Кто зарабатывает всех больше. Список-2004

1. The Rolling Stones
$84.1 million

In 2002, when the "FORTY LICKS" tour began, the Stones were at Number Two on our list.What put them at Number One this year? The same thing that landed Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on the cover of Fortune: a tour that sold $212 million in tickets, catalog sales in the millions, an exclusive deal with Best Buy for their Forty Licks DVDs and a live HBO special worth $5 million. Three million fans saw them, and each spent an average of eleven dollars on merchandise. "There are things we could do better, more efficiently," says tour promoter Michael Cohl, who has worked with the band since 1989's Steel Wheels tour. "Some of the guys on the road with us are in their fifties, and they hit the road with us every time -- and that costs money. But we choose to be smart in other places."

2. Bruce Springsteen
$81.7 million

Most rock bands hire a promoter, take a nightly guarantee and then split the profits after the show is done, taking seventy to ninety-five percent of the profits before the promoter gets his share. Not Springsteen. His deal was the best in the business: He reportedly received a guarantee of seventy percent of the potential gross -- that is, if every ticket were sold in every corner of the arena. In many cases, sources say, promoters were hired for a mere $10,000 fee, saving millions in road costs. Profit margins are good when you go on tour without all the usual explosions, giant helium-filled props and revolving stages -- just the band and a black curtain. Fans also spent heavily on merchandise, especially during a ten-day stand in New Jersey, where they coughed up almost twenty dollars per head, the highest average in the business.

3. The Eagles
$62.9 million

Last year, the eagles were demanding a $750,000 guarantee per concert. This year, it was more than $1 million, and ticket prices were up almost twenty dollars. Sources say the Eagles also garnered $10 million in advance payments for their latest greatest-hits package, which earned Warner its money back long before the year was out. And the Eagles, like Springsteen, don't hit the road with massive lighting and rigging and production costs. The Eagles also score big on their publishing rights, which easily earn them more than $5 million a year in royalties.

4. Dixie Chicks
$39.8 million

After singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush while on tour in England, there were calls for a boycott of the Chicks' U.S. tour and rumors that Lipton, a tour sponsor, might pull out. In the end, it was nothing but hot air. Each of their sixty-five U.S. dates grossed more than $1 million, according to Pollstar. Also adding to the riches: The Chicks sued Sony Music in 2002 for underpayment on the 20 million albums they had already sold. They began to cash in on their new royalty rate this year, with 6 million copies sold of their latest, Home. Publishing is the Chicks' one weak spot: If they wrote more of their own material, they'd make even more.

5. Metallica
$39.1 million

Metallica rank with the beatles in the top five catalog sellers of the year, with 1.6 million copies of their old albums moving in the U.S. The band's new album, St. Anger, did all right, too, selling more than 1.5 million in the U.S. With catalog sales so strong, their label, Elektra, has no chance to drive down royalty payments with the usual record-company charge-backs for marketing and unsold units. When their deal came up for renewal, Metallica negotiated a royalty rate well above two dollars a unit. The Summer Sanitarium Tour grossed close to $50 million in the U.S.; gigs at big European festivals earned the band close to $1 million a night.

6. Toby Keith
$38.7 million

Keith, the king of country, topped the charts with the jingoistic and unfortunately named Shock N' Y'all. He grossed $44 million on the road last year while charging nearly twenty dollars less per seat than his nemeses the Dixie Chicks. And he does it all on the cheap, sources say, keeping cost percentages as low as the ticket prices. He sleeps on the bus with the boys on the road but flies home to his family on his private jet at the end of the touring week. Keith, already on a strong royalty deal from his label, DreamWorks, and a co-producer on all his albums, nets about two dollars per record. Last year he moved about 4 million units.

7. Bon Jovi
$36.1 million With support from sponsors Duracell and Best Buy, Bon Jovi grossed about $30 million on tour in the U.S. last year. The average ticket price was sixty dollars a seat, and the band took in an average of $560,000 a night. But Bon Jovi really rule overseas: They played the Amsterdam Arena in June, grossing more than $2 million; a stadium gig in Scotland made about as much.

8. Shania Twain
$36.1 million

Twain's 2002 double cd, Up!, has been a slow but steady seller, and a DVD of a show taped in Chicago made Billboard's top music-video sales chart. More than 600,000 people plunked down an average of sixty dollars at the live show as it made its way across the country, for a gross of $40 million.

