[probably fake] 20 richest female singers of all time
 

got this from JPM.

she's the richest Asian female singer... :D:D:D

thats really cool ayu rank so high, in 3-4 years she might move up. is she the only artist that isnt international on the list?

I think so, whoahhh. :thud

O.O that is soooo cool!!!!!!!!

That's a lot - $400 million. I mean, in the top ten?! That's really unbelievable! And I don't see any other Asian singers in the list, including Jolin Tsai and Lee Hyori there...

I think it's really impressive:yes

Especially since her fanbase is mostly in asia (of course there are fans all over the world but not as many as in asia~), the other artist have fans all over the world, "more equally" than ayu~

That's awesome ♥ and 16 years? They counted pre-avex too?

^seems like they did~
but honestly I think she didn' earn much around that time:laugh

Whoa :thud That is so awesome omg!!!!

I thought that was fake? I mean, I didn't see the source link for this news anywhere...

thanks!
I'm not too surprised at this though!

Lol. Get it ayu
That's awesome considerig she's not so internationally recognized. I actually am surprised
But its cool and makes total sense ^____^ go ayu

16 years? o_O They count her modeling years and NOTHING FROM NOTHING sales? Lol.
I'm really surprised though. She's really rich :thud and she's high ranked as asian female singer D:
Cogratz Ayu!

thanks for sharing

Wow, go girl! I love how there's no one younger than her ranked higher. She's been busy!

No idea how accurate that info is... I did find this link on nydailynews.com

http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/20...usic_sa-2.html

and then the forbes.com article...
http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/28/mus...usicwomen.html

That's funny, I thought Miley would rank high because of her Hannah Montana days? Oh well, Queen Ayu prevails lol.

I think they should only count her Avex years, not pre-Avex. :laugh But it's still great to see her ranked so high!

Omg this is amazing :)
Ayumi LOVE! <3
EMPRESS OF POP! :3 FTW

Nice!
Way to go Ayu!

Impressive O____O She's even more rich than so many American singers. Twice as much as Xtina!? Wow.

i think forbes has a pretty accurate data about anything in this earth...
maybe it's true, at least it's close to real...

ayu is so rich!!!! and it's really cool that she is the only asian act that make it into the chart...and she charting so high!!! she beat a lot of famous western singer...

it's a really cool chart and fact...

way to go ayu!!!

by the way...please post the link to the source...

DAYUM LOOK AT MADONNA'S MONEY COUNT. CHA-CHING$$$$

oh congrats to ayu

she's amazing!:)

truly amazing Ayu :3 fighting!

If she's the richest asian female singer i wonder where she ranks
overall in asian singers male and female.
and then in general asian celebrities

16 years lmfao these guys are funny.

And we shouldn't be surprised that Ayu's that high... remember she's an avex slave and releases an album every year, along with almost 50 singles, concert DVDs, concerts, a-nations, endorsements, magazine shoots... all these = $$$

Plus her albums are almost 3 times the price of a Western artists' PLUS her millions of physical single sales which is a media nonexistent in America for a long time now.

Yea its true but its still so nice to see that shes on par with some of the biggest american artists, even beating someone like Janet Jackson!

Wow!!!

hahaha thats all i can say

Wooow !! Amazing!!!

I expected more tbh.

The first thing that came to my mind was,

ayu... I seriously hope that you did save for your future. And not spending ALL of them on 3443 colors of the same shoes/clothes...5 handphones/3 laptops...Per YEAR!

I am the richest female singer of all time

I'm sure Ayu is smart with her money. Her spending money on 3443 colors of the same shoes/clothes, 5 cell phones and 3 laptops is her reward for working as hard as she does to please us. I'm positive she has the money to buy all of those things AND save for her future.

I think it's fake ... tooo much money ^

I didn't see Ayu's name mentioned in any of those articles.

Or did I skim it?

No, you're right, Ayu isn't mentioned in either of the articles.

