Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Jackie Chan No. 1 on the "2010 The Forbes Richest List"

Yesterday the "2010 The Forbes Richest List" was announced. Jackie Chan was ranked in the top overall with an income of more than 200 million yuan, Jay Chou and Andy Lau followed behind in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Jay Chou had an income of 120 million yuan, which makes him in the lead among the China, Hong Kong and Taiwan singers combined. Suffering from negative news, Zhang Ziyi was ranked in 5th place, but is in 2nd place among the Mainland artists. Based on just income ranking, Chinese basketball player Yao Ming ranks the highest with more than 250 million yuan.

Yesterday on the 7th release of Chinese celebrities, this is the first time that 3 local artists made it top based on income and amount of exposure. 56 year old Jackie Chan had more than 200 million yuan income and strong popularity, which makes him No. 1.

In second place is Jay Chou who has diversified his career, besides being a singer and actor, he also participated in directing work of more than 120 million yuan of income. His old lover Jolin Tsai was ranked 7th, with 46 million yuan. In 3rd place is Andy Lau who was the entertainment circle focus last year with news on his marriage combined with his intensive workload, his income with 86 million yuan.

Income ranking first place (4th place overall), Yao Ming had more than 250 million yuan, but does not compare to his 350 million yuan last year.

Source: Mingpao
Translated by: aZnangel @ AsianEU

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