By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com
Allegiant Stadium continues to draw non-sports events to the venue with Monday’s announcement that Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, the top-selling Latin artist, is including the Raiders’ NFL stadium as part of his 29-stadium tour in 2022.
Bad Bunny, whose real name is Benito Martínez Ocasio, is scheduled to perform at Allegiant Stadium on Sept. 23, which is a Friday.
The World’s Hottest Tour starts in Campus Stadium in Orlando Aug. 5 and includes 15 stadiums in the United States. Allegiant Stadium will be one of those stadiums.
The cities are in Orlando, Atlanta (Aug 9), Miami (Aug 12), Boston (Aug 18), Chicago (Aug 20), Washington DC (Aug 23), New York (Aug 27), Houston (Sept 1), San Antonio (Sept 7), Dallas (Sept 9), Oakland (Sept 14), San Diego (Sept 17), Las Vegas (Sept 23) and Phoenix (Sept 28).
Allegiant Stadium, home of the Las Vegas Raiders and UNLV’s football team, is hosting Billy Joel on Feb. 26, Academy of Country Music Awards on March 7 and the Red Hot Chili Peppers on Aug. 6.
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The stadium’s operators believe the venue will host at least 47 events a year. Southern Nevada invested $750 million to help build the domed stadium, which had a construction budget of $1.4 billion. The entire stadium project, which included items like land purchases, cost about $2 billion.
The next events at the stadium is Feb. 3 for the college all-star game, the East West Shrine Bowl, and three days later on Feb. 6 the stadium is scheduled to host the NFL’s all-star game, the Pro Bowl.