Touring: $26.2 million
Recording: $0.5 million
Publishing: $0
Net: $26.7 million
2002 rank: N/A

Cher's latest album, Living Proof, topped out at Number Nine on the charts, selling just 465,000. But her legend makes her a solid concert draw. Clear Channel Communications guaranteed her close to $500,000 a night if she went on the road, and her tour ended up as the number-three moneymaker of the year. A glitzy spectacular billed as a farewell tour, it sold out almost all of its ninety-four shows. Cher's manager, Roger Davies, engineered a similarly successful outing for Tina Turner in 2000 (so successful it was extended twice). Charging an average ticket price of seventy-two dollars, Cher grossed $76 million. Her production was an expensive one: With 264 video modules and ten costume changes a night, weekly road costs topped $500,000. Of that $76 million, she kept a cool $25 million.