February 19th, 2009
Lil Wayne & Kanye West Make Millions From Touring
1. Madonna: $242,176,466 (only had the 50th-best-selling album in the country)
12. Lil Wayne: $57,441,334
19. Mary J. Blige: $43,472,850
20. Kanye West: $42,552,402Source: Billboard
Forget album sales and ringtones, go on tour ASAP (For those than can sell out an arena). These numbers must be the total grossed of course, but the artist must still be getting a very large check.
Tags: Kanye West, Lil Wayne
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February 19th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
DAMN!! didnt know they getting that BIG money from touring..GODDAMN!
LOL @ Bloggers and all us worrying about “albums floppin and shit”
even if you go gold with your album, you can get millions from touring…
February 19th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Lol .All Wayne Money Goin To Baby ..
February 19th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
thought madonna’s album wud done better than that
February 19th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Are these numbers correct? Is that the artists take or what the whole tour grossed before everybody gets paid?
February 19th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
THIS IS OLD NEWS!
February 19th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
“Are these numbers correct? Is that the artists take or what the whole tour grossed before everybody gets paid?”
YOU’RE OUT OF YOUR MIND IF YOU THINK THAT’S THE ARTISTS TAKE
February 19th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
LMAO at Madonna smashing them all. People don’t know this but most of artists make their money off touring, not album sales
February 19th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
@#1 you lost all musical respect if u didnt know niggas get the bulk of their cash from tours, why else would they spend half a year on tour buses and fly around the world just to do a show if dont pay like it weigh
remember kanye said, “stadium status”
let yall small rappers do yall club records he doin stadium status
February 19th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Jay-Z is the only person in hiphop that can give Madonna a run for her $$$.
February 19th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
thats world tour money, people in the states arent as exicited about artists here,
February 19th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Thats turnover, the artists will prolly see about 10% of that after all the expenses and cuts are taken, but its still alot lol
February 19th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
didn’t know society had so many drug-heads ….. I mean, you’d really have to be one in order to be a lil wayne fan right?
February 19th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
@ County Of Kings ..I lost all my musical respect? wtf
I know rappers get their money on tour, except I didnt know it was THAT much.
February 19th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
NOT TO SURPRISED BY THAT LIST. JAY-Z WOULD SMASH KANYE WEST & LIL WAYNE NUMBERS THO. T.I. WOULD TO, THIS GUYS JUST AREN’T DOING MASSIVE TOURING RIGHT NOW, IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE NUMBER OF HITS YOU GOT.
THAT’S WHY ARTISTS LIKE JAY-Z, & T.I., KANYE, & OUTKAST, & EMINEM, ETC, CAN GO ON TOUR FOREVER, CAUSE THEY COULD JUST DO THERE WHOLE CATALOG, LIKE EACH SONG.
AND NO, THAT’S THE WHAT THE TOUR GROSSED, NOT WHAT THE ARTISTS GETS. LOOKING AT MADONNAS NUMBERS, SHE PROBABLY GOT A CHECK 2 OR 3 TIMES BIGGER THAN WHAT KANYE, & WAYNE ENTIRE TOUR GROSSED.
February 19th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
YALL NIGGAZ TALK LIKE YALL REALLY KNOW WHAT GOES ON. LOL
February 19th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
YALL NIGGAZ TALK LIKE YALL REALLY KNOW WHAT GOES ON. LOL MADDONA AND KANYE DID A WORLD TOUR , AND WAYNE’S I AM MUSIC TOUR WAS JUST IN THE U.S.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Straight up. You gotta respect Madonna. I don’t even listen to her at all. 242 mill. Good lord. Respect that if you can’t respect anything else.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:54 am
#16
Lil wayne’s tour cost like 5 dollars to run… Kanye spent $$$$ to run his tour with the moving stage and light show (it was the GLOW IN THE DARK tour) and it was hella worth it!!!! I’m not comparing the two or trying to cause argument. I’m just stating facts. They obviously have mutual respect for each other in the game.