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Billboard ranks the highest-paid musicians of the past 12 months
Sunday, May 8 2016 |
Elton comes in on #15, climbing from #35 in 2015.
Elton's residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas doubled his 2014 touring revenue. Streaming of his recordings rose $83,100 from the prior year, while sales fell $225,100 during the same period.
Elton John 2015 total revenue: $12.4M incl.
$614.2K from sales
$250.6K from streaming
$189.3K from publishing
$11.4M from touring
Complete TOP 20
- Taylor Swift (2015 total revenue: $73.5M)
- Kenny Chesney ($39.8M)
- The Rolling Stones ($39.6M)
- Billy Joel ($31.7M)
- One Direction ($24.2M)
- Greatful Dead ($23.8M)
- Luke Bryan ($23.1M)
- U2 ($21.8M)
- Adele ($20.5M)
- Marron 5 ($19.2M)
- Jason Aldean ($18.9M)
- Shania Twain ($14.4M)
- Dave Mathews Band ($14.1M)
- Madonna ($12.7M)
- Elton John ($12.4M)
- Rush ($12M)
- Ed Sheeran ($11.6M)
- Juan Gabriel ($11.6M)
- Florida Georgia Line ($11.5M)
- Fleetwood Mac ($11.3M)
METHODOLOGY: Money Makers was compiled with Nielsen Music and Billboard Boxscore, using 2015 U.S. data only. All revenue figures cited are Billboard estimates and may not equal the sum of the subcategories due to rounding. Revenue from merchandising, synchronization and sponsorship is not included. The following royalty rates, minus a 4 percent producer's fee, were used: album and track sales, 22 percent of retail revenue; streaming revenue, 22 percent for current artists and 50 percent for heritage artists. Publishing royalties were estimated using statutory mechanical rates for album and track sales; the Copyright Royalty Board streaming formula; and an average of $2.50 per play for hit radio and 60 cents per play for heritage spins. For labels' direct deals with interactive services, blended audio and video rates of, respectively, $0.0063 and $0.0015. (A 10 percent manager's fee was deducted from each category.) Touring revenue, after the manager's cut, equals 34 percent of an act's Boxscore. The top 10 lists for sales royalties were calculated based on physical and digital albums and track sales, the streaming royalty list, track on-demand audio and video streams, and estimated royalties from webcasting, SiriusXM and Music Choice.
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