Posted on 02/22/2013 2:57:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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Shelton has certainly benefited from the visibility he's received as a coach on NBC's "The Voice." The country star spent much of last year touring, which earned him $3.1 million. The release of his 2012 holiday album, Cheers, It's Christmas, which debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, also added to his $2.2 million in revenue from album sales.
Unlike many of the artists on the Moneymakers list, Mumford & Sons earned most of its money in 2012 from album sales. As the biggest-selling rock act of that year, the band pocketed $3.7 million with the help of sales from its No. 1-debuting album Babel.
Stewart's 2012 live performances ranged from solo dates to co-headlining shows with Stevie Nicks, earning him $4.3 million. His holiday album, Merry Christmas, Baby, reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, contributing to $2.9 million in album sales revenue‹a healthy number for a veteran artist.
Last year, country group Zac Brown Band netted its second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with Uncaged and scored a pair of top 10 hits on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. The band earned $2.4 million from album sales, but the bulk of its revenue came from concerts ($2.8 million).
Ahead of his most recent album, Passione, released earlier this year, Italian tenor Bocelli earned $594,000 from 322,000 albums sold in 2012. But the majority of his income ($6.1 million) came from touring arenas.
Touring on the strength of its catalog, Journey spent much of 2012 playing sheds on an outing with Pat Benatar featuring Neil Giraldo and Loverboy. Journey's overall touring revenue for the year was $15.3 million, of which the band pocketed $5.1 million.
Jay-Z earned about $1.1 million from digital and physical album sales last year, but the bulk of his revenue‹$4.7 million‹came from Watch the Throne tour dates with fellow rapper Kanye West.
Behind Taylor Swift, Maroon 5 sold the most digital tracks of 2012, with 13.3 million, earning the band $2.4 million. In addition to hitting No. 2 on the Billboard 200, Maroon 5's 2012 album, Overexposed, was its first release to generate three top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Black Keys experienced a breakthrough year in 2012, embarking on its first North American arena-headlining tour behind its seventh album, El Camino. From a tour gross of $12.7 million, the duo earned $4.2 million.
Known for its epic live shows, Phish earned the overwhelming majority of its money in 2012 from touring. Multi-night runs across the United States last summer helped the band take home $7.2 million from live dates.
2013 Money Makers Methodology
The data used to compile Moneymakers was supplied by Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen BDS, YouTube and Billboard Boxscore. Artists are ranked by U.S. earnings, and Billboard calculated a variety of income streams, including touring, recorded-music sales, publishing royalties and revenue from an array of digital music and video services for downloads, as well as on-demand and noninteractive streaming. Due to a lack of sufficient data, our figures don't include revenue from sponsorships, merchandise sales or synchronization data.
For album and track sales, we assumed a royalty rate of 20% of retail, minus producers' fees. We treated all streaming revenue as derived from a licensing deal and thus split that revenue in half to calculate the artist's take. We also applied corresponding statutory mechanical rates for album and track sales and the Copyright Royalty Board-approved formulas or rates used for the various streaming channels, and further estimated the share of songs written by the artists. For all artist revenue, we subtracted a manager's fee of 10%. For box office, we credited each artist with 34% of gross receipts, typically what's left after the promoter's fee, the artist manager's cut and other costs are subtracted.
Gaga is actually pretty talented and she writes her own stuff. I was surprised to find that out when somebody directed me to her performance of ‘Edge of Glory’ on the Howard Stern Show, via YouTube. She’s not my cup of tea, but I have to give her props.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RS3XUEgWC0
Pretty much ditto what you said. I’m amazed that I have literally never heard of some of these. Jason Aldean? It’s like a random selection from a telephone book.
That's what I'm saying. What's going on here?
OTOH, apart from my half dozen Emmylou Harris albums I don't pay much attention to country.
Oh, I don't dislike Lady Gaga. She defines ambition. Unlike most of these manufactured, auto-tuned supermodel-looking "singers", plain 'ole Stefani Germanotta, a decidedly not supermodel-looking girl from New York did it all on her own. There wasn't some Svengali pulling strings behind the scenes. No focus group of industry insiders molding her image. She started out on the club circuit and through hard work, perseverance (and actual musical chops) climbed her way to the top. And I can appreciate this.
And she likes Iron Maiden so that's cool.
Mumford and Sons are probably the best, most talented band of the last 20 + years. What would make you think they were from Oregon, of all places??
Somewhere the signals bout Mumford and Sons got mixed on the way to my ears, that’s all. An Americana band from the UK? Who knew?
Folksy type music has become very popular in East London.
The whole Mumford and Sons Pukkelpop 2010 concert is on you tube, they are really really good.
I’ll check them out, thanks. In turn, let me recommend another Brit folk band that doesn’t seem to care about US success, Phat Bollard.
Listen to Mumford & Sons. Fantastic. Alternative Folk music. Unbelievably good live. Really great. The rest of that list is mostly crap.
Nickleback is on the list. Now you can really get sick.
I admit, I did like their “Rock Star” song though.
Blake Shelton-country (God Gave Me You)
Zac Brown-country (Goodbye In Her Eyes)
Miranda Lambert-country (Fastest Girl In Town)
Toby Keith-country (Courtesy of the Red White and Blue) (Hope on the rocks)
Rascal Flatts-country (Changed)
Eric Church-country (Like Jesus Does)
Carrie Underwood-country (Blown Away)(Two Black Cadillacs)
Brad Paisley-country (Southern Comfort Zone)
Lady Antebellum-country (Wanted You More)
Jason Aldean-country (Fly Over States)
Tim McGraw-country (One Of Those Nights)
Ahhh...another country music fan.
1 %’ers....
RE: What would make you think they were from Oregon, of all places??
The name sounds like a small business some American would have started and then passed on to his kids.
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