Rolling Stones

Last year’s A Bigger Bang tour grossed $162 million by the end of 2005, besting the band’s prior record of $120 million grossed from 1994′s Voodoo Lounge tour. In February, the band appeared in Rio before an estimated 1.5 million fans, its largest audience ever. Three months later the Stones performed for the first time in China, where government officials banned the group from playing provocative classics like “Brown Sugar” and “Beast of Burden.” But the biggest shocker came in May when guitarist Keith Richards fell from a tree while on vacation in Fiji, prompting emergency brain surgery. But the show will go on: new tour dates for the Stones’ Bigger Bang tour already have been announced.
Pay -$90 million
Power Rank 2