Viewers tuned into the Democratic National Convention’s final night on Thursday en masse, spiking during Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech and around when a highly anticipated special guest, rumored to be Beyoncé, was proposed to show up.

Speculation had been rife throughout the day that a musical heavyweight, likely Beyoncé or Taylor Swift, would show for a performance. Anticipation reached a fever pitch when celebrity news outlet TMZ reported Beyoncé was indeed going to perform, but it proved incorrect.