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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
I doubt each member of Radio head are multi millionares. I think you have a quirked view of what artists actually make. I know way too many artists that were hugely famous and now barely getting by. My vocal / performance coach won the Academy of country music award in 1985 for best new female artist, and now is giving vocal lessons. She is far from poor, but thats just an example.
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I would venture to guess that the members of Radiohead are all millionaires several times over. At least, to say, they have earned that. Nobody knows how they spend their money, but they have made some serious money.
First off they have sold a decent amount of records. So assume they have made nothing or very little from those. Second, they are touring all the time and they sell out everywhere they go. I read that if you want to hire them to play a festival or to do a show it is upwards of 400K for one night. They fill every venue they play and they make a ton off of that. With those ticket sales they most likely sell a decent amount of merchandise. Add in that they own their own publishing so when the songs get played on the radio or TV or in anything they get all the money from that. That alone is probably worth a few million dollars a year if not more.
They aren't making money like U2 or the Rolling Stones or Metallica, but they are making some real money.