Céline reaches peak of the decade's Utimate Top 10

[Lawna]

Amazing.....

And you're welcome Celine lol.

 

Darren.

 

Congrats Celine

 

@Darren, I like that! haha I agree. You're welcome Celine

[smash]

Way to go Celine!! You show the rest of that lot, that you CELINE, the most down to earth, humble singer of them all,

and the most decent out of ALL those others, YOU BEAT them. You deserve it so much. LOVE YOU SO VERY MUCH.

[manu23]

Now all we know why she wants to come back to Vegas

But I like seeing her at the top.

Edited January 19, 2010 at 04:41 PM by manu23

[Prince Whiskers]

Great news!! But I wonder where they get the $522.2 million in concert-ticket sales in the last 10 years.

I thought she grossed over $400 million in Vegas and over 200 during the TC tour...?

 

 

exactly!!! i also wonder that same thing..

 

i am so happy for our queen..she's just awesome in every senses.

 

i love her so very much.

 

LV earned $380M; TC tour made more than $140M in N.America.

 

Isn't this great?! Eminem may be Billboard's Artist of the Decade but Celine is the ULTIMATE Artist of the Noughties.

[MTJ]

Is that revenue or net income?

[robert sadler]

Celine is the best of best and she kicks butt.

[Bellamy]

Is that revenue or net income?

Revenue.

[stevo]

That is truly astounding. It shows you that she is still a huge force to be reckoned with. That is an believeable amount of money. So proud of her!

[Céline's Blues]

That is truly astounding. It shows you that she is still a huge force to be reckoned with. That is an believeable amount of money. So proud of her!

Wish the same could be said about her artistic revenue which is like... 2 or 3 pennies if you count D'elles.

[GoldenLeaf]

Congrats Celine. I'm so happy to see her at the Top and she really deserves this achievement!

 

Madonna's tour grosses and ticket sales in North America in the 00s

 

Tour Gross Attendance Capacity Shows Sellouts

Drowned World Tour $54,684,228 440,500 440,500 28 28

Reinvention Tour $79,500,054 553,505 553,505 39 39

The Confessions Tour $85,842,663 466,653 466,653 34 34

Sticky & Sweet Tour $91,551,961 579,457 579,457 28 28

Total $311,578,906 2,040,115 2,040,115 129 129

Thank you! Now we know that her 4 Tours combined together only grossed $311,578,906 in North America in the 00s. Also, her ''American Life'' & ''Hard Candy'' albums flopped hard in this continent so I'm not surprised to see that Madonna isn't in the Top10.

Edited January 19, 2010 at 06:51 PM by Calypso

[CelineDionFan710]

that is amazing thanks!

[PatrickDion22]

Awesome!! I saw this on Google News, as well. Celine is, and will always be the queen of song.....and revenue!

[DoumDi]

And Even if TC made only 1 million, I read on billboard last year that she is one of the top selling artist in the US with her old albums. She sells every year tons of her old CD's. I think she is the second or the third best selling artist or her catalog albums. So it probablly explains this amount for sales.

[CSCfan]

Contactmusic has picked it up.....Now it's only a matter of times till this spreads like fire!

FINALLY people will see Céline can be #1, once again

[Selina286]

AH HA! IN YOUR FACE WHORIAH and Madonna! Thankyou oh so much for sharing! this is AWESOME!

 

How mature.

 

This is North American, right? Since it said it wouldn't have been able to count MJ's concert sales for This is It had he done them, since they were in London. Congrats, Celine!

 

actually MJ still would have not made that chart even if we was about to do the tour. He would have only worked for 3/4 of a year but Celine has worked for most of the decade and there's no way he can get that much money in so little time.

[CynthiaTDL]

And Even if TC made only 1 million, I read on billboard last year that she is one of the top selling artist in the US with her old albums. She sells every year tons of her old CD's. I think she is the second or the third best selling artist or her catalog albums. So it probablly explains this amount for sales.

 

 

Celine has sold the most albums in history with over 2oo+million. Elvis Presley continued selling albums after his death; he has sold 1billion. So imagine how big Celine's total will be in a 100 years. Colonel Parker never took Elvis out of the United States.

[Black Kitten]

no Mariah? no Madonna?

 

congrats, Celine! this only shows her career doesn't depend on hit singles and gimmicks. what a LEGENDARY woman!

[Xpresso]

And Even if TC made only 1 million, I read on billboard last year that she is one of the top selling artist in the US with her old albums. She sells every year tons of her old CD's. I think she is the second or the third best selling artist or her catalog albums. So it probablly explains this amount for sales.

