[Question] Ayu's assets? (I hope it's the right English word^^)
 

Hi :)
Does anyone know, how much money Ayu has? She has to be extremely rich, hasn't she? Or did never anyone talked about it?

I think nobody will ever know how much money she has, but one thing is sure. She has LOTS of it. Otherwise, why would all her luggage be Louis Vuitton luggage?

very very rich!!! she sells so much, she must be really rich~!

One of the richest women in Japan ive heard before

And also the one of the high(!) taxpayer in japan. (i forgot the ranking tho)

Thank you for the very fast replies!
I'm so happy for Ayu that she can live her dream
(okay it wasn't always her dream, I think^^)

omg she sold 50milion records, even if she gets a dallar for a CD she has 50milion dollars already, usually artists get 2 dollars from a CD price. Plus a lot of commercials, especially panasonic pays extremly a lot of. So she got at least 70milion dollars:)

I don't know,but she has a lot.A LOT.

She would have had a lot if it wasn't for tax, rent, traveling and living costs. She probably has more money than you and me in her bank, she certainly isn't short of it in any aspect or the word.

It's pretty easy to make an estimate of how much money Ayu has earned throughout her career, especially since a few years back the tax lists were public. However, it's impossible to guess how much money Ayu has at any certain point of time. She doesn't exactly have cheap living standards.

(Reading the thread title I thought this thread would be about the recent bra ads.. *grins*)

According to Forbes she is not even listed as one of the 40 richest people in Japan. She probably has about 100-300 million in dollars in the bank (not sure what that is in Yen), + whatever she owns (houses..etc).

The 400 Forbes Richest Japanese

I highly doubt she has anywhere close to that, artists usually don't turn incredibly rich due to their living habits and the recording company snitching 99% of the profits.

It's possible, of course, some artists amount up huge piles of cash on their accounts, but the majority don't end up with that much. By what I know, artists like Britney Spears never had more than $300mln at any one time (during her peak), I'm really not an expert on this, but if that is the case Ayu shouldn't be anywhere close.

im pretty sure she is very well off. Its kind of hard to know what their exact net worth is but im guessing she is probably the richest female singer. PROBABLY....

Wow so I guess my numbers were a bit too high then. lol

50 million then? :P

Ahm, very rich? xD
What did you tought, that she was a poor girl who's living on the street under a newspaper?

In the world? Far from it. In Japan? Probably not, at least not right now. I think Utada Hikaru topped that list, but I'm not sure, someone else around here should know.

I really don't know, it's hard to estimate how much money she puts away and how much she decides to spend. Considering her shopping sprees, traveling, etc. it's possible that she has <$1mln all the time. If she actually does put money away I'm guessing her savings account might have upwards to $100mln. But honestly, this is guesswork and it's impossible to say. We don't know much about Ayu's private life and money spending/saving habits. As you might know Britney Spears had troubles with money soon after her peak, I don't have a clue what she could have spent it all on, but bills truly has a habit to amount up to neat sums. Even Michael Jackson has been rumored to have financial troubles, no clue about the credibility of the sources of that, though.

Artist royalties are not THAT HIGH, but she must have at least 25-30 million from her albums, but at least another 50 million from tours, merchandise, CM's, appearances on TV, and on...

Yea, but you won't get a dollar for the sale of a CD single.
For an album, perhaps.

I once read that singers usually get around 80cents for each sale of an album.
Of course, Ayu is a well established artist, who writes her own lyrics, and went through a phase of composing her own music too, so she would get more than this.

Ayu tours every year, so that's where the bulk of her income will come from. :)
Of course, it would be silly to think she still has every penny she has earned, lol. I bet she spends it as quickly as it comes in... I know I would!

the lowest on that list has $680,000,000..
I don't think even the richest artist in japan has that much money.
I am totally not surprised that she is not on this list... LOL

I think she's one of the richest, if not the number one richest woman entertainer.

I can't think of anyone else who does more than her, and sells more than her.
Yeah, and Utada came from a rich family already.. well not super rich, but, well off.

Ayumi had very little.

I think Ayumi's story is much more impressive~ LOL

But yeah, it's illegal to disclose what people make.. but if you have their tax payment, then you can find out. People who pay higher tax are richest.

And we all know she buys hundreds of shoes every year, or close to it! LOL

she has more money than all of us together will ever have TT______TT