Justin Bieber: Proof that money buys happiness
THE best things in life are not free. Whoever first said that hadn’t seen Justin Bieber’s tour bus. Love is allegedly free. It’s not. Maintaining a relationship is expensive as hell.
Growing a family in the United States costs an asinine amount of money. I know, I’ve got a 2-year-old son at daycare right now.
Justin Bieber‘s estimated net worth is in the realm of US$285-US$290 million and it’s believed that he makes around US$80 million a year from tours and ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, streaming, investments, and everything else you’d imagine. The dude is rich and he’s got a preposterously nice tour bus to go along with his embarrassment of riches.
Mr Bieber showed up on the GQ YouTube channel to give a tour of his tour bus. Qualitatively, it’s about 100x nicer than my tiny old NYC apartment. The only thing holding back this bus from being a fullfledged home is the fact that it’s a bus and limited by space. Beyond space, it has every amenity imaginable and I’m sitting here seething with jealousy.
Like most artists, Justin will be on tour for the foreseeable future. He’s got a 45 date “world tour” that begins in June and they’re calling it a “world tour” because of three concerts in his native Canada. These are all makeup dates from a tour that was postponed in 2020 like every other tour on the planet.
He’ll be crisscrossing North America in that sick bus from June 2nd to August 15th and for a guy who is worth over a quarter-billion dollars to be trapped in a bus for that long is HAS TO BE fancy as hell, doesn’t it?
He’ll likely be spending many nights in a Ritz-Carlton or Four Seasons but the bus will be his primary transport between cities and where he’s chilling out before/after shows.