Not bad, two of the top 3 are classic rockers.
“Billboard’s” Top Ten Money Makers of 2016
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- Beyoncé ($62.1 mil)
- Guns N’ Roses ($42.3 mil)
- Bruce Springsteen ($42.2 mil)
- Drake ($37.3 mil)
- Adele ($37 mil)
- Coldplay ($32.3 mil)
- Justin Bieber ($30.5 mil)
- Luke Bryan ($27.3 mil)
- Kanye West ($26.1 mil)
- Kenny Chesney ($25.4 mil)
Giving Costco a bit of competition on jumping the season.
Cheap Trick has recorded a Christmas album but unlike Costco’s Christmas stuff the record won’t be released until Halloween. Bassist Tom Petersson says it came out great. They did one standard, covered some songs and they did some original songs. Here’s Cheap Trick’s “I Want You For Christmas” from the album ‘A Very Special Christmas’ 25 years.
Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins is having a ‘Garage Sale’ on the website Reverb. He’s selling over 100 items including guitars, amps, and drum machines he used on tour and while recording many Smashing Pumpkins albums. Corgan’s Reverb shop opens on Wednesday, August 16th. You can preview the items, along with some stories by clicking Billy’s guitar.
This year will mark the first ever Loudwire Music Awards ceremony and concert and while we’re still waiting for the nominees, we know Tony Iommi will be the recipient of the Courage Award. The honor celebrates both the Black Sabbath rocker’s career and “triumphant” battle against lymphoma over the past few years. And the Courage Award will be named the “Iommi” and presented to future courageous artists. They even used Iommi’s hand as the mold of the hand featured on the award. The Loudwire Music Awards will take place on October 24th in Los Angeles. You can buy tickets to the event on the 19th.
David Bowie fans , yes there’s more. “A New Career in a New Town” is the third installment in Parlophone Records’ Bowie career retrospective. It covers 1977 through 1982. to cover those 5 years it contains an 11-CD/13-LP set with all kinds of interesting stuff including the songs “’Heroes,” “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps),” the live album “Stage,” and assorted B-sides and singles. “A New Career in a New Town” will hit stores on September 29th.
