Despite the horrendous ticket sales and several canceled shows of her ‘Last Girl On Earth’ tour, Rihanna’s team made sure that she made a profit. The vocal joke (seen in a new promotional image above) reportedly earned a standard rate of $410k per show regardless of box office sales and 80% of all earnings exceeding $565k. These figures mean that Rihanna earns over $100k and $250k more than Justin Bieber and Drake respectively. {Source}
Clearly Rihanna is able to command such a payout because most of her shows receive substantial sponsorship as part of her many lucrative endorsements, thus the cost of those events are generally covered in advance. Furthermore, her label undoubtedly takes the remainder of the revenue as part of their possible 360 deal where they are entitled to part of all revenue generated from her record sales and concert box office profits.
Still, after the failure of her ‘Last Girl On Earth’ tour in the US, Rihanna’s contract will almost certainly be renegotiated to entail a considerably smaller payout. I highly doubt that her camp will take such changes lightly, however, because we all know that because of the little creative input adds to her music, she does not make a large sum of money from royalty payments (if she gets any at all) and her main source of income comes from concerts and endorsement deals.
Sidebar: Rihanna makes all that money yet she can’t hire a proper vocal coach or learn how to dance. I guess her investments in high fashion and hair colouring is more important to her. I’m judging you Rihanna.