Billboard's top 40 money makers of 2011

[DaisyTweets]

Boy Lady A sure made alot of money opening for Tim.

 

[DaisyTweets]

Lady A made a ton of money for essentially being an opening act. Interesting. I know their sales were great, but I thought most $$ came from touring.

HA HA HA HA HA HA We both posted at the same time!!! LOL

 

[TOPDOG1001]

LOL! That is funny.

 

[Claire2004]

Well, whenever Carrie gets mad at the snub, that $$$ can make her feel a bit better.

Goodness, she has had to have made $50 mil + since Idol ended. And that probably doesn't even include her endorsement deals.

ETA:



FU ACM's.

How does one justify country music's top female touring artist of 2010 not having an EOTY nomination?
Sorry, I know I should be able to move on by now.....lol

 

[Jade_kt]

Wonder why Keith Urban isn't on that list?

 

[pgk]

What does this figure take into account?

 

[Claire2004]

^^I think I remember someone posting on another thread that KU did not tour much lately?

 

[Jade_kt]

^^^Well then they definitely probably don't expect him to win EOTY Keith Urban looks like the underdog in this race; more so than Toby Keith. Guess voting for KU would be making a statement if he were to win.

 

[TOPDOG1001]

Ahh this is what they say about Lady A.

Lady A also sold 6 million digital tracks, lifting the act's recorded-music royalties to more than $7.2 million. While music sales accounted for most of the trio's earnings during the year, it also grossed $2.6 million from 18 U.S. shows.

 

[TOPDOG1001]

What does this figure take into account?

This is what they say:

Our rankings take into consideration how much each artist earned from a wide range of income sources. In other words: We're looking here at closely estimated take-home pay. Net, not gross. The categories: touring; sales of physical albums, digital albums and digital tracks; tethered music downloads; on-demand music streams; noninteractive streams; and video streams. We compiled data on these categories for 2010, defined as the calendar year for Billboard Boxscore; and as the 52-week period ended Jan. 2, 2011, for Nielsen SoundScan data.

So, congratulations to everyone on the list-from Roger Waters to the Black Eyed Peas to Taylor Swift to Muse to, of course, Lady Gaga.

*Making Money Makers

Billboard editors used proprietary data from the Boxscore archives for U.S. concert grosses. We used SoundScan for sales of physical and digital albums and digital tracks. Data from Nielsen BDS provided information on tethered music downloads, on-demand music streams and noninteractive streaming at Myspace, Rhapsody, Napster, AOL, Yahoo, Slacker, MediaNet, Guvera and Thumbplay. Also included in our calculations were Vevo video plays, as well as video data compiled by online tracking service TubeMogul for Myspace, YouTube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and other video-hosting sites.

Corresponding mechanical rates and estimates were applied for each of the aforementioned categories. In calculating an artist's share of revenue from recorded-music sales, we assumed a royalty rate of 20%, minus producer fees. Artists received 100% credit for the sale of a title or concert Boxscore if credited as the lead artist and 50% credit if they shared equal billing with another artist. An example is the James Taylor/Carole King shows: We split the gross in two and calculated from there. We credited each artist with 34% of gross tour receipts (what's typically left after the promoter's fee, the artist manager's fee and other costs are subtracted).

An artist's take of revenue from on-demand streams was calculated based on the average wholesale rate paid to labels. Revenue from noninteractive streams was based on SoundExchange's rate settlement with webcasters. An artist's share of revenue from tethered downloads was calculated on the number of plays. In instances where the artist is a songwriter, Billboard estimated the share of songs written by that artist.

CD mechanical royalties for artist/songwriters were calculated by assuming the standard royalty rates. For digital album and track downloads, we used the current statutory rates, assuming 12 tracks per album. We also subtracted a 10% manager's fee for each revenue category.

What our figures don't include: revenue from merchandise sales, sponsorships, synchronization deals, international tour dates, songwriter performance royalties from terrestrial radio play, DVDs and ringtones. Why? There just isn't enough of that kind of data available across the whole board.

http://www.billboard.com/news/fergi...-40-money-makers-2011-1005031152.story?page=1

 

[allamericangirl8]

Did you guys see who made #26?

 

[Robert]

Did you guys see who made #26?

Sweet Baby James!!!

 

[Country_Carrie]

Wow that's amazing!!! Sooooo much money...I admire Carrie bc she donates so much to charity, that's a truly amazing person

 

[kaileigh]

That's awesome!! Look at those great numbers!! WOW! Too bad the ACM's are blind... Phew!!!Well, anyway ACM is rather afraid about Carrie winning EOTY for the third time. So to speak, maybe that's why they don't even nominated her... Because we all know that if they did, she'll win it AGAIN!

 

[allamericangirl8]

Sweet Baby James!!!

I counted wrong. I meant #27. LOL!

 

[cristina_7]

is that 13 mil only on music sales and concerts?

 

[carrieidol1]

Touring is where it's at for Country artists!

 

[undrwood9098]

Hmm...
Where's Miranda, Jason, and Keith? You know, THREE OUT OF SIX of the ACM EOTY nods? Ridiculous.

 

[yehchern]

What about Olay??How much carrie earn from tat??

 

[RachelLovesCarrie]

Wow so that doesn't even include Olay, Pedigree, or Vitamin Water (or any of her other sponsors). I'm sure she made a good amount of money from those Olay commercials/ads. Also any songwriting royalties (probably not much, but some!) and merchandise! wow Carrie made a lot of $$$$$$$ in 2010!