Ten years ago, Taylor Swift was best known as an up-and-coming country singer who’d just been interrupted by Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards. What a difference a decade makes: Fresh off her seventh studio album, Swift is the most-nominated act at this year’s VMAs—and the highest-paid woman in music.of any stripe, pulled in $185 million pretax over the past year. Much of it came from her Reputation Stadium Tour, which grossed a U.S.-record $266 million.
“Taylor and her team understand the subtle yet important art of creating substantial moments,” says Kim Kaupe, a30 Under 30 alum and cofounder of the Superfan Company, which has worked on album packages with Swift in the past. “These moments are not only perfectly captured by fans and media outlets, but they are the perfect bite-sized, PR-ready morsel that the news cycle loves.”
Swift more than doubled the annual tally of music’s second-highest-paid woman, Beyoncé, who clocked $81 million, mostly from her On The Run II stadium tour with husband Jay-Z and herlive album and Netflix special. Rihanna rounds out the top three with $62 million, the bulk of that coming from her Fenty Beauty joint venture with luxury goods giant LVMH.Our list of the world’s highest-paid women in music measures pretax income from June 2018 to June 2019.
Other notable names on the list include newcomer Ariana Grande, who ranks sixth with $48 million, buoyed by two chart-topping albums——released within six months of each other. There are plenty of veterans in the ranks, such as Katy Perry, who raked in $57.5 million, much of it from a lucrative arena tour.
TAYLEGEND OMG
QUEEN SWIFT
ARTIST OF THE DECADE
beyoncé and taylor legends perry
you picked the wrong Lady Gaga lmao watch her amazing performance as LG: lidiaschillaci
Both are amazing women👑
Beyoncé estimate is much higher.
bUt TaYLoR CaN'T SiNg
Taylor ending everyone as usual 💋
The artist of the decade did that!!!! RETWEET KCA VoteTaylorSwiftArtist
blacksheep_inn A sea of mediocrity with a flash or two of greatness. No accounting for people's taste.
Taylor queen tingz omg
YASSSSSSS TAYLOR QUEEN 👑👑👑 StreamTheManByTaylorSwift
samanthaswft BlakeAtah see na
samanthaswft It makes me laugh that probably 90% of Rihanna’s earnings didn’t come from music
samanthaswft Artist of the Decade did that ughh
samanthaswft Holy shit the gap is like 100m wtf
period
Taylor swift queen of the music industry
Ariana Grande ❤️
Wr is ann Marie
If this is 2 men y’all wouldn’t clickbait the title like this
T. Swift= McDonald's quality though
Cc CeboForbes30
SenSanders go get em Bernie.
Eccezionale Lidia schillaci
Way overpaid.
Michelletslm Odio a Taylor swit
Wouszz niet normaal toch
Yayeeeeeee. Taylor I love you. Merry Christmas He Is Born!!!
Katy did that without lifting a finger, rich legend
8 needs fixed
Are your editors THAT dumb?
literally just legends
bmbbersabe check this out! T.S 1
FIRE YOUR EDITOR
Her POWER
KATY LEGEND
Katy legend
8 Lady Gaga
shame of u , that's not it Lady Gaga!
Well Shakira is the only non-pretending latina, debuted in 90s and hasn't released a single in 2 years, I call legend🤷🏻♀️
and for what did u guys use a picture of a gaga look-a-like 😭
That woman is not Gaga
That's not Lady Gaga omg 🤣
OMG TAYLEGEND
shit, a truly queen
Shakira didn't even do anything this year 💀
TAYLEGEND
Who’s gonna tell huh that isn’t Gaga.
THAT’S NOT GAGA YOU CLOWNS
DELETE THAT’S A GAGA IMPERSONATOR IS NOT HER
This is not Lady Gaga! Please rectify ASAP!
Esa no es Lady gaga💀💀💀
Delete this s*** that’s not Lady Gaga
TS7Track3 TAYLOR ALISON SWIFT , I’M A RICH QUEEN
Legend at 10 without even making music this year
SwiftiesIndia13 The gaps between Taylor and Beyonce I-
mom i am a rich man
YOU HAD ONE (1) JOB EMBARRASSING
not them using some random woman as Gaga 😭
caiqueswiftie a diferença do 1 pro 2 meu pai
....thats a gaga impersonator not Lady Gaga in the photo. Lol
paolasegq
that's literally not even Gaga... it's an impersonator. Do your job better please!
THAT ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR GAP adopt me mommy taylorswift13
185 million the fuck !!!
In your face kanyewest 👊🏻 hurts doesn’t it? 😂🤣😌
That’s not Gaga... 🤦🏻♂️
yasss asian queen at 1 as she should!
pqp lenda
meu deus taylor
OH MY GOD THAT'S NOT EVEN GAGA'S PICTURE THAT'S A GAGA IMPERSONATOR FROM A TELEVISION SHOW !!!
Queeeen
TSUpdatesNYBU this_vid
Click bait garbage!
That's not lady gaga, is an imitator 🤣🤣
Taylegend
THIS POWER WTFFF
the gap
QuotedReplies
women run the world wbk
0:14 that is not Lady GAGA 💀
What do these girls do with their money? It must be a boring way of life.
TSwiftNZ Periodtrr
TSwiftNZ cool
TSwiftNZ Oh my 🥰🥰 Queen taylorswift TaylorWins10s
None of them hold a candle to Whitney Houston.
Queen T
people getting mad that taylor made more money but beyoncé noe taylor probably care because they’re both billionaires
Congrats Queen taylorswift13😘
Taylor keeps on winning
Never ever spent a cent on TS. WHO
Of course
What was the point ?
kanyewest where you at
TSwiftNZ TAYLEGEND
TSUpdatesNYBU Queens
TSwiftNZ when was the last time rihanna SANG tho
Both queens let’s not start unnecessary fights now 😌
TSwiftNZ Republic partying when their investment on Taylor paid off. If only they bought Taylor's catalogue as well.
TAYLOR QUEEN
TSUpdatesNYBU Hardworking women of music, we stan
TSUpdatesNYBU Mom, I am a rich man.
TSUpdatesNYBU Taylegend
god, u might not like Taylor, but u have to admit she's damn good at her job. All those exceptional women are anyways.
holyshitTayTay genuflection
How though? Wasn’t the reputation tour gross included in 2018? Or was it not and it included in 2019? Or, oh my God, is that how much her new deal with republic was worth!?
All hard-working and great, awsome job ladies!
Rihanna isn’t even making music anymore and she’s 3rd. We need new music from her stat!
taylorswift13 With this news, would you mind lending me $50,000 so I can get my own tutoring business started next year after I finish my teaching degree?
Let’s not forget to mention she doesn’t work nearly as hard
Racism, pure and simple.
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