Can I firstly just say that Bruno did a brilliant job. He was seriously incredible. He has a talent that every generation can enjoy because he has that raw, timeless talent, and his songs follow that same pattern of being timeless. He is just damn good. But I have to say that I kinda agree with the people saying that the viewer ship numbers were up because of Beyonce's performance from last year. Yes she got 110 million views, which was lower then Madonna's so I can see why people are asking "How does that even make any sense?" But let me just suggest this. Do you remember the horrible and hilarious pictures form Beyonce's halftime show that went viral after the performance and were EVERYWHERE? And then people started photo-shopping them to make them even more hilarious and you could not escape them? Everyone who didn't see Beyonce perform at the superbowl probably saw those pictures (especially with the whole controversy of the publicist not wanting those pictures to be used at all and it completely backfiring) and then possibly watched it online to see what all the fuss was about, or if not it probably peaked their interest in the halftime show in and of itself. Also, every media outlet was ALL OVER Beyonce's Superbowl halftime show after she performed it. Huffington post, Buzzfeed, Time, RollingStone...It really was inescapable, whatever you thought of her actual performance. Heck, even the day off Bruno's Superbowl there were media outlets doing articles on/replaying the best gifs from Beyonce's halftime show again. Now I'm not saying this at all to take anything away from Bruno Mars, because he deserved those views in my opinion. His set, with the Chilli Peppers was just incredible. But I'm merely suggesting that Beyonce's reach could've been apart of the reason for his big viewer-ship numbers.