As Business Insider explained, it's not just a matter of selling recordings: "The majority of an artist's revenue comes from touring, selling merchandise, licensing their music for things like television, movies, or video games, and partnerships or side businesses." AC/DC holds the record for the seventh most-lucrative tour of all time. Per Insider, their 2008-2010 Black Ice tour was the last to feature guitarist Malcolm Young — Angus's brother and co-founder of AC/DC — as well as longtime lead singer Brian Johnson, who was replaced halfway through the tour by Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses. That tour brought in $441.1 million.
Angus Young has continued to tour with AC/DC, and their last tour, 2015-2016's Rock or Bust, sold more tickets than any other live act of 2015, per Loudwire – 2.31 million tickets sold, bringing in $180 million. With a new album, Power Up, set to release in November of 2020, and Brian Johnson back behind the mic, it looks like Angus Young and the rest of the band will be saluting those about to rock for a long time to come.
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