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Originally Posted by dissention
Stevie is the one making the most royalties. Fleetwood Mac and solo? Yup. She made, like, $5 million off of Landslide alone.
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Did you read this somewhere ? I find that figure quite hard to believe. I base this on the fact that Dolly made about 2-3 million when Crackney destroyed "I Will Always Love You", and that monstrosity was number one for something like 10 weeks and sold over a million copies as a single alone. Not to mention the royalties from the soundtrack, which also sold an insane amount of copies. All tolled it seems that the Landslide cover moved a fraction of those numbers. Like, maybe a fifth of that much.
BTW, Christine isn't making bank off her songwriting roylaties anymore. She sold her publishing to Sony in the mid nineties for a paltry 4 or 5 million dollars. Not sure about the details of the deal, but the publisihing rights, she sold. Though she would still be getting performance royalties, which are different.