9. Simon and Garfunkel
$35.8 million

"Two guys downstage center on a 360-degree platform," one venue owner says. "What's expensive about that?" Simon and Garfunkel had one of the lowest production costs of the year -- and some of the biggest grosses. They charged almost 500,000 people close to $140 each (Phish were lucky to get $50). The duo split nightly guarantees of $550,000 between them. Paul Simon pocketed the lion's share of the total take of their 600,000 album sales, because he fully owns his publishing catalog.

10. Cher
$33.8 million

Cher's farewell tour has stretched on for well more than a year now, revisiting cities she has already said goodbye to. Her show is still a spectacular, but she slimmed it down a bit, hitting the road with a scant ten trucks and buses. No worries: The multiple costume changes remained. Her latest hits package, The Very Best of Cher, topped the charts, and she played 102 U.S. gigs, with an average ticket price of sixty-five dollars.

11. Celine Dion
$33.1 million

Nearly 600,000 fans pulled up in Vegas and unloaded an average of $140 to see Dion, winning her the second spot on the Pollstar tally of top-concert grosses for the year with $80 million. Dion's deal with Caesars Palace included her own $95 million stage and arena, and guaranteed her $65 million for three years ('03 was the first). The majority of expenses normally incurred on the road, such as lighting, sound, security, truck drivers and riggers, are eliminated.

12. Fleetwood Mac
$32.5 million

Fleetwood Mac drew a reported $750,000 a night guarantee for their 2003 tour. But after weak ticket sales in some markets, the band reportedly gave promoter Artist Entertainment Group twenty more dates than it had planned to do, to help the company make up any lost profits. Fleetwood Mac ended up playing to more than 800,000 people and grossing $69 million in the U.S. alone.

13. Robbie Williams
$32.5 million

Still a myth in America, Williams continues to maintain his phenomenon status in Europe and Asia. Williams played stadiums to the tune of more than $50 million last year, and, in Europe alone, he went platinum six times over with albums such as Escapology and Live at Knebworth.

14. Christina Aguilera
$27.9 million

While Britney Spears took time off in 2003 to rest and plan a wedding, Aguilera was out on the road with Justin Timberlake for their Justified and Stripped tour. The duo sold out shows across the U.S. and Europe, and the tour helped move millions of records for her label, RCA, which in return saw fit to cut Aguilera a sizable check, sources say.

15. Jennifer Lopez
$29.1 million

J. Lo didn't release a new album in 2003; her principal revenues were from movies and fashion, and though Gigli was a bomb, Maid in Manhattan managed to approach the $100 million mark at the box office. Her royalties on the fragrances and clothing lines that bear her name helped pick up the slack.

16. Dave Matthews
$27.3 million

Last year, Matthews did another $47 million in U.S. ticket sales, playing for more than 1 million fans. Albums once again sold lightly, however, with his back catalog and a new release, Some Devil, slugging along at less than 2 million units. But with Matthews' ownership of his publishing and streamlined tour operation, the profits from the road stacked up well enough.

17. Jimmy Buffett
$25.8 million

He has this lifestyle-salesman thing down to a science now. Every day the cruise ships dock in Key West, Florida, and disgorge thousands of tourists, who line up at his Margaritaville shop to buy a Lost Shaker of Salt and a T-shirt. And every summer he trucks his band out to beachless places such as Cincinnati and Tinley Park, Illinois -- twenty-eight dates last year -- to wow the local Parrothead fanatics. Promoters, at this point, are lucky to get a modest fee in return for the $750,000 guarantee he gets.

18. Ice Cube
$25.7 million

Cube hasn't released a new cd since 2000, although his back catalog was just reissued. But his movie writing and producing pushed him to the top rap spot this year. His company, Cube Vision, has produced Barbershop and the Friday series. As an actor, he got more than $5 million for his role in this year's Torque. Barbershop did more than $100 million in home-video sales, and Cube Vision pocketed about $10 million from the project.

19. The Beatles
$25.6 million

The de-spectored Let it be . . . Naked did well for Apple, the band's company, but it was the release of the Anthology DVD at eighty dollars that put the Beatles on this list again this year, selling 203,000 units in 2003. Only Kid Rock sold more DVDs last year.

20. Norah Jones
$25.6 million

After winning eight grammys in February 2003, Jones went on to sell another 4.5 million of her already triple-platinum debut album, Come Away With Me, then played for another 209,000 fans on her U.S. tour. Sources say EMI (the parent company of her label, Blue Note) cut her a check for $20 million -- compensation for an album that helped shore up the flagging company.

