big bang is getting dat money

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

BIGBANG has been named by Forbes as one of the highest-earning international celebrities under the age of 30!

On November 15, Forbes revealed the top 30 celebrities to make it into the list, and BIGBANG represented K-Pop in 13th place in the ranking and banking $44 million over the past year.

The full top 30 top ranking this year is as follows:

1. Taylor Swift ($170 million) (OP: lol who else)
2. One Direction ($110 million)
3. Lionel Messi ($81.5 million)
4. Adele ($80.5 million)
5. Rihanna ($75 million)
6. Justin Bieber ($56 million; tie)
6. Novak Djokovic ($56 million; tie)
6. Kevin Durant ($56 million; tie)
9. The Weeknd ($55 million)
10. Cam Newton ($53 million; tie)
10. Jordan Spieth ($53 million; tie)
12. Jennifer Lawrence ($46 million)
13. BIGBANG ($44 million)
14. Rory McIlroy ($42.5 million)
15. Russell Wilson ($42 million)
16. Sebastian Vettel ($41 million) (OP: yas get it bae)
17. Drake ($38 million)
18. Rafael Nadal ($37.5 million; tie)
18. Neymar ($37.5 million; tie)
20. Gareth Bale ($36 million)
21. Marcell Dareus ($35 million)
22. Derrick Rose ($34 million)
23. A.J. Green ($33.5 million; tie)
23. Kei Nishikori ($33.5 million; tie)
23. Ed Sheeran ($33.5 million; tie)
26. James Harden ($33 million)
27. Usain Bolt ($32.5 million)
28. Clayton Kershaw ($32 million)
29. Olivier Vernon ($32 million)
30. Kyrie Irving ($28.5 million)

Meanwhile, BIGBANG also made it into the 2016 Forbes Celebrity 100 list, which ranks the highest-earning celebrities worldwide. BIGBANG became the first K-Pop act to land on the Celebrity 100 list and were revealed to have made more than American band Maroon 5 this past year.

sources: soompi naver forbes 1 2

Comments

[dynamite-state.livejournal.com]

remind me again why I am not rich

[jileader.livejournal.com]

Well damn
Is that only for group activities or does it include their individual earnings as well?

Lol @ Neymar hahaha
At least someone from my country

[sayuridoll.livejournal.com]

i wonder how much of that money they get to take after all expenses are accounted for

anyway get money

[fifi-moon.livejournal.com]

I think the YG kids do better than the SM kids. YG lets them keep all their publishing royalties, whereas within SM historically (i know it was a major bone of contention wth DB5K) take the publishign royalty as well as the mechinical royalty.

The way music publishing works is that there are two models of royalties; mechanical and publishing. A % of the whole album sale goes to the 'artist' this may be approx $1.80 per album sale this mechanical royalty is usually what is used to pay back an advance; an advance is usually paid by a record label to the artist to facilitate the recording, marketing, producers and living exspenses as part of releasing an album. Until this advance is 'paid off' the mechanical royalty goes to the record label once the advance is paid off then this royalty goes to the artist.

In Bigbangs case, they would also be getting a publishing royalty for where they are listed as songwriters for specific songs as well, this publshing royalty always goes direct to the artist. So every time the song is played on the radio, tv or they have a performance they get this royalty as well.

Bigbang also will probably be taking home a portion of the merchandising and touring profits as well - from what I can tell their contract is potentially more aligned with the western music industry model more than the eastern music industry model which treats artists more like employees (paying them a base salary then a % of profits)

[saemcrh.livejournal.com]

I know this thread is about Big Bang but wow, "9. The Weeknd ($55 million)".

JFC Abel.

[dynamite-state.livejournal.com]

I really was not expecting that

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

16. Sebastian Vettel ($41 million) (OP: yas get it bae)

lol same OP. although he's not my bae anymore

[tsuyoi-hikari.livejournal.com]

It amazed me how One Direction is #2 despite they practically on hiatus this year. Kinda shocked that C.Ronaldo is not part of the list when Messi, Neymar and others made it. And I wonder why Japanese groups never make it to this type of list.

[0ddie13.livejournal.com]

They have to be under 30 years old. CR is 31.

[donaldjdrumpf.livejournal.com]

Remember when Sebastian Vettel used to be great? Now he's not even the best on his team loll Go Kimi!

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

him leaving red bull was the worst decision ever

[donaldjdrumpf.livejournal.com]

Novak <3, true No. 1, Murray who, etc.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Majority of the people don't deserve to be on this list.