Stevie and Rod to tour again???

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by Christopher

So I'd wager Stevie made @18-19 million in 2011!
@17 million in concert revenues
@1-2 million: songwriting royalties/IYD sales/catalog sales

Oh, there is no way she made that kind of money last year. I'm too lazy to do exact calculations, but I would estimate that she did approximately 50 shows last year, including the Rod shows, and that she got paid anywhere between $250K (as an opening act) to $350K (in Australia). That means she probably grossed around $15 million; however, I suspect she has to pay for her band, crew and their transportation expenses out of pocket. After paying off her lawyers, accountants and managers, she probably made about $9 million before taxes from touring alone. What seems fuzzier to me is the money she earned from IYD. Just the publishing alone probably gets her around $1 per album. Including performer royalties, she probably gets $2.50 - $3.00 per album but has to pay for all recording and video expenses. She saved a lot of money by doing the bulk of recording at her house and by shooting all the videos at her house over a few days. Not including the salaries of her full time musicians, the production costs altogether were probably in the neighborhood of $150-$200K. If she sold 200K copies in the U.S. alone (probably not much more ex-U.S.), and you factor in the "man hours" of work involved, she probably barely broke even. Ugh. It's no wonder she was so reluctant to record for ten years!