 

 

Celine has sold the most albums in history with over 2oo+million. Elvis Presley continued selling albums after his death; he has sold 1billion. So imagine how big Celine's total will be in a 100 years. Colonel Parker never took Elvis out of the United States.

 

Hmmm Hmmm... He took Elvis to Canada!!

[Leo]

Madonna's tour grosses and ticket sales in North America in the 00s

 

Tour Gross Attendance Capacity Shows Sellouts

Drowned World Tour $54,684,228 440,500 440,500 28 28

Reinvention Tour $79,500,054 553,505 553,505 39 39

The Confessions Tour $85,842,663 466,653 466,653 34 34

Sticky & Sweet Tour $91,551,961 579,457 579,457 28 28

Total $311,578,906 2,040,115 2,040,115 129 129

 

I made a mistake and didn't add Mexico to Madonna's totals. I have an excel file organized by continents and I included the Mexico figures in Latin America. For comparison's purposes, as Celine's totals include two shows in Mexico, we should add Madonna's too.

 

Tour Gross Attendance Capacity Shows Sellouts

Drowned World Tour $54,684,228 440,500 440,500 28 28

Reinvention Tour $79,500,054 553,505 553,505 39 39

Confessions Tour $85,842,663 466,653 466,653 34 34

Sticky & Sweet Tour $101,980,704 683,727 683,727 30 30

Total $322,007,649 2,144,385 2,144,385 131 131

[Feidhlimbrennan]

lol there's no recession in the Dion household anyway! do you realise this works out at almost 1million pounds STERLNG per WEEK over 10 years!!!!

 

UK newspapere 'The Sun' covered this today with a small article and photo of Celine, giving the figures in sterling.

[Shaun]

Good spot!!

 

Here's a link to the article on The Sun's website.

 

CELINE DION is the music industry's top earner of the past decade, it was revealed yesterday.

The pop diva - famous for Oscar-winning ballad My Heart Will Go On - raked in a massive £460million in ten years.

 

Some £320million came from concert ticket sales, including her five-year stint at Caesar's Palace casino in Las Vegas.

 

The other £140million was from album sales.

 

US country singer KENNY CHESNEY - once married to Hollywood star RENEE ZELLWEGER - came second, followed by the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND.

 

THE BEATLES were in fourth place, earning £380million - forty years after their break-up.

 

U2 were close behind with £370million. The Irish band were the biggest earners of 2009.

 

Next were country star TOBY KEITH, rocker BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, the ROLLING STONES, singer-songwriter TIM McGRAW and pop princess BRITNEY SPEARS.

 

The LA Times survey combined album sales with concert takings.

[angelil78]

In the 90's, Céline was #23 in the best selling music artist in North America list

[Ray]

I love many singers and have seen many live in concert:

Madonna, Mariah, Toni Braxton, Michael Jackson, Kylie Minogue, Mylène Farmer, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, Lionel Richie, Diana Ross...

 

But the only ones who come close to Céline's live concerts are Michael Bublé and Tina Arena.

So all I can say: Céline deserves to 'win' this one!

Congratulations!

Edited January 20, 2010 at 07:59 PM by Ray

[stevo]

I love this!

[idroveallnight]

Very impressive. Celine deserves every penny. They should also add airline sales and hotel accommodations for traveling to Las Vegas since a majority of us only went there just to see her.

[smw]

Very impressive. Celine deserves every penny. They should also add airline sales and hotel accommodations for traveling to Las Vegas since a majority of us only went there just to see her.

 

Very, very, very true. It's amazing to think of ALL the people who went to Vegas for Celine.

[Javier_Natalio]

So those figures are revenue, uh? As in "money she gets to keep after everything is paid for"? And they are US of A only figures? wow the woman's RICH!!!! I mean we all knew she was, but WOW!!!

[Prince Whiskers]

That is truly astounding. It shows you that she is still a huge force to be reckoned with. That is an believeable amount of money. So proud of her!

Wish the same could be said about her artistic revenue which is like... 2 or 3 pennies if you count D'elles.

Oh, come off it, Sebolino. Your fave album by her (1f&4t) arrived in the 00's.

[Nmj]

It was a CELINE-ful decade

[GoldenLeaf]

So those figures are revenue, uh? As in "money she gets to keep after everything is paid for"? And they are US of A only figures? wow the woman's RICH!!!! I mean we all knew she was, but WOW!!!

Indeed. I'm sure she's billionaire.

Edited January 23, 2010 at 12:10 AM by Calypso