NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stated Wednesday that the league won’t change Unhealthy Bunny as its headline performer for the Tremendous Bowl halftime present regardless of some criticism of the choice.
Goodell validated the league’s choice on the NFL’s fall assembly for Tremendous Bowl LX on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, Calif.
“He is one of many main and hottest entertainers on the earth,” Goodell stated. “That is what we attempt to obtain.”
The artist, whose title is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is a local of Puerto Rico, whose lyrics are largely in Spanish. Since 2019, Unhealthy Bunny has been a top-five streamed artist on the music platform Spotify yearly, together with essentially the most streams in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
“I am unsure we have ever chosen an artist the place we did not have some blowback or criticism,” Goodell stated. “It is fairly exhausting to do when you will have actually a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of individuals which can be watching.”
In a current interview on the conservative information community Newsmax, President Donald Trump referred to as the choice “completely ridiculous,” whereas additionally saying he was not acquainted with Unhealthy Bunny.
In 2022, Unhealthy Bunny had 18.5 billion steams on Spotify and was the second-most streamed artist in 2023 and the third most final yr. As of this month, Unhealthy Bunny’s 100.9 million followers on Spotify are ninth most of any artist on the platform.
“We’re assured it should be a fantastic present,” Goodell stated. “He understands the platform that he is on, and I believe it should be thrilling and a united second.”
–Area Stage Media
