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Good album man
Good album man
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Older artists don't get robbed off illegal music DLs like a lot of pop and specially HipHop artists do, ya complaining about your Drakes, futures, etc etc stop illegally DL their music and support them.
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drake and future > eagles fleetwood mac, in terms of influence
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That's because Rap is trendy and we only see through the scope of being surrounded by people who like future and Drake.
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Quite possibly but check the number if you can of illegal downloads and how they compare?...Drake probably losing Millllls because of this, same goes for all other HipHop artists.
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what the hell did Future influence? 
dude is the T Pain of rap
dude is the T Pain of rap
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Shocked at how much the One Direction dudes are raking in 
:x :x,never knew they were doing it like that
:x :x,never knew they were doing it like that
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Shocked at how much the One Direction dudes are raking in
teen concert money
honestly knew one song by them, I guess they are the modern day Nsync
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Shocked at how much the One Direction dudes are raking in
teen concert money
honestly knew one song by them, I guess they are the modern day Nsync
Word to the Biebz
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Katy Perry a worldwide superstar, touring south america will get you paid
doesnt hurt that when they do tour, the cheapest tickets are like $200Me too. I looked it up and they haven't released anything new since 07 or something. I didn't see anything about a tour this years so I have no idea where any of that money came from.I was a bit surprised to see The Eagles on the list
thats why the eagles, fleetwood mac and other groupd like them are getting royalty checks from dudes sampling their music...
dudes being influenced by rock music and they dont even know it
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..So 2 dudes that've been in the music biz for 5 yrs or less are more influential than 2 of the biggest American bands of all time?.. 
..The Eagles' Greatest Hits album has sold approx. 30,000,000 copies, but yet Future is more influential?..You're funny my dude..
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The real power couple.
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I don't even like those bands but I seriously wonder the thoughts that go through NTers heads
saying Future is more influential would be like me saying DMX is more influential than the Rolling Stones in my younger days
in 10 years Future will be selling 2,000 albums week 1 and playing struggle concerts, Drake is a different story, his career is on the path to Jay Z greatness
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Michael Jackson's estate owns 50% of the publishing rights to at least a few of these artists music, and i'm only talking about the top 10. His family will be eating forever.
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40 years later and the eagles are still getting hotel california money
dudes have been influential for a decade before drake was a sperm cell
dudes have been influential for a decade before drake was a sperm cell
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owning beatles publishing is more than enough
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Adele’s 25 sold a record-smashing 3.38 million copies the week after its November 20th release—but even if her launch had fallen within our scoring period, she wouldn’t have been among music’s top earners. Touring is now the industry’s main moneymaker, and perhaps nobody better exemplifies this that this year’s highest-paid musician in the world: Katy Perry.
The Super Bowl halftime star pulled in $135 million over the past year, making her not only the highest-paid musician of the past year, but the top-earning celebrity on the planet after Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. She grossed more than $2 million per city over the course of her Prismatic World Tour, and pads her coffers with other deals from Claire’s, Coty and Covergirl.
“Music has changed,” she told FORBES in an interview for this year’s Celebrity 100 cover story. “The record is that launching pad for all kinds of other creative branches.”
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Perry played 126 shows in our scoring period, the most of any act among the top ten—nine of whom performed in at least 20 concerts over those 12 months. She’s immediately followed in the rankings by two other road warriors: One Direction ($130 million) and Garth Brooks ($90 million).
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The former is the biggest boy band in the world and the top-earning group of any sort, playing 74 dates during our scoring period—and generating seven-figure grosses at every stop—giving One Direction a payday twice as big as the Rolling Stones. Brooks, meanwhile, came back from semi-retirement to gross over $1 million per show, often with back-to-back shows in the same arena in one night.
Taylor Swift rounds out the top four with $80 million, boosted by the launch of 1989, the top release of 2014 with over 3.6 million copies sold. But again, the real money is on the road. Her 1989 Tour is grossing some $4 million per city, making her a top contender for the No. 1 spot on our list next year.
“It’s a stadium tour, it’s enormous,” said Gary Bongiovanni, chief of concert data outfit Pollstar. “I would imagine that she’s going to dwarf what everybody else does.”
To form our list, we looked at pretax income from June 2014-June 2015 from concerts, record sales, publishing, endorsements and other business ventures. As usual, we did not deduct fees for managers, agents and lawyers. We used data from Nielsen SoundScan, Pollstar and RIAA, and information from industry sources including some of the artists themselves.
Though there are two women in the top four and four in the top ten, the list reveals a troubling pay gap in the music business: there are only six females in the top 30, and that’s if you count both women of Fleetwood Mac. For some, that creates an added motivation to succeed—and to take pride in the fruits of their labor, as Katy Perry noted on Instagram earlier this year.
Katy Perry
There is, however, a decent amount of diversity on the list when it comes to age (from the youngsters of One Direction to 73-year-old Paul McCartney, who ranks No. 17 with $51.5 million) and genre (with Brooks leading the way in county, Diddy taking hip-hop’s cash crown with $60 million at No. 9, and Calvin Harris pacing all DJs with $66 million at No. 6).
