Billionaires

[red_harrington]

I was reading Taylor Swift is now a billionaire. She certainly didn't get that way from Spotify royalties.

I also note that #1 billionaire rich person Bernard Arnault (in reality it's Putin but nobody mentions that) reminds me of Mr Burns:

 

[Ingleby_Flash]

3,381 billionaires in the world.

 

[Doom_On_Horseback]

I was reading Taylor Swift is now a billionaire. She certainly didn't get that way from Spotify royalties.

I also note that #1 billionaire rich person Bernard Arnault (in reality it's Putin but nobody mentions that) reminds me of Mr Burns:

Could you dumb it down a notch for me? In reality is Putin?

 

[sherlock]

I was reading Taylor Swift is now a billionaire. She certainly didn't get that way from Spotify royalties.

Mainly from touring, and then sales from all of the album re-records.

 

[jeff_potato]

Sometimes these published figures for musicians are way off the mark if they simply multiply tickets sold by average cost because she doesn't get every cent and penny from ticket sales. Trucks, drivers, air freight and dancers don't work with a musician as a charitable donation.

 

[sherlock]

Sometimes these published figures for musicians are way off the mark if they simply multiply tickets sold by average cost because she doesn't get every cent and penny from ticket sales. Trucks, drivers, air freight and dancers don't work with a musician as a charitable donation.

Taylor Swift is well known to be extremely generous to her tour staff. For example each truck driver for the Eras tour got a handwritten note and a bonus of $100,000 on top of their salary.

I’d imagine one reason she has the same dancers, backing singers and band as 10 years ago is because she knows how to treat people.

 

[El Guapo]

1,000,000,000,000

1,000,000,000

What do you think?

 

[sherlock]

1,000,000,000,000

1,000,000,000

What do you think?

Top one is a trillion.

Bottom one is a billion.

 

[El Guapo]

Top one is a trillion.

Bottom one is a billion.

I always thought top one was the British definition and the second was the American definition.


Edit: seems so…..

“Historically, however, in the UK the term billion meant 1 million million – 1,000,000,000,000 - but in the United States the term was used to refer to 1 thousand million.”

I think the British are / were correct personally

 

[sherlock]

I always thought top one was the British definition and the second was the American definition.


Edit: seems do

“Historically, however, in the UK the term billion meant 1 million million – 1,000,000,000,000 - but in the United States the term was used to refer to 1 thousand million.”

I think a billion is a thousand million everywhere.

 

[El Guapo]

I think a billion is a thousand million everywhere.

Probs is these days. Think British definition is more accurate though. A million million as opposed to a thousand million.

 

[sherlock]

A million million is a trillion I’d have said.

 

[El Guapo]

A million million is a trillion I’d have said.

I honestly don’t know.

 

[RedAsABeetroot]

I wonder how many of the 3381 post on here?

 

[Aztec chimera]

A million million is a trillion I’d have said.

A million million was always the British definition (and rightly so as that's just how numbers work) of a billion until fairly recently, when they adopted the American system.

 

[king_hellfire]

(and rightly so as that's just how numbers work)

That’s how numbers work?

Yes, ten 10s are 100, and one thousand 1,000s are a million but one hundred 100s isn’t 1,000.

 

[gravy173]

Why is a thousand also a millennium

 

[SmallTown]

I was reading Taylor Swift is now a billionaire. She certainly didn't get that way from Spotify royalties.

No she got it from touring mainly. What are you trying to suggest?

 

[SmallTown]

Why is a thousand also a millennium

It isn't, strictly speaking. A millennium is a measure of time only

 

[Brian Marwood]

It isn't, strictly speaking. A millennium is a measure of time only

And a Robbie Williams song.