xBrownstonex Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 (edited) Only beyonce made more money. Quote 2. Guns N' Roses What began with a secret show at the tiny Troubadour in Los Angeles last April became GNR’s highest-grossing tour to date. Despite Axl Rose’s doubts, the tour is still ongoing, accounting for most of the group’s $42 million in earnings in 2016. LAST YEAR: N/A http://www.billboard.com/photos/7865108/highest-paid-musicians-2016-money-makers Edited July 17, 2017 by xBrownstonex 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IncitingChaos Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Always cool to see them on a relevant list 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunset Gardner Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 (edited) It's no doubt a great acheivment but somehow cheapened knowing what they pulled on izzy. Edited July 17, 2017 by Sunset Gardner 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modano09 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 10 minutes ago, Sunset Gardner said: It's no doubt a great acheivment but somehow cheapened knowing what they pulled on izzy. Inviting him to be part of it but not giving him the same amount of money because they bought him out at his request 20 years ago and he's had no interest in managing the brand since? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunset Gardner Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 25 minutes ago, Modano09 said: Inviting him to be part of it but not giving him the same amount of money because they bought him out at his request 20 years ago and he's had no interest in managing the brand since? maybe the offer they made him should've been fair? 2016/2017: traveling the world making millions on songs izzy wrote or cowrote and cutting him out over shared greed. then axl and duff lying about it on TV. ...moving right along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunset Boulevard Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Nobody cares about Lazy Stradlin'... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunset Gardner Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 2 hours ago, Sunset Boulevard said: Nobody cares about Lazy Stradlin'... yeah right... except for you when youre listening to the songs he wrote. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Axl could spend some of those millions in a great vocal coach and maybe get some of that raspy AXL/DC voice back? I mean, it's great he's making money but part of that money should be applied in making him sound good again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratam Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 5 hours ago, xBrownstonex said: Only beyonce made more money. http://www.billboard.com/photos/7865108/highest-paid-musicians-2016-money-makers Beyonce had album and tour,and GUNS just tour without album is most worth what Beyonce in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modano09 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 4 hours ago, Sunset Gardner said: maybe the offer they made him should've been fair? 2016/2017: traveling the world making millions on songs izzy wrote or cowrote and cutting him out over shared greed. then axl and duff lying about it on TV. ...moving right along. How do you know it wasn't fair? He said it wasn't "equal". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNR 1991 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 You gotta be happy for the band for getting it right for once and doing an extremely profitable and successful tour. Beyoncé is number 1, but remember she had a brand new album, an award winning HBO special and very high profile media outreach including her pregnancy. GnR didn't even promote their tour in any fashion. If you count the Coachella payday and the AC/DC runs, I think Axl may have made the most money than any other musician last year. Without releasing a single second of new material. Impressive. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnrcane Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 11 hours ago, Sunset Gardner said: maybe the offer they made him should've been fair? 2016/2017: traveling the world making millions on songs izzy wrote or cowrote and cutting him out over shared greed. then axl and duff lying about it on TV. ...moving right along. I don't know how much but Izzy does get paid every time they perform a song he has writing credits on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Bird Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Is that volume or gain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnrcane Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 52 minutes ago, Free Bird said: Is that volume or gain? I assume it is what the artist/band was paid for each category. Didn't the NITL tour gross around $300 million in 2016? If these numbers are accurate, it shuts down the idea that the band is getting $3 million per show for NITL. Based on the number of dates, they ended up with under $1 million per night of "loot" to split. Caveat being if these numbers are accurate. Also, notice on the whole list the ratio of tour earnings to sales and streaming earnings. That's why concert tickets are so expensive these days. If musicians had to rely on sales and streaming, they wouldn't really make that much. Even though a few million a year is a nice salary, the VAST majority of musicians can't do that consistently for years on end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Bird Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 3 hours ago, Gnrcane said: I assume it is what the artist/band was paid for each category. Didn't the NITL tour gross around $300 million in 2016? If these numbers