Taylor Swift is a billionaire, no shocker there — but the place she stands against different A-listers is sudden to Us.
Forbes dropped their annual World’s Celebrity Billionaires list on Tuesday, April 2, with a slew of notable names that make a reported collective $31 billion. Swift, 34, in fact came in at the backside of the record at No. 14 (one off from her fortunate quantity) with a reported web value of $1.1 billion.
The publication noted that Swift made “$190 million post-tax income” from her Eras Tour concerts and made her “the primary particular person to do it based totally only on songwriting and performing.”
Other musicians gracing the record included Rihanna and Jay-Z, both of whom are also trade owners.
Rihanna, 36, was once ranked within the No. 9 spot, with an estimated net price of $1.4 billion. Aside from her tune profession, she also has stakes in “two billion-dollar manufacturers,” Forbes reported, referencing Fenty Beauty and Savage X Fenty.
Jay-Z, 54, was the highest-ranked musician at No. 5, with a reported $2.5 billion internet worth. The rapper is more of an investor, with stakes in Uber and Block, and he additionally sold his stakes in Armand de Brignac and D’Usse liquor manufacturers through the years. (Forbes noted that Jay-Z’s reported net price does not come with spouse Beyoncé’s cash.)
Perhaps essentially the most surprising superstar that ranked ahead of Swift in this 12 months’s listing was Kim Kardashian, who got here in at No. 6 with a reported net worth of $1.7 billion. Of path, the reality megastar’s Skims shapewear line has allowed her to make a bulk of money lately, as it used to be valued at $Four billion in 2023.
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Law & Order franchise founder Dick Wolf, athletes Magic Johnson, LeBron James, Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan as smartly as directors Tyler Perry, Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are also named on Forbes’ record.
Swift first reached billionaire status in October 2023, according to a report from Bloomberg on the time. The publication said that Swift used to be “some of the few entertainers to reach that standing based on music and performing by myself, the results of paintings and skill, but also canny advertising and timing” — which is similar to what Forbes reported on Tuesday.
The Bloomberg file broke down Swift’s earnings, estimating that her musical catalog is price $400 million. The outlet reported that she’d made an estimated $370 million in live performance sales and merchandise, $a hundred and twenty million streaming profits from Spotify and YouTube and $eighty million in royalties from her song gross sales as of October.
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