Celine on Billboard's 2010 Money Makers chart

[Ronny83]

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Celine Dion

$14,326,129

Last year, Celine Dion's take came almost entirely from 23 North America dates on her Taking Chances tour. This is her third year in a row on the Money Makers list; she came in at No. 5 last time, thanks to her residency at Caesars Palace's Colosseum in Las Vegas and her worldwide touring.

http://www.billboard.com/#/news/money-make...004071201.story

 

*Making Money Makers

 

For the first time, Billboard's annual Money Makers ranking, which is the most comprehensive report card of its kind, is based on the artist's share of revenue as opposed to total dollars generated by each artist in the ranking.

 

In compiling these rankings, the editors used proprietary data from the Billboard Boxscore archives (concert grosses), Nielsen SoundScan (sales of physical albums, digital albums and digital tracks), Nielsen BDS (tethered downloads, on-demand streams and noninteractive streaming at Rhapsody, Napster, AOL and Yahoo) and Nielsen RingScan (master ringtone sales), and then applied the corresponding mechanical rates and estimates where necessary for each category to determine the industry's top-earning artists. The ranking covers the one-year period from the first week of 2009 (which ended Jan. 4) through the last tracking week of the calendar year ended Jan. 3. It combines an artist's estimated take from those products with box-office results from concert performances that took place during the calendar year.

 

Sales data tallies all available titles for each artist during the tracking period. Artists receive 100% credit for sales of a title if credited as the lead artist or as an equally billed lead artist. In calculating an artist's share of revenue from recorded-music sales, Billboard used a royalty rate of 20% for superstars and 16% for newer artists, minus producer fees and the usual packaging and free-goods deductions for CDs.

 

An artist's take of revenue from on-demand streams was calculated based on the average wholesale rate paid to labels, while revenue from non-interactive streams was based on SoundExchange's rate settlement with webcasters. An artist's share of revenue from tethered downloads was calculated on an average-per-download basis. In instances when the artist is a songwriter, Billboard estimated the share of songs written by the artist. CD mechanical royalties for artist/songwriters were calculated by assuming the standard royalty rates. For digital downloads for track, album and ringtone sales, Billboard used the current statutory rates, assuming 12 tracks per album. Billboard also subtracted a 10% manager's fee for each revenue category. For touring revenue, we credited each artist with 34% of gross tour receipts, after the promoter's fee, the artist manager's fee and other costs are subtracted.

 

Our figures do not include revenue from merchandise sales, sponsorships, synchronization deals and songwriter performance royalties. The data used in this report was compiled and calculated by Billboard Research manager Gordon Murray, senior Billboard correspondent Ed Christman, Nielsen Music special projects manager Deborah Schwartz and Boxscore chart manager Bob Allen.

[riobeard11]

Oh you know...just making like $15 million for the last two months of her tour, no big deal or anything. That's what I make in two months for sure!

[Teodora]

14.3 million dollars? That's a great pay for someone who did nearly nothing in a year. On the other hand, she generated some hundred million dollars last year, so her share of all the money she makes doesn't really go into her account... I thought she had a bigger share. I mean, her Florida house alone cost her some 20 million dolars Still, not bad at all for a vacation year.

[ghazal]

i think 4 her its alittle low...!

[Prince Whiskers]

I think this is another underestimation by BB. Blah

[PatrickDion22]

From Billboard.com:

 

Celine Dion

$14,326,129

Last year, Celine Dion's take came almost entirely from 23 North America dates on her Taking Chances tour. This is her third year in a row on the Money Makers list; she came in at No. 5 last time, thanks to her residency at Caesars Palace's Colosseum in Las Vegas and her worldwide touring.

 

Source: http://www.billboard.com/#/news/money-make...004071201.story

 

Just as a comparison, Beyonce came in at #13 with $23.65 million and Madonna came in at #3 with $47.23 million. Oh, and Michael Jackson made the list at #20 with $17.30 million.

[MTJ]

pretty impressive for only working for what, two months?

[Céline's Blues]

I wish there was a Billboard quality music chart! Wonder where she’d chart there! :giggle: :blushing1: :blushing1:

[RLAAMJR.]

i hope Human Nature will also do well with sales.

[lindsey22]

YAY! But she isn't on this years Forbes list! SO HAPPY FOR THAT RICH GIRL!

 

I've given up on Forbes Magazine being non-biased for quite some time, now. They obviously cater to specific celebrities, and Celine is not one of them. That said, while she may have not garnered as much press attention as when she was on her world tour, she definitely should have had a spot on the list (there were over 2,000 news articles stating that Dion was pregnant with twins). Hell, even my local news station did a special on IVF treatments and singled out Celine as a celebrity who has undergone it. I apologize for the rant. I just do not trust Forbes...

yea i seriously dont trust them myself. it seems they are completely biased for Madonna and the the newest tart to enter the biz.