Taylor Swift is pop music's top earner
Taylor Swift has been crowned the highest paid musician in the world after raking in an impressive £22million in one year alone. The 22-year-old country singer has topped Billboard Magazine's Music Money Makers' List after amassing an impressive fortune
Taylor Swift has topped the Top 40 Money Makers List on Billboard Taylor Swift has made the most money by an artist or band in the past year according to Billboard Its thought that Swift earned just over 35 7 million which is 17 more than last.
The singer is the top act on Billboard’s just-released Top 40 Money Makers list for last year.Swift earned more than $35.7 million, 17% more than the take-home pay of last year’s top-earner, Lady Gaga. U2 was second with $32 million. Artists’ rankings were based on U.S. income sources from tours, albums sales and publishing royalties.Adele took
The Love Story topped the annual list of music's biggest money makers after raking in $35.7 million (£22.5 million) from album sales and her 2011 world tour, with U2, Kenny Chesney, Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne rounding out the top five.
The 22-year-old sold more than 1.8million albums in the US alone last year, while her Speak Now tour grossed $88.5million in the US, making a profit of $29.8million.
Taylor Swift has beaten Adele and Lady Gaga to be named the highest-earning pop artist of 2011 by trade publication Billboard.
The 22-year-old earned $35,719,902 (£22.7m) in 2011 from a combination of music sales, royalties and touring. As to where’s all this money from? Most of it was from her Speak Now tour, which was widely successful, but Taylor also made big bucks off her album and from royalties, since she wrote all the songs on the record.
Irish rockers U2 took second place with $32m (£20m) thanks to their 360 tour, seen by more than seven million people.
Kenny Chesney came third, followed by last year's highest earner, Lady Gaga, while Adele came 10th.
The British singer had the biggest-selling album of the year, but her earnings were affected by the cancellation of her North American tour for throat surgery.
While the phenomenal success of album 21 helped Adele earn millions, the Grammy and Brit Award winning singer had to cancel a string of live dates including the US leg of her tour after a recurring throat problem, explaining why Adele didn’t feature higher up in the list.
Taylor pushed last year's highest earner Lady Gaga into fourth. The 'Born This Way' star earned $25.4 million, which put her behind U2 and Kenny Chesney who were second and third respectively.
The top ten biggest money makers in music 2011, according to Billboard:
1. Taylor Swift - $35.7 million (£22.5 million)
2. U2 - $32.2 million (£20.5 million)
3. Kenny Chesney - $29.8 million (£19 million)
4. Lady Gaga - $25.3 million (£16.1 million)
5. Lil Wayne - $23.2 million (£14.8 million)
6. Sade - $16.4 million (£10.5 million)
7. Bon Jovi - $15.8 million (£10 million)
8. Celine Dion - $14.3 million (£9.1 million)
9. Jason Aldean - $13.4 million (£8.6 million)
10. Adele - $13.1 million (£8.4 million)
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