Last year, Gizmodo's Matt Novak unearthed an old PC Magazine article highlighting a remarkable fact about the music industry: While Aerosmith has sold over 150 million albums and each member has an estimated fortune of well over $100 million, as of 2008, the majority of their money has come from … a video game.īack in 2007, Aerosmith licensed 29 of its songs to Activision, the American video game publisher behind the uber-successful franchise Guitar Hero.
