Tuesday 5th February 2013 by Grace Carroll | Photos by WENN

Tags: Beyonce

Beyonce's halftime show helped to make the Super Bowl the third most popular TV show ever.

The 2013 Super Bowl was the third most watched TV show ever, with the thirty-five minute blackout not being taken into consideration.

Nielsen data shows that 108.41 million people watched the Super Bowl, with 104 million watching the segment that included Beyonce's halftime performance.

However, both the Super Bowl XLVI and the Super Bowl XLV are in first and second place, respectively, in terms of the most watched TV shows.

Madonna's halftime performance pushed the XLVI event into first place with 114 million viewers, defeating the previous record held by Michael Jackson.

And oddly enough, Beyonce even fell behind the XLV event, which featured a halftime show including a medley from The Black Eyed Peas, a guest appearance from Slash and Usher performing his hit 'OMG' with Will.i.am.

Madonna's halftime Super Bowl performance was the most watched TV show ever

Beyonce and Destiny's Child also saw their sales increase following the halftime performance.

Destiny's Child's digital song sales rose by 600%, with Beyonce's solo sales increasing by 230% - the most popular song being 'Halo', which Beyonce sang to close her set.

Watch a video of Beyonce's Super Bowl performance below - and decide for yourself how it measures up:

Check out all the photos from Beyonce's Super Bowl performance: Destiny's Child and more