10th July 2019
With RiRi richest female musician on Forbes’ annual rich list mainly thanks to Fenty make-up last month (see related stories):
Taylor Swift tops Forbes list of highest-earning celebs (bbc.co.uk).
Forbes estimates the 29-year-old singer made $185m (£148m) in pre-tax earnings in the year beginning 1 June 2018.
With TayTay last topping Forbes’ Celebrity 100 in 2016 thanks to the 1989 World Tour, with the bulk of her 2018/19 earnings—the biggest earnings total of her career—derived from her Reputation stadium tour (Latest Picks 9th May 2018) which Forbes calculated to be the highest-grossing tour in US history.
Social media and reality TV star Kylie Jenner is ranked second on the list with an estimated pre-tax pay packet of $170m (£136m).
Earning a controversial for Kardie-haters place on Forbes’ list of the world’s richest self-made women back in March (see related stories).
Recent/related stories
- Taylor Swift accuses Scooter Braun of ‘manipulative bullying’ after he acquires her music (Blog 2nd July 2019)
- Rihanna is richest female musician on Forbes’ annual rich list (Latest Picks 5th June 2019)
- Kylie Jenner becomes youngest self-made billionaire of all time as Forbes as it unveiled its annual billionaires list (Blog 5th March 2019)
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