performing a
mash-up of "Music" and "
Sexy and I Know it" at the
Super Bowl XLVI halftime show on February 5, 2012 The first live performance of "Music" took place during the promotional concerts for the album, held on November 5, 2000, at New York City's
Roseland Ballroom, and on November 29 at London's
Brixton Academy. During the New York performance, she wore a black tank top with "
Britney Spears" written on it, along with cowboy hats and boots. On November 16, 2000, Madonna performed "Music" during the
MTV Europe Music Awards 2000. She was introduced by
Ali G as "
Maradona" and wore a tank top with "
Kylie Minogue" printed on it. A day later, she later performed "Music" and "
Don't Tell Me" on British television program
Top of The Pops and one week later on French television program
Nulle Part Ailleurs. On February 21, 2001, Madonna opened the 43rd Grammy Awards with a performance of the track. The stage had five giant video screens, which showed clippings from her career. Madonna entered the stage in a
Cadillac driven by rapper
Bow Wow. She emerged dressed in a full-length fur coat, which she removed to reveal a tight leather jacket and jeans. She took off the jacket to reveal a black tank top with the words "
Material Girl" and performed the song, joined by backup singers
Niki Haris and
Donna De Lory. For the
Drowned World Tour in the same year, "Music" was used as the final encore. Madonna wore tight black jeans and a customized
Dolce & Gabbana halter top that proclaimed "Mother" in the front and "F*cker" in the back. She sang the song surrounded by her dancers, while images from her past music videos were displayed on the backdrops. In his review,
NMEs Alex Needham commented that the performance "underlines how easily [Madonna] could have brought the audience to collective orgasm by simply reeling out her classics". The performance on August 26, 2001, at
The Palace of Auburn Hills was recorded and released in the live
video album,
Drowned World Tour 2001. "Music" was later added to the
Re-Invention World Tour of 2004. Set to a slower,
hip-hop inspired remix, the performance featured Madonna and her dancers wearing
Scottish kilts and a lighted staircase surrounding a
DJ Station. At the end, Madonna and her dancers lifted up their kilts to spell the word "FREEDOM", with glitter letters on their underpants. MTV's Corey Moss opined that during the performance "Madonna and her dancers transformed the arena into a steamy nightclub". The next year, Madonna performed "Music" at the
Live 8 benefit concert in London. On the 2006
Confessions Tour, Madonna performed "Music Inferno", a
mashup of "Music" and
The Trammps's "
Disco Inferno". It began with several dancers on roller skates emerging from beneath the stage to perform "
Xanadu-worthy tricks", while the stage was bathed in deep red lights. Madonna appeared wearing a white suit and performed the track; the performance also included a sample from her song "Where's The Party", from her third studio album
True Blue (1986), at the beginning. Halfway through the performance, Madonna walked to the center stage where, according to MTV's Corey Moss, she did "her best
Saturday Night Fever-era
John Travolta routine, complete with the 'hitchhike' (you know, thumbs to the side)". The performance of the song at the August 15–16, 2006 shows in
London, at the
Wembley Arena, were recorded and included on Madonna's second live album,
The Confessions Tour (2007). (2015–2016) "Music" was the closing song on the
Hard Candy Promo Tour. Madonna wore a skintight black suit and a lace top, and began the performance by singing the song at the very front of the stage
a cappella, before all her dancers joined. It ended with Madonna racing up the stage to the subway doors, behind which she disappeared. It was also included as the last song of the
Old School segment of her
Sticky & Sweet Tour (2008–09), where Madonna performed the same version as the promotional tour, but sampling
Indeep's "
Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" at the beginning as well as
mashing it up with
Fedde le Grand's "
Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit"; the backdrop screens depicting a graffiti-splattered
New York City Subway train. Madonna's outfit, a pair of gym shorts with long socks and sneakers, was a reference to her old days in New York. The performance of the song at
River Plate Stadium of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was recorded and released on the live CD-DVD album,
Sticky & Sweet Tour (2010). In 2012, Madonna included the song on her
Super Bowl XLVI halftime show set list, where it was remixed with
LMFAO's "
Party Rock Anthem" and "
Sexy and I Know It". The same year, she performed it on
The MDNA Tour at New York City's
Madison Square Garden, on November 13. She invited South Korean rapper
Psy and performed together his song "
Gangnam Style" and her 2008 single, "
Give It 2 Me". "Music" opened the final section of the
Rebel Heart Tour (2015–2016), with Madonna decked in a "Harlem-flapper-meets-Paris-in-the-Twenties" dress, adorned with thousands of
Swarovski crystals. The song "began as a
Jazz Age ballad before kicking into banger mode". Joe Lynch from
Billboard, opined that "the presence of 'Music' was an effective reminder that while some compulsive naysayers tsk the Queen of Pop for trend chasing with
Diplo, she brought techno to the pop mainstream years before
EDM was an ubiquitous term". On December 6, 2016, Madonna performed "Music" during the
Carpool Karaoke segment of
The Late Late Show with James Corden. On April 30, 2022, Madonna joined singer
Maluma during his Medallo en el mapa concert in
Medellín, Colombia to perform "Music" along with their 2019 single "
Medellín". The song's refrain was also incorporated into the encore of Madonna's
The Celebration Tour in 2023. The full version of the song was also included on the final show of the Celebration Tour, on
Copacabana beach. The rendition featured
samba music, elements of her
Madame X song "Faz Gostoso" and the crew dressed in the Brazil flag with Madonna and
Pabllo Vittar dancing together on stage. ==Cover versions and media appearance==