Rolling Stone's list of top earning artists last year

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Hello,

Here's an interesting article from Rolling Stone (yes, they do have interesting articles once in a while ;)) with last year's highest earning artists. Since U2 didn't tour, all their earning had to come from CD and iPod sales. Here's the bit they wrote about U2 (who ended 36th on the list):

36. U2
$13.9 MILLION

ON CD U2 get a $12 million payout from Interscope Records just for delivering an album -- which they did last year, with November's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The CD has sold 2 million copies, and a deluxe edition sold another 400,000 (they earn as much as five dollars a unit on the latter). A megabucks tour begins in March.
ON THE SIDE Apple and U2 are reportedly splitting a fifty-dollar markup placed on a U2-branded iPod.
Last year's rank: NA

Link for the full article: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/st...142205703&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040

BTW, the top earner was Prince.

C ya!

Marty
 
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