Your estimate of £12m generated is way short of the mark.

 

Leona's sold around 8 to 9 million albums worldwide - call the average price of an album = £6 then you have over £50m generated already. Single sales must be pushing 20m worldwide as Bleeding Love alone is estimated to have sold well over 10m. Plus her recent tour sold 200,000 tickets at average price of say £40. Throw in merchandise, private gigs (where she's known to rake it huge amounts incl. a widely reported 1m for just one gig), perfume range, her song for Final Fantasy XIII, her song for Avatar the biggest grossing movie and fastest selling DVD/Blu-Ray of all time. Songs on other films (Sex and the City II, For Colored Girls), her commercial for Cotton in the States, use of her songs in adverts, TV shows, film trailers, her co-written duet on Italy's biggest selling album this year etc.

 

It's no coincidence that she bought herself a large house in the Hollywood Hills last year.

 

Yeah all true, thats probably why she's the richest artist from Britain under the age of 30! :heart: She's been enjoying success for 4 years now, and with the 3rd album in 2011 she's just going to go from strength to strength. :wub:

I remember Calvin Harris saying in an interview that he'd just got his iTunes statement and was completely underwhelmed at the amount considering the amount of units he'd sold having had 2 #1 hit singles.

 

Maybe that's why he did that Coke advert.

Edited December 16, 201014 yr by stebags

I thought this was pretty interesting..

 

The most popular UK tours of 2010 (Best Selling/Most in Demand) http://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/162743/9

1. Lady GaGa

 

:o I'm not sure why but that surprised me a bit, Lady GaGa doesn't strike me as the sort of artist who'd have a mega-grossing tour regardless of her album and single sales and the hype...