BON JOVI, AC/DC, JOURNEY Make Billboard's Tops 2009 Music Money Makers List
February 12, 2009, 15 years ago
BON JOVI, AC/DC and JOURNEY are the hard rock bands that have made Billboard's Tops 2009 Music Money Makers List. Regardless of genre, retail sales or radio play, each of the 20 acts on Billboard's Moneymakers list toured in 2008. For almost all of them, touring generated the most revenue. And in a year when recorded-music sales declined yet again, many earned more at the box office than ever before.
1. MADONNA: $242,176,466
2. BON JOVI: $157,177,766
3. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: $156,327,964
4. THE POLICE: $109,976,894
5. CELINE DION: $99,171,237
6. KENNY CHESNEY: $90,823,990
7. NEIL DIAMOND: $82,174,000
8. RASCALL FLATTS: $63,522,160
9. JONAS BROTHERS: $62,638,814
10. COLDPLAY: $62,175,555
11. THE EAGLES: $61,132,213
12. LIL WAYNE: $57,441,334
13. AC/DC: $56,505,296
14. MICHAEL BUBLE: $50,257,364
15. MILEY CYRUS: $48,920,806
16. TAYLOR SWIFT: $45,588,730
17. JOURNEY: $44,787,328
18. BILLY JOEL: $44,581,010
19. MARY J. BLIGE: $43,472,850
20. KANYE WEST: $42,552,402
(Thanks Billboard.com)
