In Finland the taxes are public information and every year the papers publish who earned what, how much less or more than before, who has to pay more taxes and who gets a refund (lucky me, I do get a big one!) Anyways, the internationally famous Finnish artists are of course also of interest and once again Lauri Ylönen, the lead singer of The Rasmus earned the most: 541.000 euros but that's 100.000 less than last year. It's a lot more than the next one, Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish (378.000) and Ville Valo of Him (360.000). Lauri Tähkä, even if being "only a Finnish" artist singing in Finnish and performing only in Finland almost earned as much as them: 318.000, but the real King of income in Finnish is Kari Tapio with 565.000, more than Lauri Ylönen. That means the best earning pop/rock artist in Finland for the first time in many years earns his money inside the Finnish borders! Mr Lordi or Tomi Putaansuu is far behind with 72.000, much less than a year before (178.000). Anna Abreu tripled her income and earned now 145.900. Jari Sillanpää earned only 56.000 but most likely his money goes through his company. Vesa-Matti Loiri also did 136.000. Amadeus Lundberg earned a total of 1.033. In 2008 that is!
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and what does this mean:"Jari Sillanpää earned only 56.000 but most likely his money goes through his company." did he earn more, but the money is under his companies name???
i am just wondering that ville valo earns that less. bur maybe it is because he hat two or three companies.
before tax, wow. that is realy interessting. i thought that international known musicians like ville valo would earn more money.
greetings from germany, elli