April 29, 200718 yr Author The Sunday Times Rich List has been published today, and I am shocked that it seems that HAVE included Rudebox and the tour's profits. Here is what it says for Rob: Williams, 33, went into rehab this year and has dissapointing record sales, but on the strenght of a successful world tour in 2006 and accumulated earnings, our rock expert raises him to £95m. (£90m last year) Now this is beyond ridiculous, and shows how creadible this mag is. They have clearly done no research. Robbie sold 3.5 million tickets for the tour, at an average of £40-£50 per ticket, not to mention the huge amount he made due to merchandice and also TV channels who screened gigs around the globe, So the tour would've easily grossed at least £150m globally, then take the cost of the tour off, which I recall being £29m, and you still have at least £120m. Then look at Rudebox. About 3.3m sold worlwide. I don't know how much he or EMI get per copy sold, but surely at least £3? So about £10m, and Rob is meant to get 75% of all the profits from the tour and album sales. So going by that he should've gone up by £97m to £187m. :lol: It is clearly wrong though, I mean for Knebworth alone he made £5 personally in 2003. I was looking at some others, and I noticed George Michael has made £10m this year which is bizzare. It says he has sold 650,000 tickets worldwide. Also his Greatest Hits album has only sold 1.5m copies, so it really makes no sence at all how he could earn double what Rob did. And also Tom Jones has gone up by £5m for merly doing a few small gigs in Vegas. Also Joss Stone has made nearly as much as Rob despite doing nothing, apart from releasing an album last month which flopped.. :blink:
