

About $100 million of the funds will be used to repay existing debt. DTLR Villa has 247 stores across 19 states. JD Sports is acquiring Baltimore-based athletic footwear and apparel brand DTLR Villa for $495 million. Last week, the group ended talks to go public with Billy Beane and Gerry Cardinale-led SPAC RedBall Acquisition.
#The weeknd spent money on halftime show professional
Two weeks after joining MLB’s Office of the Commissioner as a consultant around on-field rule changes, the decorated former GM and president of baseball operations is joining Arctos Sports Partners, a private equity firm that buys minority shares of professional clubs.Īs “executive-in-residence,” Epstein will advise owners of the teams the firm has invested in on various business matters.Įpstein reportedly made in the tens of millions in his final deal with the Chicago Cubs. Theo Epstein is quickly building out his post-Cubs career - and establishing a new path for former front office executives in the process. “We’re really going to take the experience from 12 minutes into six weeks,” he added about The Weeknd’s campaign. “I do think though consumers now are really looking for optimism and kind of a bit of escapism,” Pepsi VP of Marketing Todd Kaplan told CNBC. PepsiCo replaced its traditional Super Bowl ad slot this year with a massive lead-in campaign to the halftime show, which it has sponsored for 10 years. With only about 22,000 fans watching in-person this year, The Weeknd wanted to make the show more of a “cinematic experience.” Halftime shows have previously been valued around $13 million.

Last year’s Fox broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show attracted about 103 million viewers, more than five times that of the 2020 Grammys. His Super Bowl audience will far exceed the Grammys.

You owe me, my fans and the industry transparency,” he tweeted at the time. 1 radio song of 2020 with 3 billion impressions and has spent a record-setting 47 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.ĭespite the commercial success, the singer did not receive any Grammy nominations.

The Toronto native just wrapped up one of the best years in music industry history. The Weeknd spent $7 million of his own money to make the Super Bowl 55 halftime show “what he envisioned.”
