Top Earning Musicians 2010
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Once again, U2 is named the highest earning band on the Forbes Top Earning Musicians of 2010 List, even with their postponed tour in the US due to Bono’s back injury.
Between June of 2009 up until June of this year, U2 earned a total amount of about $130 million, which was mainly made from their monstrous tour so far. It’s kind of ridiculous that even with the delay in touring that they can still lead the way, but it’s definitely good for them if they can maintain and gain more fans over all this time they’ve been around. But due to the lack of new material being released by the band, Forbes predicts that their annual income will steadily decrease, as fans will be getting sick of spending such large amounts of money to hear and see the same things over and over again. Gary Bongiovanni, editor of Pollstar, had this to say to Forbes:
“Everybody was surprised by how well the business held up last year, despite the economy crashing around us. In today’s world artists have to tour to make money because they can’t just sit at home and collect royalties.”
With downloading being more popular than ever, and people getting their music in any free ways possible, it’s obvious that this would be true. And with the economy still pretty down, it’s an amazement how people are still even willing to pay some of these crazy prices just for a concert.
The rest of the top 10 top earning musicians list was pretty predictable. Coming in at number 2, earning $114 million a year, was AC/DC, who have been another prominent band through the decades.
Beyonce Knowles took the number 3 spot earning about $82 million, which is a considerable margin from AC/DC’s amount.
At number 4 was Bruce Springsteen, who earned roughly $68.7 million this past year, followed by Britney Spears at number 5 with $64 million earned this past year. Jay-Z came in at number 6, earning $62 million, which obviously doesn’t include the other amounts of money he has made in the other forms of business he participates in, and the businesses he owns.
The constant center of attention, Lady Gaga, made the number 7 spot, earning $61 million, even with her seemingly never-ending tour, which probably should have bumped her up a few spots. Lady Gaga did however beat out her obvious idol, Madonna, who came in at number 8 earning $58 million this past year.
Kenny Chesney surprisingly took the number 9 spot, earning around $50 million, which may not be so out of the ordinary to fans of country music who follow the stars success. And tied at number 10 was Coldplay and the Black Eyed Peas, who equally earned about $47 million this past year.
Posted on 07/20/10
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