billionaire to ever perform. He has a net worth of about $1.2 billion, so Rihanna is now the richest person to have done the show.

Rihanna's net worth is estimated to be $1.4 billion, which is far above many of her halftime show counterparts. She is one of the most successful recording artists of all time, but her billionaire status largely comes from her beauty brand.

Fenty Beauty is an extremely successful brand and she even promoted it during the show by touching up her makeup with it.

Here's how she stacks up to other recent halftime performers' net worths:

• Rihanna- $1.4 billion
• Dr. Dre- $800 million, Eminem- $230 million, Snoop Dogg- $165 million, Kendrick Lamar- $75 million, Mary J. Blige- $20 million
• The Weeknd- $300 million
• Travis Scott- $60 million
• Shakira- $300 million
• Justin Timberlake- $250 million
• Lady Gaga- $320 million
• Beyonce- $500 million
• Madonna- $850 million

There have been a few near-billionaires to grace the Super Bowl halftime show, but in almost 20 years, Rihanna has been the only one to exceed the mark.

She is also the first known pregnant person to perform the halftime show, a fact she confirmed for the world yesterday.

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What happened at the Super Bowl?

Bookending an epic halftime show from Rihanna, two epic halves of football were played between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Eagles played a nearly flawless first half, with only one mistake on a Jalen Hurts fumble returned for the Chiefs' second score. Despite that, they led 24-14.

In the second half, Patrick Mahomes and company came alive - scoring on every single possession.

The Chiefs captured the Super Bowl win

They took a 35-27 lead before Hurts led the Eagles back to tie the game. Mahomes and the Chiefs embarked on a nearly five-minute field goal drive to leave the Eagles no time to score. KC thus captured their second Super Bowl in the last five years.