21. Justin Timberlake
$24.7 million

Last summer, Timberlake had to pair up with Christina Aguilera to guarantee sellouts in U.S. arenas. They shared the stage, the rigging and lots of the same crew, and with seventeen trucks and buses, they had quite a load to carry. Overseas, though, Timberlake can tour leaner, and as a headliner in Europe, his guarantees rose as the tour progressed.

22. Elton John
$24.6 million

John works on a nightly guarantee of around $500,000, sources say, with or without Billy Joel, and he works tirelessly every year. Last year he played more than forty dates at that price, which would have been plenty, but he also released a greatest-hits album that, with his back catalog, has added more than a million units to his tally.

23. Coldplay
$23.7 million

Signed to EMI in London, Coldplay are benefiting from a record deal that pays them in euros, sources say, not dollars, which in today's economy gives them a little boost over the competition. Earning the band what works out to a $2.50 royalty per unit, Coldplay's two latest albums, A Rush of Blood to the Head and a live CD, have moved more than 7 million copies worldwide since late 2002. A video of their show -- which grossed $9 million in the U.S., was a top-five seller, at close to 400,000.

24. Queen Latifah
$23.3 million

She raps, and she sang in the movie Chicago, but Latifah isn't on the list because of her music sales. For the right film role, she can get a $12 million paycheck right now, and she even co-produced her recent hit with Steve Martin, Bringing Down the House. With endorsement deals from Pizza Hut and CoverGirl, and a clothing line for Wal-Mart, Latifah sources say that this year she stands to make north of $50 million.

25. Aerosmith
$22.5 million

26. Kiss
$22.1 million

Years ago, Aerosmith's manager David Krebs reportedly said that he would never let his band play on the same stage with Kiss. But he hasn't managed Aerosmith since 1984, and in 2003, the Aerosmith-Kiss double bill was netting each band more than $400,000 a night. Kiss' Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley (the other two guys are on the payroll) have a much larger merchandising arm -- they make more than $1 million in Kiss kitsch when the band is on the road. But Aerosmith sold more records from their catalog than Kiss did.

27. Kenny Chesney
$21.9 million

Chesney has become one of the most reliable country touring acts in the market. Like most country acts, his ticket prices are low, at thirty-six dollars, but he also moved more than 3 million records last year, which puts him in the Top Fifty.

28. Eminem
$20.8 million

There was no new Eminem record last year, so Em had to content himself with releasing the year's biggest seller, 50 Cent, through his Shady label, which he co-owns with Interscope and his manager, Paul Rosenberg. Shady also did solid business with G-Unit and Obie Trice. But all that is nothing compared to the reported $18 million that Interscope paid Eminem as compensation for the 2002 success of The Eminem Show and the soundtrack to 8 Mile.

29. Yanni
$20.5 million

His new album, Ethnicity, failed to go gold. So scoff if you will, but Yanni pulled in $25 million in the U.S. and became the first major performer to play India's Taj Mahal. An added bonus: his publishing royalties, which have included compositions for such unlike places as ABC's World News Now.

30. James Taylor
$20 million

In 2002, Taylor released his first new record in five years, October Road. This year, he built on that return by doing an ad campaign for MCI. His sixty-two shows in 2003 grossed $27 million, with no dancers, lasers or pyrotechnics to pay for.

31. Phish
$19.4 million

In 2003, the vermont jam kings found a way to bolster both their CD and merchandising sales: marketing CDs of live shows through their Web site. It's their touring business, of course, that keeps them on the list; in 2003, Phish grossed $36 million from more than 1 million fans.

32. Dr. Dre
$18.6 million

Dre produced one of the year's top singles, 50 Cent's "In Da Club," and reportedly got a $4 million payout when Eminem's 8 Mile went to video. His producing fees and airplay rights earned another $5 million.

33. John Mayer
$17.1 million

Between his september album, Heavier Things, which debuted at Number One, and his 2002 breakthrough, Room for Squares, Mayer sold close to 6 million albums last year. He adds to that his cut from the $22 million brought in by his tour with the Counting Crows.

34. 50 Cent
$16.9 million

Eminem paid $1 million to sign 50 cent when the bidding war for 50's debut album heated up. It turned into the year's best seller, and 50 can add his cut of his $29 million tour with Jay-Z.

35. Tim McGraw
$16.7 million

McGraw has been doing solid concert business for a decade. Last year, his road work brought in $32 million, and his back catalog sold more than 1 million.

