U2er,
Take those numbers with a grain of salt. They are from Rolling Stone and not based neccessarily on objective factual info. Thats what Rolling Stone said itself. How much money made it into U2s pockets on Elevation is not known. It is known that the band Grossed from just ticket sales, $143,000,000. The question is how much was cost for the 8 month 113 show tour. Clearly it was a lot less than the $214,000 dollar a day POPMART tour. Elevation tour may have cost as little as $70,000 dollars a day leading to an overall cost of only 17 million! That leaves U2 with a net of 126 million from just ticket sales alone! U2 also recieves royalties on average of $4 from the sale of each album. ATYCLB has sold 11 million copies and add another 4 million for catalog sales and you have $60 million in revenue from just album sales over the past 18 months!