Between sales from major entertainment companies and multimillion-dollar contracts, re-releases of Taylor Swift‘s music catalog helped the singer appear on Forbes‘ list of highest-paid artists in 2022, being the only female singer in the Top 25.
The list, of course, counts the earnings of each of the artists from various branches of entertainment in 2021.
The numbers, according to Forbes, are the result of the income of the artists, before taxes and payments of their legal representations, such as entrepreneurs and lawyers.
💰 | According to @Forbes, Taylor Swift is currently the highest paid female musician for 2022 and the 25th entertainer overall with $52 million dollars earned
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Taylor Swift, as the only female musician on the list, appears at No. 25 with a total of million.
Forbes’ highest-paid artist of 2022 is filmmaker Peter Jackson, director of the “Lord of the Rings” franchise , who sold his visual effects company in November and tops the list with a gross of $580 million .
Among the song names, we still have JAY-Z, Kanye West, Blake Shelton and others. Check the ranking:
Peter Jackson (Cinema) – 580 million
Bruce Springsteen (Music) – 435 million
JAY-Z (Music) – 340 million
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Film and TV) – 270 million
Kanye West (Music) – 235 million
Tray Parker and Matt Stone (TV) – 210 million
Paul Simon (Music) – 200 million
Tyler Perry (Film and TV) – 165 million
Ryan Tedder (Music) – 160 million
Bob Dylan (Music) – 130 million
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Music) – 116 million
Reese Witherspoon (Film and TV) – 115 million
Chuck Lorre (TV) – 100 million
Sean “Diddy” Combs (Music) – 90 million
Dick Wolf (TV) – 86 million
Howard Stern (Radio) – 85 million
Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman, David Crane (TV) – 82 million
Shonda Rhimes (TV) – 81 million
Neil Young (Music) – 80 million
Greg Berlanti (TV) – 75 million
Lindsey Buckingham (Music) – 73 million
Mötley Crüe (Music) – 72 million
Beach Boys (Music) – 64 million
Blake Shelton (Music) – 55 million
Taylor Swift (Music) – 52 million
