Stevie's Net Worth

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by Christopher

I know there is a wide margin of accountability in this listing of the "Worlds Richest Singers". However, I am surprised by the glaring omission of any other FM members, mainly Lindsey Buckingham! The list contains members of a couple of other bands, as well as 3 members of the Eagles.

I am not at all surprised that Stevie is the wealthiest member of Fleetwood Mac. That is pretty expected and evident based upon her ample solo career achievements (concert AND record sales) plus her FM songwriting royalties, sales and concert receipts. On the other hand I just assumed that Lindsey was pretty conservative with his FM fortune & was also sitting under a pile of cash.

But when they do this kind of thing (or when Forbes and Fortune make lists), they like to count things that can be measured through public records. Royalties, contractual deals (like movie pay or points, Vegas deals), box office proceeds, record sales, etc.

If your fortune has grown privately from your stock or real estate investments or because you've saved a lot of money (and did it back when interest rates actually rewarded you for saving), no one is going to know that, so you aren't going to rank. I always hear about people who have lots more money than their careers would warrant (like that Wayne Rogers guy from M*A*S*H who is much richer than Alan Alda due to his business dealings, yet Alan Alda would probably make a "richest" list a lot faster than Wayne).

I know what you mean about the other FM members. I know people have talked about it here (yeah Viv) but I never saw anything about Christine selling her music rights and making a lot of money from that. Something like that wouldn't just show up in Billboard magazine once. I think we'd see several news reports about it. I would love the details of that deal. While Mick seems to be a spendthrift, I wonder if John has saved a lot of money. He doesn't seem to spend a lot -- at least the house that he sold before moving to Hawaii was a modest one.

Michele