Niall Horan paid himself €2.2m last year after successful world tour
Gordon Deegan
Irish singer-songwriter Niall Horan last year paid himself €2.2 million thanks to a sell-out world tour.
New accounts filed by the Mullingar man’s Jaredon Ltd show that pay at the firm increased by 20 per cent from €1.85 million to €2.23 million in the 12 months to the end of March 2025.
The former One Direction singer enjoyed the €2.2 million pay bonanza after a gruelling tour schedule in 2024, which began on February 20th in Belfast and ended on October 9th in Bogota, Colombia.
One of the tour venues included New York’s Madison Square Garden, where the concert was filmed.
Figures from the trade industry journal Pollstar show that Horan generated €2.65 million at the box office from three shows at the 3Arena in Dublin.
Box office receipts are shared between artist, venue, promoter and ticket seller.
At the end of The Show tour in Bogota last October, Horan posted on X “the past eight months have just been incredible. I’ll never be able to thank you all enough for what you’ve done for me. Every single one of you who came out to each show and made it all an unforgettable experience. Let’s do it all again sometime”.
Horan, who has 39.3 million followers on X and Instagram, is a regular on Irish Rich List surveys after a career that was launched after securing a place in the boyband One Direction in 2010 from his appearance on UK TV show The X Factor.
In the year under review, Horan’s Slow Hands and This Town each passed 1 billion streams on Spotify.
Jaredon employs three people, including fellow directors and accountants to the stars Alan McEvoy and Barry Downes from the Limerick-based Livewire Business Management, which specialises in representing well-known figures in the music, entertainment and sports industries.
Pay to the three totalled €2.32 million and included directors' emoluments in respect of qualifying services last year totalling €30,000.
Cash funds at the company declined from €1.85 million to €106,944. Arising from the €2.32 million staff costs, the company recorded a modest loss of €39,863 last year.
Accumulated profits at the end of March this year totalled €93,000.
Away from the music studio, Horan has been busy investing in the likes of the expanding athleisure Gym+Coffee brand.
Horan is also the founder of Modest! Golf Management that counts Ireland’s leading female golfer, Leona Maguire, among the growing roster of players it represents.
Leona and her sister Lisa Maguire are both on the Modest! Golf Management roster, which also includes three-time Ryder Cup player Tyrrell Hatton; European Tour player Connor Syme; former Walker Cup player Jack Singh Brar; South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout; and former Italian No.1 amateur Guido Migliozzi.