are accurate, it shuts down the idea that the band is getting $3 million per show for NITL. Based on the number of dates, they ended up with under $1 million per night of "loot" to split. Caveat being if these numbers are accurate. Also, notice on the whole list the ratio of tour earnings to sales and streaming earnings. That's why concert tickets are so expensive these days. If musicians had to rely on sales and streaming, they wouldn't really make that much. Even though a few million a year is a nice salary, the VAST majority of musicians can't do that consistently for years on end. These 42 millions are just for 2017. North America, South America and Australia grossed round about 130 millions. They grossed in London alone about 17 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFGnR Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 How many gazillons has the NITL tour grossed by now? And, is expected to gross by the end of this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Jay Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 28 minutes ago, Free Bird said: These 42 millions are just for 2017. Can't you read. 4 hours ago, Gnrcane said: I assume it is what the artist/band was paid for each category. Didn't the NITL tour gross around $300 million in 2016? If these numbers are accurate, it shuts down the idea that the band is getting $3 million per show for NITL. Based on the number of dates, they ended up with under $1 million per night of "loot" to split. Caveat being if these numbers are accurate. Also, notice on the whole list the ratio of tour earnings to sales and streaming earnings. That's why concert tickets are so expensive these days. If musicians had to rely on sales and streaming, they wouldn't really make that much. Even though a few million a year is a nice salary, the VAST majority of musicians can't do that consistently for years on end. The list was Billboard, not at all Forbes. So I guess it was US only. Guns N' Roses is the #17 biggest rock band worldwide in terms of streaming services. But can't reach top 20 in the US. You have artists like Drake that are pulling impressive numbers and million of dollars with those services. GN'R released one new album in 25+years, it's quite easy to understand why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Bird Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 5 hours ago, Silent Jay said: Can't you read. Seems so. I confused that list with the top tours list 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
double talkin jive mfkr Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 congrats to uncle axl and to sell outs slash and duff now they can do the duck tales thing and feel relevant again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiencepatience Posted July 18, 2017 Share Posted July 18, 2017 (edited) Off ~$300,000,000 in tour sales they only made $42,000,000????? And split that three ways, then tax half, managers, agents.... WHAT!!! That's not that much dough... No wonder they're doing more laps Edit: My spelling is now borderline ah-trosh-ish Edited July 18, 2017 by ramsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedish Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 12 hours ago, double talkin jive mfkr said: congrats to uncle axl and to sell outs slash and duff now they can do the duck tales thing and feel relevant again I still can't fathom that people on a Guns N' Roses forum call GNR sellouts because they did a tour with Slash and Duff again... If someone would have told me that 2 years ago I would have thought they were fucking with me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xBrownstonex Posted July 19, 2017 Author Share Posted July 19, 2017 8 minutes ago, youngswedishvinyl said: I still can't fathom that people on a Guns N' Roses forum call GNR sellouts because they did a tour with Slash and Duff again... If someone would have told me that 2 years ago I would have thought they were fucking with me! Maybe they're just mad they couldn't afford going to a show. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncientEvil80 Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 On 7/17/2017 at 9:08 PM, maynard said: Axl could spend some of those millions in a great vocal coach and maybe get some of that raspy AXL/DC voice back? I mean, it's great he's making money but part of that money should be applied in making him sound good again. You can't "buy back" YOUTH that way, buddy boy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 15 minutes ago, AncientEvil80 said: You can't "buy back" YOUTH that way, buddy boy... Axl doesn't need to be young to sing well. Have you seen him with ACDC last year? I repeat, last year. 50 something years old Axl kicked ass last year. Youth has little to do with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnrcane Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 13 hours ago, ramsey said: Off ~$300,000,000 in tour sales they only made $42,000,000????? And split that three ways, then tax half, managers, agents.... WHAT!!! That's not that much dough... No wonder they're doing more laps Edit: My spelling is now borderline ah-trosh-ish Something doesn't make sense. They really only get 14% or less of the gross? I know that the production is expensive and they have to rent the venues but 14% seems a bit low. Granted, even if this is accurate and taking into account the crazy California state income tax, they'll still end up with over $7 million each for the year. I'll take that to get a free trip around the country/world and rehearse/perform once every 2 or 3 days for a few months at a time! If only I had any musical talent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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