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| Music in the News
Thursday 14 February 2002
Vocabulary from the world of music. Listen to and read the story then find explanations of difficult words below.
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Ageing rockers bank the most in 2001
Summary: The Beatles and U2 top a rock rich list, with Dido the only new entry, according to a new survey. Dido earned £12m in 2001, making her the highest female earner just a year after she first burst onto the scene.
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| | | Dido may have earned £12m last year, but that's nothing compared to Britain's biggest earners in 2001 - U2 and The Beatles. The Beatles banked £65m last year, mostly due to sales of their album '1', while Irish rockers U2 are £60m richer because of a big-selling album and a huge world tour.
Dido's 8.6m album sales put her in fifth place in the survey carried out by Heat magazine. Most of the top 10 are from days gone by, with David Gray the only other newish artist to find a place, in at nine with £8m.
The reason older stars make more money is because they have made loads of albums during their lengthy careers. Even though they sell fewer copies of a single album, the amount they make from all the others means they earn loads of money every year, sometimes without doing any work at all!
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| | | biggest earners
here - the artists who made the most money last year
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| | | banked
if you bank a sum of money, you make/earn it
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| | | rockers
rock'n'roll musicians (an informal word)
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| | | survey
here - research, examination
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| | | from days gone by
here - music stars of the past
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| | | newish
relatively new
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| | | in at nine
here - who entered the list of the richest musicians for the first time, at position number nine
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| | | stars
very famous artists who are also very popular
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| | | loads of
many, a lot of (a colloquial expression)
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