36. R. Kelly
$14.4 million

It was a mixed year for Kelly, who was charged with twenty-one counts of child pornography in June 2002. But his new album, Chocolate Factory, was a solid hit, and his work for Big Tymers, Missy Elliott, B2K, the Isley Brothers and Britney Spears helped him inch past the Neptunes and Timbaland to become the top hip-hop producer and writer of 2003, with thirty charted singles, according to Billboard.

37. Matchbox Twenty
$14 million

Radio hits such as "Unwell" helped keep Matchbox Twenty a draw on the road, where they earned $21 million last year.

38. P. Diddy
$13.9 million

With his distribution deal with arista up, Puffy was reportedly looking for a $100 million bidder for his Bad Boy Records. He didn't find one. So he had to settle for a reported advance of $10 million from Universal/Motown for distribution rights. His real moneymaker was his stake in the Sean John clothing line, which did about $400 million in retail sales.

39. Billy Joel
$13.8 million

Joel's tour with Elton John brought in nightly performance guarantees of around $500,000. So why is John seventeen spots higher? Joel didn't do a solo tour in 2003, hasn't put out a new album since 1993 and doesn't write songs for Disney.

40. Brooks and Dunn
$13.6 million

Another touring force of the summertime circuit, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn hit the road with their Neon Circus and Wild West Show, pulling in $16 million.

41. Red Hot Chili Peppers
$13.4 million

Last year, the Chili Peppers tour ranked among the top grossers, with more than $20 million in ticket sales. Add to that strong sales for their latest album, By the Way, and a greatest-hits album.

42. Pearl Jam
$13.4 million

Still defying the ticketing industry with their fan-friendly stance, Pearl Jam, charging just thirty-seven dollars a seat, managed to pull in $30 million, netting them a guarantee of about $150,000 a night.

43. Paul McCartney
$13.3 million

McCartney ranked number one last year, and the final dates on his first tour in ten years spilled into 2003, earning him another $10 million. But a bigger source of income was his cut of the Beatles' publishing and catalog royalties.

44. Mana
$12.1 million

For years one of mexico's biggest bands, Mana enlisted the help of countryman Carlos Santana for their latest album, Revolucion de Amor, which propelled them into the hearts of more English speakers last year. A $10 million U.S. tour sealed their ranking.

45. The Dead
$11.4 million

The surviving members of the grateful Dead put their differences aside for thirty-two summer dates and did $11.4 million in business -- not bad, but far less than the $30 million a year they were able to earn on the road when Jerry Garcia was still alive.

46. Bill Gaither
$11.2 million

At sixty-eight years old, Gaither has been a powerhouse in the gospel world for more than thirty years. His Gaither and Friends Tour did a healthy $13 million in ticket sales last year in the U.S.

47. The Osbournes
$10.3 million

The Osbournes rounded out the top Ten in 2003, flush with contract-renewal money from MTV and a Pepsi endorsement deal. But this year, it's back to the old reliable virtues: the heavy-metal carnival known as Ozzfest, a perennial moneymaker since its debut in 1996.

48. Trans Siberian Orchestra
$10.3 million

Fans paid $16 million to see this New Age holiday phenomenon in 2003 and scooped up a million or so albums.

49. Radiohead
$10 million

Despite a relatively low average-ticket price of thirty-seven dollars, Radiohead grossed $13 million on their U.S. tour and moved about 500,000 albums.

50. Eros Ramazotti
$10 million

Like Robbie Williams, this Italian crooner is a virtual unknown in the U.S., but in Europe and South America, Ramazotti is hot. His sixty-date tour likely grossed near $15 million.

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Забавно и многое нам не понятно, менталитет другой, понимаешь ли :)

Да... уж...

Главное Роллинги впереди и не кто в этом не сомневается)))))

:)))
А Битлы вместе зарабатывают больше Пола по отдельности, это не странно?:))
А почему к Aerosmith комментариев не было? Это неправильно))

mARGO

Если бы Билл Гейтс разучил песенку какую-нибудь на гитарке и записал бы ей, то он был бы самым богатым музыкантом :)

2 MargoLennon
Комментарии к Aerosmith даны вместе с Kiss, т.к. у них была совместная гастроль.

2 Sever
Надо Гейтсу песню Jethro Tull выучить - Wicked Windows называется:))
2 Primal Scream
Сорри, не заметила..

mARGO