The Richest In Music
Legendary U2 is not considered to be the richest band in the world. From June 2009 until June 2010 they were able to gain 130 million dollars and took the first place among the most “luxurious” bands in the music business. Traditionally, this survey was taken by the Forbes magazine. U2 is obviously very popular and surely they can pull off millions all over the world, life is truly shining for them. The second spot went to a hard rock ‘power house’ AC/DC, they’ve made it to 114 million dollars, and number three goes to Beyonce with her 87 million dollars. This shows some cool things about rock music in general, U2 and AC/DC are leading the scene and popularity follows the whole thing because without it they would never get so rich. The other artists go as follows, Bruce Springsteen (70 million dollars), Britney Spears (64 million dollars), she has really succeeded during the last year, Jay-Z (63 million dollars), Lady Gaga (62 millions), Madonna (58 millions), and country singer Kenny Chesney (50 millions). Black Eyed Peas and Coldplay are sharing the same amount – 48 millions. As Forbes noted, the half of its list began their music careers way back in the 1980’s, thus showing how many changes took place during the last decade. Today not too many young fans are ready to pay for music, which is available for free.