Kaskade to replace Tiësto at Super Bowl 2024 as the big game’s first-ever official DJ

DJ Tiesto announced he was pulling out of the Super Bowl three days before Sunday’s big game.

They’re putting a new DJ in the game.

Kaskade has stepped up to replace Tiësto as the Super Bowl’s first in-game DJ — after the latter was forced to pull out of the gig due to a “personal family emergency,” Page Six has exclusively learned.

“As a kid who grew up in Chicago watching the Super Bowl every year with my family, this chance to be part of it is absolutely mind-blowing,” Kaskade said in a statement.

Tiësto was set to perform at the Super Bowl as the big game’s first ever official DJ — but those plans were scrapped on Thursday, just days before Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers are set to face off in Las Vegas.

The DJ had to scrap his performance due to a family emergency.

“Me and my team have been preparing something truly special for months, but a personal family emergency is forcing me to return home Sunday morning,” Tiësto wrote on X.  

“It was a tough decision to miss the game, but family always comes first. Thank you to the @NFL for the collaboration and looking forward to working with them to deliver something incredible together in the future!” he added.

The NFL, however, has struck gold with its backup pick, Kaskade, whose site describes him as “the first DJ to conceptualize and hold down the now Pop-Star littered landscape of the Las Vegas residency.”

“Las Vegas has been my second home for the past decade, as an architect of creating a landscape that includes House and Dance Music residencies as part of its destination,” Kaskade said in a statement.

Kaskade will be the Super Bowl’s official DJ on Sunday. NFL

“To be able to be the first Electronic Musician to be part of the full game experience of the Super Bowl held in Las Vegas seems like coming home, and I’m beyond excited to represent my community,” he wrote.

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Usher is playing the highly anticipated Super Bowl 2024 halftime show on Sunday at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nev.

Kaskade says he’s beyond excited to represent Vegas at the Super Bowl. AFP via Getty Images

The R&B star teased what fans can expect from his set during a press conference hosted by Apple Music in Las Vegas on Thursday morning.

“There has been these fantasy lists that have been going out, people trying to figure out what song I’m going to perform first, middle, last,” Usher, 45, told a crowd of reporters, including Page Six.

“I was very mindful of my past, celebrating my present, which is here in Las Vegas, and thinking about where we’re headed in the future. And that was really the idea.”