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Quote: Forbes: Coldplay 6th highest earning musicians
Madonna is the Top Earning Musician of the year with about $110 million in profits, according to Forbes magazine. The total is based upon her touring, recording and endorsement earnings from June 2008 to June 2009.
Two other female artists follow Madge in the top five: Céline Dion ($100 million) and Beyoncé Knowles ($87 million). No new acts are in the Forbes top 12, but three acts -- Coldplay, Rascal Flatts and AC/DC -- tied for sixth position.
Forbes uses various sources including Billboard, Pollstar, and Nielsen SoundScan, among others, for its tabulations that include earnings from album sales, touring, publishing and endorsement deals. The lucrative merchandise sales at concerts, however, seem to be missing from the report.
Forbes' Top Earning Musicians, 2008-2009:
1. Madonna - $110 million
2. Céline Dion - $100 million
3. Beyoncé Knowles - $87 million
4. Bruce Springsteen - $70 million
5. Kenny Chesney - $65 million
6. Coldplay - $60 million
7. Rascal Flatts - $60 million
8. AC/DC - $60 million
9. The Eagles - $55 million
10. Toby Keith - $52 million
11. Bon Jovi - $50 million
12. Dave Matthews Band - $45 million
How Forbes comes up with its figures, though, seems to be more subjective than definitive. Madonna, for example, grossed $282 million dollars from touring in addition to her other sources of income. The media does not know the breakdown of her touring deal with promoter Live Nation. As a member of Live Nation Artists, she signed a 10-year, $120 million deal prior to the Forbes calendar year, and Live Nation obviously recouped some of its investment on her ongoing Sticky & Sweet Tour, the first under the new contract.
Meanwhile, Dion grossed $237 million on her first tour after seven years performing in Las Vegas, in addition to adding a sixth perfume in her fragrance line and releasing her first English greatest hits collection.
Forbes stated that the top 10 musicians on its chart earned a combined $719 million, compared to $500 million from the period ending June 2008. Citing numbers from industry analyst Pollstar, this jump was attributed to the fact that ten concerts grossed more than $10 million in 2008 whereas only four concerts reached that level in 2007.
Average ticket prices also rose $5.26 to $67.33, the biggest single-year increase in 15 years.
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Quote: Ne-yo, Busta Rhymes, Shontelle and Lemar on Coldplay
Once upon a time, the honour was undisputed. In the 60s, it was accepted that the Beatles were the world's greatest act. In the 70s, it was the Stones. In the 80s, it was U2's turn. Hindsight tells us, of course, that other acts had legitimate claims - James Brown, notably - but they were ignored by the white rock-and-pop establishment, writes The Guardian.
And so the title of "the greatest" became a competition between a succession of guitar bands, even as guitar rock was being left behind as any sort of pioneering force within music. But, still, people understood what the title entailed: the acts hailed as "the greatest" were those who could make a crowd of 100,000 feel intimate, who had an ability to communicate meaning far beyond the literal meaning of their songs.
But who is the world's best act these days? It's a question bands seem eager to avoid: Chris Martin last year laid claim to Coldplay being no more than the seventh-best band in the world, and even Bono doesn't appear to have been lusting for the top spot since 2000, when he announced U2's intention to "reclaim their title".
It's harder now to anoint one single act than it might have been in the 60s and 70s, when tastes were less fragmented and music had not yet fractured into so many microgenres. Still, we thought it a question worth asking - and decided to pose it not to critics, but to musicians. And not just to rock'n'roll musicians, but to rappers, pop singers, crooners, R&B singers. They were asked one simple question: "Which act, working today, is the best in the world?" They were allowed to use any criteria - there's no formula for this - and any answer was legitimate.
Hence one nod for Hugh Jackman. Some of our panel were judging on the basis of commercial success, some on the basis of how they have influenced others, but a large number decided in the same way most fans do: nominating acts that had touched them personally. The results? Well, put it this way: in 2009, there's no longer any consensus about this question...
Ne-yo: True artists nowadays are few and far between, but I'd have to say I'm a huge fan of Coldplay. Everything they do is melody, and melody speaks to everybody, be you a hip-hop head, be you an R&B guy, be you a country-and-western guy. Melody is the blood that flows through any and all musical genres. There are some songs where I have no idea what they're talking about. Chris Martin is almost saying: "OK, take these words and these melodies and determine your own adventure - what does it mean to you?" That's the question he's asking with the songs, as opposed to trying to force meaning on you.
Busta Rhymes: And Coldplay, they're young too, and they're ****ing incredible to me. I would love to do a record with them - I'm a super Coldplay fan. Put that all the way out there!
Shontelle: It's between Coldplay and U2, but I'd go for Coldplay, who just keep getting better. I've liked them since Yellow, and then fell in love with them, both musically and as people: I met them a long time ago through my mum, who's the marketing coordinator of the Caribbean region for Virgin Atlantic, and they played cricket with us! They've got all these great rock songs and then they remix Jay-Z - that's what makes them connect. Hip-hop people, R&B people, rock'n'roll people - they all love Coldplay. They're constantly being sampled and interpolated into other music, which is indicative of how wide they reach.
Lemar: There's no strings attached with Coldplay: it's just them, good musicians, at the top of the game. Even though they are so popular, it's not oversaturation - you don't turn on the TV and see ColdplayColdplayColdplay. It's not about the media, it's not about anything but good music and a good band. They write great songs, then go and perform them for the people. And to me, that's an inspiration.
| Ne-yo is spot on about their melodies. We were discussing that just the other day. 
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