Rihanna will headline the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show after Taylor Swift reportedly turned it down. Here are 6 times musicians declined the coveted performance spot.

In 2019 Rihanna told Vogue that she rejected the halftime show due to political differences. The decision was an act of support for former NFL player and activist Colin Kaepernick, who peacefully protested police brutality in 2016 by taking a knee.

"I just couldn't be a sellout. I couldn't be an enabler," the pop star told the outlet. "There's things within that organization that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way," she continued.

On Sunday the "Work" singer confirmed via Instagram that she will headline the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show sponsored by Apple Music.

Rumors about a potential Swift performance at next year's Super Bowl began Thursday night after the NFL announced Apple Music would be taking over as the show's sponsor. According to Variety, fans speculated that Swift's ties to Apple, and upcoming album drop, meant that the pop singer would be performing.

According to sources who spoke with TMZ, Swift was offered the spot but declined in order to focus on rerecording her first six albums. So far, Swift has rerecorded and released two albums, "Red" and "Fearless," in order to own her masters after a public fallout with her former manager Scooter Braun.

In a 2020 interview with The New York Times, the rapper revealed that he turned down the opportunity because the NFL wanted control over who he could bring out for the performance.

Jay-Z said he was specifically asked to perform his 2009 hit "Run This Town" with Kanye West and Rihanna.

"I said, 'No, you get me.' That is not how you go about it, telling someone that they're going to do the halftime show contingent on who they bring," he told the outlet. "I said forget it. It was a principle thing."

Pink opened up about her decision to turn down the halftime show to Billboard in 2019, citing the potential for backlash amid her personal politics. "Everybody that does it gets so persecuted," she told the outlet.

The singer was also adamant about protesting the NFL's treatment of Kaepernick, stating "I'd probably take a knee and get carried out."

"They should only give it, because of the controversy, to African-American or Latina women for a while," Pink added.

Cardi B told the outlet that she felt like she owed it to Kaepernick to say no. "I got to sacrifice a lot of money to perform. But there's a man who sacrificed his job for us, so we got to stand behind him," Cardi B said.

In the interview, the rapper also talked about her husband Offset and his complicated relationship with football in light of his politics.

"He really wants to go to the Super Bowl, but he can't go to the Super Bowl, because he's got to stand for something," she continued.

After rumors swirled in 2016 that Adele would perform at the 2017 Super Bowl, she told a Los Angeles crowd that she had to reject the offer.

"First of all, I'm not doing the Super Bowl. I mean, come on, that show is not about music. And I don't really — I can't dance or anything like that. They were very kind, they did ask me, but I said no," Adele told the audience according to Billboard.

The next day, the NFL and Pepsi released a statement asserting that they never "extended a formal offer to Adele or anyone else."

In 2015, rapper Big Boi opened up about Outkast's invitation to perform at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show on ESPN's "The Dan LeBatard Show." He revealed that it was the other half of the beloved duo that refused to perform.

"[Andre] didn't want to cut the songs, he wanted to do the full songs. It was like, 'Nah, can't do it,'" Big Boi said.

Big Boi tried to convince André 3000 to agree, but he couldn't imagine cutting their hit songs "Hey Ya!" and "The Way You Move," according to the interview.