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Dr. Dre currently holds the record for the highest annual earnings for a musician, collecting $620 million in 2014, mainly through the sales of his headphone-manufacturing company, Beats Electronics. [9] Madonna is the first woman in music to earn $100 million for a year (2009) and has become the highest-paid female musician a record 11 times.
American rapper Jay-Z is the wealthiest music artist in the world, with Forbes estimating his net worth at $2.5 billion in 2024.. The following is a list of music artists with the highest recorded net worth (also known as wealthiest musicians or richest musicians), based on calculations by reputable publications such as Forbes and The Sunday Times Rich List.
Michael Jackson earned $825 million in 2016, the highest earnings for a celebrity dead or alive in any year. Since his death in mid-2009, he has topped the list every year except for 2009, 2012, and 2021-22.
British 'Hello' singer Adele, 28, ranked second on Forbes' list with $80.5 million in earnings, her highest total yet. Taylor Swift tops Forbes' 2016 list of highest paid women in music Skip to ...
The Forbes Top 40 [1] [2] [3] was an annual list of 40 highest-paid entertainers compiled and published by Forbes magazine from 1987 [4] until 1998. The following year, 1999, it was created the Forbes Celebrity 100. The list was published every September, compiled by using the income of performers over two years to overcome the year-to-year of ...
Country superstar Zac Brown's self-titled band earned $40 million in 2019, according to Forbes -- enough to match the bandleader's net worth. ... One of the world's highest-paid musicians in any ...
In 2011, the eight-time Grammy-winning singer was listed as number 12 on Forbes’s list of “The World’s 25 Highest-Paid Musicians”. At the time, his net worth was estimated to hover around ...
To ensure the highest level of fact checking and editorial control, this list sources sales figures to news organizations and highly regarded music industry related organizations such as Billboard. The figures of total certified units within the tables below are based on certified units of albums, singles (including digital downloads) and videos.