Taylor Swift tops Forbes' list of highest paid female artistes

She earns first place with earnings of a whopping $170 million

03 Nov, 2016

'Wildest Dreams' singer Taylor Swift has topped Forbes' list of highest paid women in music, it was revealed as the annual list came out this week.

Taylor has taken first place with earnings of $170 million, while last year's topper Katy Perry has dropped to sixth place with earnings of just $41 million.

But Taylor is miles (or $$$) ahead of even her closer competitors.

The second spot went to Adele, who earned $80.5 million in the last year. The third, fourth and fifth spots went to Madonna ($76.5 million), Rihanna ($75 million) and Beyonce ($54 million).

The bulk of the artistes earning comes from concert tours.

Taylor's 1989 Tour grossed over a quarter of a billion dollars, Madonna's Rebel Heart tour grossed $170 million and Rihanna and Beyonce also owe their bank balance to successful and lucrative tours, An exception to this is Adele, who earned most of her money through sales of her album 25, the best-selling album of 2015.

Comments

Haider Nov 04, 2016 08:40am

that is a alot of money. its shocking taylor swift earns even more than messi and ronaldo a year. and she is just 26. swifts income is even stanger than mellisa mccarthys.

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Abdul Rehman Nov 04, 2016 11:09am

Taylor Swift is less voice, more glamour, fashion, style whereas, Adele she has amazing voice. she has a very powerful vocal chord and can sing on very high scale as well. She is a true musician. She is beautiful too, but she follows classical fashion. She is somewhat old school in dressing, and old school means elegance and her song "hello" crashed the internet dozen times.

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