Interesting... :rolleyes

article?what article?

richest than Beyoncé... and Jennifer Lopez... and Rihanna
I'm so proud of Ayu!

but you are a man :tired

wowww..is it true?
then congrats to Ayu!!

omg shes the only asian on there xD yeeaah shes filthy rich. ;)

WOW 0.o
Ayu's been working hard ever since she started, so she deserves to be in the Top 10 :)

lol this article is clearly fake. no official news source has ran this story yet and if you google stuff from the article it only links to one or two random forums.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/index.html

no where on their website too

true i think so too

AWSOME, come on Ayu you have to beat the old Cher.

Whenever it's fake or not, Ayu definitely is one of the richest solo artists in the world and perhaps the richest one in Asia. And she really deserves it.

And yeah - that's the power of the Goddess! (c) :thumbsup

That's so nice!

Even if it's fake it's still awesome. :)

woah rly? it's fake one?
woah!! but i believe Ayu is one of the richest asian female artists out there :)

OH... MY GOD... wow... o_o

Hahahaha!! Ayu!! Give me money!! ahhaah I need it! xD

So these are from points in 2006-2007. As the overall numbers are a lot less and it ranks them according to that year and if they were active that year.
and nothings been totaled for the 07-08, 08-09, etc. So no one seriously made a list of the richest female artists of all time speciically?
Just this counting by year

I have no reason to believe this list riozz posted is not true based off pure data and a combination of how ayus career and the japanese music industry works.
It makes sense for her to be the top in asia but idk internationally

Wow Ayu. thats a lot ;D cogratz
but i wonder, ayu is really the only asian.
no utada or kuraki...

ayu is still asians no. 1 ^^

YEAY Ayu!!! i was laughing about the fact that Ayu has 400 in 16 year and cher ''only'' 70 more in 31 years.
GO Ayu GO!!! a few years more of career and she will beat Cher.

why is people calling it "fake"? because it could be based in real information anyway wouldn't it?

^
Because there's no Ayu mention anywhere I think.
I mean, she's the only asian female singer in the list with such high rank and they don't mention her. That's quite strange.

such cool news. Ayu is the Queen =)

thats why we call her goddess~!! and she is the youngest in the top 10!!! yay Ayu congrats!!!

I was reli hyped up when open this thread.

Even if it's fake, please tell me, it's the fact :)

o.0 awesome.. :D

for me...no matter it's fake or not, but i think the number is true...i believe in this 11 years, she can gain that much money on her account...with a lot of album, and her tour is a really big source for her income!!! so i think the number is true

Not a surprise for Asia but for the world she is amazing she si richer as beyonce ! Ayu can sing for her, sales are not very important.

Well, I'm not sure if the number is true and what the number actually means (aggregate income without taking off the amount Ayu spends? The amount Ayu actually has? The amount she has earned in total not counting what goes to Avex and what goes to her?) But I'm sure Ayu IS very rich. And I suspect that at least Ayu's label pays artists the % in which they earn from what they sell, and not a salary (because that wouldn't always change and make Ayu so rich.)

I'm not sure if I believe this... I mean, I definitely believe Ayu would make the list, and probably as high as she is here too, but I find it hard to believe Miley Cyrus would be richer than Hikaru Utada or Jolin Tsai, don't you?

This is totally fake I'm sure. Ayumi isn't mentioned in either article.

Hardly... do you know how many 12 year old girls there are in North America that buy everything miley cyrus releases, like the miley cyrus backpack etc....
not a surprise...

^I don't think there are as many 12 year old girls with a free flow of cash in the US as there are citizens of Japan or Taiwan. xD I'm not too sure about Jolin Tsai, but I'd imagine Utada to be on that list. She was on par with Ayu in all the Japanese articles about who pays the most taxes up until a few years ago... and she's got the biggest selling album in Japanese history.

With Ayu not being mentioned in the articles (and I'd believe it if she was cause it's Forbes), I'd say Ayu was never part of this article and it was only conducted on artists popular in the US (because the US always disregards things that aren't popular there.) Then someone saw the list, figured if they included Asian artists, Ayu would definitely have been in there (which she would've) and then posted it online. :P

@amorphose:
The articles don't even show all time honestly so technically its kind of out of nowhere. Although I don't see anyone elsebeing richer than ayu in asia unless they're waay older.

