$60 million is just insane low. She probably could have made that just from doing private shows for rich kids sweet 16 birthday parties.
This article says $103 million gross over three years. That‘s not $100 million in her pocket.
If she grossed $577 million in tours what would her personal cut be? I’m guessing well under 50%?
So probably at best $125 million in her pocket after taxes?
Properly managed with endorsements she’d have to be worth 250M easy.
The problem with gross numbers like these is figuring out how much is left after everyone took a cut. How mich did Ticketmaster get? How much for the venues? How much for the hundreds of people making the show a reality?
I‘ll take the under.
She wasn’t properly managed in the 90s or 2000s pre this issue either though.
Beyonce married Jay Z
Britney married Kevin Federline
Came across an article that said the highest grossing show was $1.2 million with an average ticket price of $255. No way she was making a million per show. Even the $250k might be too high.
Obviously.
I took that gross from roughly adding up the numbers in this list which doesn’t even have numbers from 25 shows at the height of her career.
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It might have been average gross of $1 million per show or something. That makes the math add up way more.
The way live music works is the artist’s agency (probably WME) pre-buys all the tickets. So if there is a 10,000 seat arena they will pay $100 per ticket or $1,000,000 to the artist (round numbers, example). It’s actually a lot like an IPO. That $1,000,000 then gets taxed (50%), also the artist’s manager (10%) and lawyer (5%, lol) get paid right off the top.
The agency then gets to keep everything above $100 per ticket in actual ticket sales. Oh and WME owns Ticketmaster so they get absurd fees there too. Not sure if those come out of the artist’s cut, probably so.
It’s a mega scummy business. Also WME owns live nation, not sure how that works but obviously another huge cut for mega scumbag Ari Emanuel.
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GUARANTEES not gates.
Maybe I misunderstand what guarantees means in this context. Are you saying she was guaranteed $100 million payday for a showed that grossed around that?
It’s a slightly hot take because this situation is terrible, Britney was treated about as poorly as any celebrity in the late 90s/early 00s by our culture but it was always going to be tough for her to have a career like Beyonce or Rihanna or other similar stars. Just too rough of a beginning from our culture, poor personal decisions then the legal system fucked her over.
It’s like why Zeppelin didn’t make as much as The Stones, or Oasis as much as Radiohead.
If there is any silent majority it’s deadheads.
Your article doesn’t even include all of the shows. In total, it grossed around $138M over 248 shows with contracts stipulating her guaranteed pay per show, starting at $310k and quickly escalating to $475k when they decided to extend her. Her cut works out to around $100M.
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That‘s very generous of Caesars. Maybe it was a loss leader/prestige effort. Where did you see the guarantee numbers?
Edit: This mentions a $500k guarantee.
There are plenty of sources but let’s go with this Fox News headline for the lulz:
She had a deal in principle to earn over $500k per show for the new residency that was canceled in 2019. Anyway, the point is she was an extremely high earner as recently as 2017, bringing home ~$100M over 248 performances. Doesn’t sound like a person with dementia iyam.
with back end, merchandising and other perks, the singer will earn around $475,000 a show. Celine Dion , the top money earner in Vegas, makes $476K a show.
From what I’ve read, it does seem like her cut was indeed >$100M for the residency.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Variety/status/1410966245894148097
After recordings of the remote audio from Britney Spears’ blistering 24-minute statement during her June 23 conservatorship hearing began circulating widely over the web, Los Angeles County courts have decided to end their remote audio attendance program completely. Despite warnings on the web page of the audio broadcast, which was open only to involved parties and the media, and from Judge Brenda Penny, recordings were readily available just minutes after her statement was broadcast; Penny shut down the remote audio shortly after Spears had made her statement.
No recordings of court hearings are allowed without written advance permission from the judge, according to state and local policies. The 2019 California Rules of Court read: “Any violation of this rule or an order made under this rule is an unlawful interference with the proceedings of the court and may be the basis for an order terminating media coverage, a citation for contempt of court, or an order imposing monetary or other sanctions as provided by law.”
