How much do you have to pay to engage artistes for functions? A list of artistes function fees for China has been exposed on the Internet. Jay Chou and international superstar Jacky Chan top the chart at S$200,000; pop idol Lee-hom Wang's function fee is found to be three times more than that of David Tao's, though both belong to the same league of artistes. Falling shortly behind Chan and Chou are Wang and the four Heavenly Kings - Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai - with function fees of $130,000. King of Mandarin R&B, Tao, is said to only receive S$18,000, an amount less than one-third that of Wang's. Annie Yi, whose extramarital affairs was exposed on tabloids, is said to receive S$70,000 for making appearances at functions; while her husband, Harlem Yu only receives S$50,000 for his appearance. At the bottom of the list is winner of Miss Hong Kong 1994, Halina Tam, receiving S$22,000. However, on China reporter's clarification, the above statistics may be inaccurate. According to sources, Tao earned S$200,000 at the Jiangsu 2009 countdown party by singing just three songs. Hunan TV revealed, Wang's usual function fee is about S$100,000, similar to that of Leon Lai; but for larger scale events such as countdown parties, his fees will escalate to the level of Tao's. Yi's fees is said to have been overestimated; S$70,000 may be the fee for commercial functions but her fee for each episode of drama is only about S$20,000.