And yes miley cyrus makes money from A LOT of things so its no surprise....let's see:
An extremely popular tv show
A couple movies
Innumerable amount of merchandise that people do buy
Her albums and such
Her tv show dvds
Her label contract or whatever
Her concerts (here in my area those tickets sold out in basically one refreshing of the site...so it mnade the news cuz people were complaining there kid couldn't go)
She has a clothing line apparently
Her concert was shown in theatres in 3D
And some of her songs have become popular to people other than kids
And trust me these parents will pay for that hannah montana and miley stuff (kids from the age like 3-12 or higher. Its a lot of kids)
I don't think all that money is counted just from her music career

Miley DOES have a ton of money and its no surprise she would make this list. She's a money machine...like ayu...
Utada maybe if she did more stuff...and idk about jolin...and even ayu still has much higher total sales than hikki. She's had her share of million selling albums/singles blah blah but in a shoter time period.

WOW higher than xtina
GO AYU!

Another thing... this is supposedly based on Forbes magazine. When has Ayumi been in Forbes magazine? I've never heard of them featuring Ayu on any of their lists. o.O

Forbes wrote about her in 2003, and mentioned her in an article in 2008. :)

WOW. i feel totally impressed yet, like, sorta expected that at the same time. is that possible? this is great news!!!!!! go Ayu!!!! duh, she IS the QUEEN of Asiaaaaaaaa!!! hands dooooown foooooos!!!

I think they must have doctored the numbers or something, because last time I checked Madonna was only worth $500 Million and Ayu was only worth like $100 million. And where is Paris hilton? She technically counts as a singer. I'm sure she's worth like a good $300 million or something.

And there is no way in hell that Miley Cyrus is worth $100 million. The ***** can't even buy a ****ing pair of panties to put on before she gets out of a car. It's more like Disney get's $100 million from Miley while she gets $7 for her trouble.

Waii!! SUGOI!!! Congrats, Ayu!!:thud
:luv2

in the article based on the contract with their company not her wealth.

Sounds pretty awsome... but I can't find any kind of official article :(

I hope is true

if its true its really cool XD

Way to go Ayu! She's almost officially royalty. :yes

Avril Lavigne? :irked
$400 millions though...:thud

Wow the onli asian singer in the list!!! Great for Ayu!! =D

wow she doesnt even need to be international to be printing money XP

i hope this is true!

real awesome for Ayu,i know the queen really deserves it ^O^

Wow That's high ><

I don't know if it's real or fake but I do believe that Ayu is ~RICH~ :laugh

She's the only Asian on that list and it was really impressive!
No wonder she stayed in the industry for 11 years.

Thanks for sharing :)

51st single: ~RICH~ :laugh

:roflmao

~RICH~ c/w ROLLING IN DOUGH.

This is soooo cool! Ayu works reli hard for her money, so I think she deserves it!! :yes
And she is also the only Asian on the list. Once again Ayu has shown us how awesome she is! :heart

Lol I sense awesomeness :heart :roflmao

:roflmao
Ayu would turn ~RICH~ into a deep meaning, like being RICH in love or smth. :laugh

OMO this is truly amazing O.O

congrats to Ayu for being as a japanese artist on the list!!! (^-^)b

didn't know ayu would have 400 million... $_$

anyway i'm very proud of her!!! ^-^

I'm sure Ayu'll be first in 20 years :laugh

:teek 400 millions... really?


Thanks for telling

no doubt madonna's the first~ YAY for ayu!

Holy ****! Way to go Ayu! Let's go buy more CDs!

BONUS TRACK!
I am...~RICH~ (THX A LOT 2010 ver.)

^ wahaha that'll be a great title wahaha XDD

Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Britney ... Who is the richest singer of all
 

Article from Pure-People.

^

no picture of ayu ?

That's really damn impressive! Go Ayu! :heart