Idol Singer’s Performance/Appearance Fee

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Based on August 2010

Singers being paid over 60million won
Lee Hyori
Rain
Wonder Girls
Big Bang
Dong Bang Shin Gi
BoA
Park JinYoung
SS501

Singers being paid below 60million won
Ranking, Singer, Perf fee (million won), Per member (if in a group) (million won)
1. 2PM, 6000, 1000
2. SNSD, 4500, 500
3. 2ne1, 4000, 1000
3. Taeyang (Bigbang), 4000
4. KARA, 3700, 740
5. SuperJunior, 3500, 270
6. CNBLUE, 3400, 850
7. Son Dambi, 3200
8. 2AM, 3000, 750
8. Brown Eyed girls, 3000, 750
8. After School, 3000, 375
9. Lee Seunggi, 3000
10. MissA, 2600, 650
10. Secret, 2600, 650
11. 4Minute, 2500, 500
11. T-ARA, 2500, 360
11. BEAST, 2500, 500
11. SHINee, 2500, 500
12. FT Island, 2000, 400
12. NARSHA, 2000
12. U-Kiss 2000, 285
13. Rainbow, 1600, 228
13. Davichi, 1600, 800
13. SISTAR, 1600, 400
13. Orange Caramel, 1600, 533
14. MBLAQ, 1500, 300
15. f(x), 1300, 260
15. ZE:A, 1300
16. GIRLS DAY, 1200
16. Nine muse, 1200
16. IU, 1200
16. Infinite, 1200
17. TMAX, 1000
18. Jay QT, 700
18. G.Na, 700
18. Teen Top, 700
18. F.CUZ, 700

Credits : tsm Star Marketing Center + cood0014 NAVER + SS601.com
Translation: xiaochu @ Quainte501.com

For the performance/individual fee in "million won" really means in "ten thousand won" which is how they usually count money in.

6000 = 60million won  which converts to 51,509 dollars (US)

Click for a more complete List + conversions (credit qoxie)

Comments

[dokidays.livejournal.com]

Wow

[kiki3291.livejournal.com]

I thought SNSD and SJ would get more. O_o Might be because they have a lot more members though, lol.

Why is Shinee so low? <_<

[jooannee.livejournal.com]

but :( :( :( even before they divide by members, i cant believe super junior is lower than 2pm and 2ne1.. and taeyang?

i guess JYPE and YGE are just good at bargaining. OR some corruption is going on with SM Ent like, under the table. which, honestly, wouldnt surprise me. -.-

i mean srsly SM Ent totally deserves to ask for so much more, right? i mean super junior and SNSD have such large fanbases! unless im mistaken, and they're not as popular as we think they are in korea..... (but look at dream concert, half the seats were for SM Town artistes!)

argh. IDGI. :( RAGING.

[maharetishtar.livejournal.com]

Poor SuJu

[taecish.livejournal.com]

\o/ 2pm

[music3chick.livejournal.com]

lol, Taec :)

[cookiedealer.livejournal.com]

I am shocked that Taeyang as a solo artist that doesn't to be that popular is paid more than Super Junior but maybe that whole Super Junior being super succesful thing is just a misconception from my early K-pop days, when the only stuff I knew was DBSK and people were surprised by the new red hair Heechul had in the Don't Don days. /nostalgia

Then my second thought was to look for G-dragon on the list but he's not on it...

[baboboy.livejournal.com]

ahhhh 2007 *sigh* I miss those days

[katiewenchh.livejournal.com]

it's been rumored that SMe doesn't pay that well :/
also, there's the fact that they have to pay a lot more members than the usual 5-6

[iconusa.livejournal.com]

Why is Big Bang in the upper one and Taeyang in the lower one?

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

Taeyang as a solo artist. Like how Narsha as solo artist is separate from BEG.

[amberr21.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not surprised.

[kiki3291.livejournal.com]

Also adding that this is the fee in Korea, I read the original article. I was a bit confused with WG since they weren't that active this year (so I thought they meant appearance fee in other countries) besides those two weeks, same with Big Bang.

[eatingthepie.livejournal.com]

2AM need to be higher, they're flawless.

[katiewenchh.livejournal.com]

A+

[miliy96.livejournal.com]

SNSD SHINee and SuJu should get more than THAT

[top-fifty.livejournal.com]

this

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

google that shit man, it's instantaneous these days.

[queefing.livejournal.com]

Rainbow get paid more than MBLAQ and Fx? lol.

[oystersauce87.livejournal.com]

DSP pays their artists more

[leafylee.livejournal.com]

/butthurt sj stan

[hautestuff.livejournal.com]

same negl :'(

[gigiettu.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked that suju gets less than big bang and taeyang solo and umm why shinee be so low?

[prdarkstar.livejournal.com]

Why would they get paid more than big bang

[dysphoriia.livejournal.com]

guys this is based on AUGUST 2010 so it's very much about who's active/not. but then 2pm... -side eye-

[kiki3291.livejournal.com]

Eh, I think is based on the whole year but accumulated up until August. If it was just based on August lots of people shouldn't even be on this list.

[lapereaux.livejournal.com]

why is there a u-kiss tag and no u-kiss on the list? i wanted to know how much they make

[toomanysides.livejournal.com]

sorry I did it by memory, and I thought I saw Ukiss on there. I'll fix it now.

[x-urbia.livejournal.com]

No one kill me for being lazy but what is this converted to USD?

[leafylee.livejournal.com]

60 million won = 51,060.00517 USD

[crypticbluerose.livejournal.com]

i didn't SS501 was up there like that.

[icedevil0289.livejournal.com]

I think dsp pays their artists more and well ss501 have been around for a while and they are pretty popular in korea.

[pynzrz.livejournal.com]

Magic and Madonna were very popular with everyone. SHINee songs don't get popular outside the fan base. Ring Ding Dong is probably the only song that went mainstream. SHINee can win music awards because of the power of fans, not general popularity.

[erbalurbal.livejournal.com]

no they are for doing performances at colleges and festivals etc

[iwasasamurai.livejournal.com]

Ikr :( But i'd like to think that it's this low only becos they're still rather new.
I hope their popularity rises :(

[na-jin-br.livejournal.com]

Poor of Super Junior, wtf :/

[dorawa.livejournal.com]

i would pay jonghyun 500,000 won to come to my house or w/e omg

[skrillex.livejournal.com]

LOL O U

[skrillex.livejournal.com]

Oh