Surprisingly, the top-earning couple on the list is not Jay Z and Beyoncé, who ranked No. 13 and 14 with $56 million and $54.5 million, respectively. That honor goes to Swift and Harris, who combined to earn $146 million, thanks mostly to endorsements and live shows.
Other highlights include Dr. Dre (No. 30, $33 million)—who fell from the top spot last year with a Beats-generated $620 million, the largest annual payday of any musician in history—and Ed Sheeran (No. 12, $57 million). The latter played 154 shows in our scoring period, more than any musician on this year’s list
Adele seems to have taken heed: she’s already plotting her next tour, with 40 dates planned through the end of May. That could well land her toward the top of next year’s rankings.
“Her huge first week is a result of the perfect storm of an artist having built up demand, a timeless and universally appealing style, great songs, likability, self-awareness and the most majestic voice in music,” said Will Griggs, a 30 Under 30 alum who cofounded Cantora Records. “There isn’t a formula or shortcut you can take in creating that sort of demand.”
The Super Bowl halftime star pulled in $135 million over the past year, making her not only the highest-paid musician of the past year, but the top-earning celebrity on the planet after Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. She grossed more than $2 million per city over the course of her Prismatic World Tour, and pads her coffers with other deals from Claire’s, Coty and Covergirl.
“Music has changed,” she told FORBES in an interview for this year’s Celebrity 100 cover story. “The record is that launching pad for all kinds of other creative branches.”
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The World's Highest-Paid Musicians of 2015
Launch Gallery
34 images
Perry played 126 shows in our scoring period, the most of any act among the top ten—nine of whom performed in at least 20 concerts over those 12 months. She’s immediately followed in the rankings by two other road warriors: One Direction ($130 million) and Garth Brooks ($90 million).
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The former is the biggest boy band in the world and the top-earning group of any sort, playing 74 dates during our scoring period—and generating seven-figure grosses at every stop—giving One Direction a payday twice as big as the Rolling Stones. Brooks, meanwhile, came back from semi-retirement to gross over $1 million per show, often with back-to-back shows in the same arena in one night.
Taylor Swift rounds out the top four with $80 million, boosted by the launch of 1989, the top release of 2014 with over 3.6 million copies sold. But again, the real money is on the road. Her 1989 Tour is grossing some $4 million per city, making her a top contender for the No. 1 spot on our list next year.
“It’s a stadium tour, it’s enormous,” said Gary Bongiovanni, chief of concert data outfit Pollstar. “I would imagine that she’s going to dwarf what everybody else does.”
To form our list, we looked at pretax income from June 2014-June 2015 from concerts, record sales, publishing, endorsements and other business ventures. As usual, we did not deduct fees for managers, agents and lawyers. We used data from Nielsen SoundScan, Pollstar and RIAA, and information from industry sources including some of the artists themselves.
Though there are two women in the top four and four in the top ten, the list reveals a troubling pay gap in the music business: there are only six females in the top 30, and that’s if you count both women of Fleetwood Mac. For some, that creates an added motivation to succeed—and to take pride in the fruits of their labor, as Katy Perry noted on Instagram earlier this year.
Katy Perry
There is, however, a decent amount of diversity on the list when it comes to age (from the youngsters of One Direction to 73-year-old Paul McCartney, who ranks No. 17 with $51.5 million) and genre (with Brooks leading the way in county, Diddy taking hip-hop’s cash crown with $60 million at No. 9, and Calvin Harris pacing all DJs with $66 million at No. 6).
Surprisingly, the top-earning couple on the list is not Jay Z and Beyoncé, who ranked No. 13 and 14 with $56 million and $54.5 million, respectively. That honor goes to Swift and Harris, who combined to earn $146 million, thanks mostly to endorsements and live shows.
Other highlights include Dr. Dre (No. 30, $33 million)—who fell from the top spot last year with a Beats-generated $620 million, the largest annual payday of any musician in history—and Ed Sheeran (No. 12, $57 million). The latter played 154 shows in our scoring period, more than any musician on this year’s list
Adele seems to have taken heed: she’s already plotting her next tour, with 40 dates planned through the end of May. That could well land her toward the top of next year’s rankings.
“Her huge first week is a result of the perfect storm of an artist having built up demand, a timeless and universally appealing style, great songs, likability, self-awareness and the most majestic voice in music,” said Will Griggs, a 30 Under 30 alum who cofounded Cantora Records. “There isn’t a formula or shortcut you can take in creating that sort of demand.”
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Adele's #'s next year are gonna be insane :x. I wouldn't even doubt if she went diamond by then
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Ill never support that racist *** beiber
Cant believe yall dudes in here supporting him
Cant believe yall dudes in here supporting him
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thunder only happens when it's raining.
#10 made 59 million and yall complaining about your favorite artist not being on the list?
And I've never heard of Fleetwood Mac or Calvin Harris before this thread.
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Ill never support that racist *** beiber
Cant believe yall dudes in here supporting him
he was 15
Usher and Floyd have already stood by him, it doesn't excuse it but people grow up and learn from things they do, if he did that now then that is a whole different story
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One direction is still popular? I thought they died 3 years ago