The NFL Is Making Musicians Pay to Play the Super Bowl

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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
by Paul Resnikoff

Superbowl salaries:
$46,000 per losing player
$92,000 per winning player

Earlier this year, we found out that artists weren’t getting paid at all to perform the Super Bowl halftime. Now, the National Football League (NFL) is requiring artists to pay for the privilege. “The NFL has narrowed down the list of potential performers for the 2015 Super Bowl to three candidates: Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Coldplay,” the Wall Street Journal just reported.

“While notifying the artists’ camps of their candidacy, league representatives also asked at least some of the acts if they would be willing to contribute a portion of their post-Super Bowl tour income to the league, or if they would make some other type of financial contribution, in exchange for the halftime gig.”

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