Illustrator said:

classic...

FunkyBrotha said:

nobody here is argumentative or negative.. we asked you where you got your information from.. that's argumentative? .. you have no proof or any link to back up what you're saying.. so.. if not.. then your information is false .. what relevant organisations are you referring to?

gosh .. he makes it very difficult to find info on him for sure.. finally i found an article on him in forbes, but not relating to the topic.. im gonna dig til i find that article from 2004


http://www.forbes.com/bus...rince.html

another
http://www.forbes.com//fo...130s1.html
[Edited 1/18/08 11:31am]

jdcxc said:

That HBO special would have been nice...but they wanted him to sign a contract that wouldn't allow him to perform on TV for 1 year. He should have did it because I don't recall him doing anything on TV...

I wonder what folks get paid for the Super Bowl?

Hmmm.....
$11 mil 4 Emancipation
$?? mil 4 Jam of the Year tour
$12 mil 4 Crystal Ball
$80 mil 4 Musicology tour
$50 mil 4 Superbowl
$10 mil 02 Arenas
Merchandise
Music & Movie Royalties
That's were that big grin we all love comes from

I'd love to know where people get these figures from as I have never known a tour accountant to divulge them

Even with best guestimates there are things such as agents fees, management fees, security etc to be taken out

And thats just a few of the expenses, agents alone run to between !5% and 25%

I guess its interesting to some people to speculate, but at the end of the day the only person whose business it is is prince

loveu2the9ss said:

TAXES 48 PERCENT OF ALL THAT

mirrorbestfriend said:

2 true.....He's obviously got packets of that noose we call money.... but his talent is priceless.....Can u imagine walking around with all that ready to come out at any time....I work with a lot of people...but I have yet to see someone with the all around magic that he has... Prince & his guitar....Priceless

Haha... interesting posts but...

am I the only one who doesn't care about how much money he's worth?


His money never really mattered to me because you can't put a price on talent.




But just to play along, I can't throw out any random number... but given how successful he is an artist and how long he's been in the business...


He's gotta be worth a lot

It's like what Tricky says while waltzing with Mary in UTCM.

Tricky: Here's a girl who's smart & pretty
Mary: And rich
Tricky: I don't care 'bout that! Honey, I really don't

loveu2the9ss said:

Anyone know where you are getting this figure for the Superbowl ..."$50 mil 4 Superbowl"????

Any truth to this??? This seems extremely high?

Astasheiks said:

they have no link or source.. and i know the Musicology one is wrong.. cause Forbes said $52 or 54 Million for Musicology so.. unless they have a source.. disregard it..

prime said:

From what I've read, performers don't get paid for Superbowl appearances. The tradeoff is that you're performing during the most-watched event of the year, so it's free publicity. Prince did see a spike in album sales after the Superbowl, so he made money that way.
[Edited 1/31/08 19:20pm]

PicassoFace said:

A lot of that was my doing

Flowerz said:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002239/news

Madonna Lands Top Tour Figures
14 December 2004 (WENN)
Madonna's controversial Re-Invention trek has been named the year's most lucrative tour after taking a staggering $125 million in ticket sales. According to tour statisticians at Billboard Boxscore, Madonna sold out 55 of 56 performances worldwide, with an average nightly take of $2.23 million. And that was by far the biggest live success of the year, despite comments from Elton John that attempted to discredit the pop superstar for lip-syncing parts of her show. Meanwhile, Prince's Musicology tour drew more fans than any other artist, and grossed $90.2 million. Shania Twain was third with grosses totaling $62.5 million.

I saw the 80 million figure more than the 50 million

Theres a source

http://senze.com/business...ry/prince/

The US Tour should be even better. There should be one, because Prince grossed over $87 million the last time he had one in 2004 with the Musicology Tour that went on a run of 96 performances.

Theres another

http://www.answers.com/to...ertainment

Additionally, Nelson's Musicology Tour of 2004 was reported by Pollstar as the highest grossing tour of 2004, taking in $87.4 million.

whoops theres another

wow... pretty confirmable don't you think?

Barbefunkoramaque said:

yeah.. this is good.. but the top link and the bottom link.. contradict each.. the top one saying Madonna was the most lucrative that year.. the bottom link saying Prince.. was the most lucrative.. but i know Madonna was cause Forbes list.. (who i just emailed) said Madonna too ..

Flowerz said:

well, he got paid handsomely for HAPPY FEAT, probably... and they would have had to pay for the use of KISS, and he would have gotten that without WB getting their hands into it because they had to pay him as a WRITER of the song. WB would only get some loot if they used the ACTUAL SONG... but writer's fees aren't that much.

he also started the VEGAS thing, which apparently was fairly lucrative. I don't know if it was 50-million of lucrative, but...

Gross figures for a tour!

Thats BEFORE you take out all of the expenses!

Thats all your travel for everyone tour buses flights freight equipment hire etc etc etc

Oh boy

And thats always assuming the figure is correct to start with

Those sources are obviously correct as is everything else we read in the media
[Edited 1/31/08 19:57pm]

Flowerz said:

Madonna had more money, but Prince had more people from what I understand. Wait, did Madonna go outside the states? Maybe its U.S. only or something.

ToraToraDreams said:

yeah.. and i stand corrected if he made $87 Mill that year.. my gosh Forbes took down everything Prince wealth related .. wonder who had a hand in that? i emailed them..

didn't I read at one point when they did all the calculations Prince beat net wise even madonna's tour. I thought I read it came down to one set of tour trucks... prince's tour basically ran leaner cuz he had less stuff to carry... thus less logistics needed to tow a set to one venue while the other was being used.

Normally you have one convoy of trucks at the present venue, The second set at the next venue and the third enroute to the venue after the next. He only used two sets of convoys somehow due to the sparseness of his set.

NUNYA!!!

PicassoFace said:

Thats what I thought also.

Astasheiks said:

That's what I thought...I was just going by this:

money probably has to be made for his bank account.

I do believe that entertainers should have their oodles of money accounts, for being uplifting.
I wish I had a few bucks to help me pay for the search 2. I know that happiness is much more valuable than a dollar figure.
[Edited 2/1/08 20:39pm]