On February 8, Bad Bunny will star in the halftime show Super Bowl LX. Looking ahead to the event at Levi’s Stadium de Santa Clara, Californiathe Latin artist already has his show prepared. In this context, a curiosity is that the National Football League (NFL) will not pay to the singer for the presentation. This is a tradition that the league has with artists.
As happens every year, Bad Bunny You will not receive payment for performing the show. Beyond the exhibition and the prestige that participating in the event means for an artist, it is done almost free of charge.
As stated Peoplethe NFL is responsible for covering certain operating costs and pays artists according to the union pay scalewhich requires paying a amount of just over 1000 dollars a day. This represents only a fraction of the sums that the most recognized artists worldwide usually obtain for their shows.
In addition to this, the American football league takes care of all the logistics which involves putting together the show and providing travel expenses to the artists, in this case to Bad Bunny.
In the past, controversy regarding payments also reached the dancersbased on a case that gave rise to new regulations. During the presentation of The Weeknd in it Super Bowl 2021, half of them did not receive any compensationas reported Los Angeles Times.
Those dancers shared the stage with the other half of those hired To this end, they received a charge of US$712 for the show itself and US$45 for each hour of rehearsal.
From the scandal, a negotiation between the union and the organizerswho agreed in the future not to seek volunteers for the Super Bowl and to pay the corresponding financial compensation to each dancer.
In addition to not paying the musicians who headline the Super Bowl editions for the show, before the 2015 edition the organization wanted to promote a decision that generated rejection from the artists.
While negotiating who would headline the event, the NFL approached several figures with the possibility of pay to appear. In these talks, the organization slipped that idea to Rihanna, Coldplay y Katy Perrywho eventually headlined the Super Bowl.
However, according to what he told Forbesacted for free, but did not agree to make a financial contribution.
Beyond that Bad Bunny will headline the halftime show and will be the face of Super Bowl LX, the organization also confirmed the presence of Green Day.
The group will perform at the opening ceremony and will be part of the music that fans can enjoy at Levi’s Stadium before the start of the game, according to CNN.
