Top Money Makers: Streaming, Etc.

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Taylor Swift Tops Billboard's Top Money-Makers List of 2015

Billboard, Billboard Staff May 5, 2016

http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...kers-rich-list

Billboard ranks the highest-paid musicians of the past 12 months.

#20 Fleetwood Mac

Sales 1.4 million
Streaming 387.5 K
Publishing 490.2 K
Touring 9.2 million


Christine McVie's return helped raise Fleetwood Mac eight places on the list. Greatest Hits and Rumours accounted for two-thirds of the band's strong album sales (600,000), and physical sales outpaced digital 3-to-1.



CONTRIBUTORS: Ed Christman with Bob Allen, Leila Cobo, Brooke Mazurek, Gordon Murray, Ray Waddell, Natalie Weiner, Nick Williams

METHODOLOGY: Money Makers was compiled with Nielsen Music and Billboard Boxscore, using 2015 U.S. data only. All revenue figures cited are Billboard estimates and may not equal the sum of the subcategories due to rounding. Revenue from merchandising, synchronization and sponsorship is not included. The following royalty rates, minus a 4 percent producer's fee, were used: album and track sales, 22 percent of retail revenue; streaming revenue, 22 percent for current artists and 50 percent for heritage artists. Publishing royalties were estimated using statutory mechanical rates for album and track sales; the Copyright Royalty Board streaming formula; and an average of $2.50 per play for hit radio and 60 cents per play for heritage spins. For labels' direct deals with interactive services, blended audio and video rates of, respectively, $0.0063 and $0.0015. (A 10 percent manager's fee was deducted from each category.) Touring revenue, after the manager's cut, equals 34 percent of an act's Boxscore. The top 10 lists for sales royalties were calculated based on physical and digital albums and track sales, the streaming royalty list, track on-demand audio and video streams, and estimated royalties from webcasting, SiriusXM and Music Choice.