The Loud tour will compete with the likes of BE and CT.
But thats only a small part of it.
Rihanna has several high profile endorsement deals, another one coming up, and a $200Million movie, and a high selling perfume which will get a 2nd edition.
Just these alone should guarantee her at least $20Million

Oh really? So is that why UK sources only quote what she's worth?

That's the point I was making. Not only do Taylor's albums sell massively but she also receives a large portion from all the sales.

And still publishing rights are only a small percentage of the overall income and still has to be split with the songwriters and etc.

"To illustrate, if an album is first released in the United States in 2007 and a composition on that album is licensed at the minimum statutory rate, the publisher and writer of the composition would receive a combined 9.1¢ for each album sold during the year 2007.

These monies would be paid by the record company to the music publisher, which would then pay the songwriter his or her share of the royalties per the terms of the songwriter agreement (e.g., 50%, 75%, etc.).

The following chart tracks the sales of one composition on an album licensed at a statutory rate over a 1 year period.

In our example, the album is released in early 2007 and sells 100,000 copies in the United States in 2007.
TOTAL MECHANICAL ROYALTIES
COPIES MANUFACTURED AND DISTRIBUTED YEAR RATE ROYALTIES
100,000 2007 0.091 $9,100"

Yes but you are also forgetting rihanna's enormous royalties from getting her songs played on the radio on a daily basis. Sales, airplay , performance and licensing are all forms of payment than an artist like rihanna gets from 1 song.

FAME needs to take her essays and submit them elsewhere.

That's alright sis. Not everybody can handle true tea.

What tea cant anyone handle? There's a reason behind her not making the list Either she chooses not to be on the list (to disclose the information) or she's not eligible to be on the list as the other poster stated.

#100 probably made like $2-3Million. Rihanna makes that in 3-4 shows. She made around $1million for the Ukraine performance alone.

I'm sure she has enough to get by..

The hater will always take on the opportunity to hate.




Rihanna makes more money than you ever will in a life time, let's put it that way.

Rihanna's shows cost a lot to put on.
And do you think Homegirl is going to disclose her pay private gigs. The tax man will come knocking.

Rihanna is chilling with Millions while people are her celebrating her supposed lack of money.


The forbes list isn't very accurate either. At WOrst Rihanna is in the top 5 in the Social category.

I don't think she makes that much...According to Billboard, she made only $4 million in the US last year, while Bieber made over $20 million.

She only get's about ~34% for each performance, which is then shared by her and her band/dancers/etc. And she get's a 20% royalty rate from recorded-music sales. So if you buy a $1.29 song off of iTunes, Rihanna only gets about 26 cents (USD), which isn't a lot. It's all about selling albums. Rihanna isn't known for selling albums, but for digital hits. But this LOUD era could change things.

Since albums sells these days can't guarantee any celebrity a good living, lot's of touring and six/seven-figure endorsements are a must. However, Last Girl On Earth Tour (which began back in April 2010) didn't make it into Pollstar's top 50 Worldwide Tours of 2010, while Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Pink did. The official boxscore from that tour was about $20 million compared to Bieber's 48.3 million. I think 2011 will be her year. Her LOUD album has been selling well WW, she picked up some endorsements, her LOUD tour coming this June, plus her fragrance that was recently launched.

Only in America do they disclose people's earning... Rihanna is playing smart.

She hasn't start the tour yet. We'll see