Global Money Makers.

Using these percentages, we extrapolated global sales for 22 artists, based on their high rankings in the top sales and international touring categories used to determine the 2020 U.S. Money Makers list (which Billboard Pro will publish July 19). To estimate global sales, we compared the RIAA's physical and digital revenue report for last year with IFPI's global revenue statistics and found that domestic physical sales made up 30.6% of total global sales (physical music video sales were not counted), while domestic digital sales accounted for 56% of global digital sales. THE MARKET The Market PG. 19 MRC DATA MIDYEAR STATS PG.20 CONSUMER CONCERT DEMAND PG. 22 LIVE AND LOUD CEO NELSON ALBAREDA A LTHOUGH THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS an increasingly global enterprise, reliably measuring the income of artists who are popular on an international scale remains an inexact science. [Extracted from the article]

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