Taylor Swift easily earned the title of highest paid musician of 2016, raking in $170 million (all figures U.S.) according the annual list from Forbes.
That makes her not only the highest paid musician, but the highest paid celebrity of the year. She was $60 million ahead of One Direction who came in second with $110 million. Adele came in third, earning a cool $80.5 million.
Swift was able to top everybody thanks to a record-setting North American tour, which helped fuel sales of her album 1989, and multiple seven-figure endorsement deals.
When ranking celebrities for their yearly list, Forbes looks at pretax income from June 1, 2015 to June 1, 2016 and then deducts management fees.
Take a look at the top 10 highest paid musicians from 2016:
- Taylor Swift: $170 million
- One Direction: $110 million
- Adele: $80.5 million
- Madonna: $76.5 million
- Rihanna: $75 million
- Garth Brooks: $70 million
- AC/DC: $67.5 million
- Rolling Stones: $66.5 million
- Calvin Harris: $63 million
- Diddy: $62 million
You can see the full list from Forbes.
Original article by Bill Galluccio at iHeartRadio