makes sense but would not have predicted roger waters was the second highest earning musician last year (dre first obv).
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
haha oh nm
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
In advance I want to apologize for the fellow gays who will comment on that article and rip the asshole to shreds for "hating on" Madonna.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
i thought it would be mccartney is why i googled it. take that were #5 top earner last year fwiw.
― balls, Thursday, 28 March 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
i'm almost certain sure she's a billionaire - that forbes estimate fails to account for her private investments, assets, royalties and her art collection that's worth hundreds of millions alone.
not that they're "hating" per se but i think there's been bad blood in the past with madonna refusing to release her private financial details to them (you can imagine what she's like) + other sources going out and calling her a billionaire first when forbes like to consider themselves the sole authority on this sort of thing mustn't have sat well with them.
we probably won't find out everything till she dies
― prolego, Friday, 29 March 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
i def think if she hadn't have managed to become a singer she would have ended up being a ceo of a huge corporation
― prolego, Friday, 29 March 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
she'd have been a dancer
― balls, Friday, 29 March 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
nothing pains me more than bono being the world's richest musician, just cause he bought up shares of facebook ten years ago
― prolego, Friday, 29 March 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
he also did the 1st and 5th highest grossing tours of all time, so not JUST because of that obviously
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Friday, 29 March 2013 05:13 (eleven years ago) link
Nah, Bono's earned it. According to Flanagan's book U2 tours were barely profitable until the mid-90s - they sunk so much money into the visuals, or whatever the hell they did pre-Achtung Baby, that they had to sell every ticket to pretty much break even.
On a related note, was it Madonna who raised the bar on ticket prices? I dimly recall top-act prices virtually trebling overnight at some point, and have a feeling she was the first to realise the Market could take it.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 29 March 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
It was the fucking Eagles who were first with $100 tickets.
Actually looked into seeing Waters last year, but tickets were $400. Interestingly, according to Mojo, Pink Floyd barely broke even on their 1994 tours because they didn't want to charge more than $40/ticket, but they had insane expenses.
― Darth Magus (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 29 March 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, just bumping so I can relive the magic :)
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 August 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
I can keep up with you
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 August 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link