2017 China’s Top 100 Commercially Valuable Celebrities

Another list of China’s most commercially valuable celebrities released by Jie Mian after a vigorous compilation of a lot of data from different apps and sites from the beginning of 2016 to the end of 2016 (even though they call it 2017, it’s technically 2016 data)

This ranking is based on 3 factors: 2016 estimated income (brown), traditional media exposure (orange) and online media ranking (red). Within those factors, they also included drama ratings, online views, movies, variety shows, events, magazines, etc. We posted something similar before here and the ranking differs somewhat. Not really sure what accounts for the difference, but what’s most interesting for me is actually the estimated income of these celebrities

For the top 13, we have:

1. Fan Bing Bing – 244 million Yuan ($35 million dollars)
2. Jackie Chan – 168 million Yuan
3. Jay Chou – 181.5 million Yuan
4. Huang Xiaoming – 167.9 million Yuan
5. Lu Han – 181.6 million Yuan
6. Li Yifeng – 170.7 million Yuan
7. Angelababy 146.8 million Yuan
8. Yang Mi – 124.8 million Yuan
9. Hu Ge – 136.1 million Yuan
10. Liu Tao – 156.1 million Yuan
11. Andy Lau – 128.1 million Yuan
12. Kris Wu – 136.8 million Yuan
13.  Zhao Liying – 104.8 million Yuan ($15 million dollars)

Some interesting facts on the list:

1. When you add up all the income of the 100 people, it equates to 7 billion Yuan

2. 73 out of the 100 are from mainland China and the other 23 are from Hong Kong/Taiwan

3. 66 out of the 100 are males and 44  are females. There’s more information on the site (JieMian) for those who can read Chinese

Source (JieMian)