- Dec142011
Lady Gaga Trumps Beyonce & Rihanna As Highest Paid Woman In Music
A hectic schedule of touring, paid appearances and endorsement deals has resulted in a major pay day for one of the world’s most demanded Pop stars. Indeed, the pervasive Lady Gaga has been crowned as the highest paid woman in music with estimated earnings exceeding $90 million.
Forbes has presented the annual list of the music industry’s top-earning female artists and Lady Gaga has far outgrossed competition. In fact, her $90 million total represented double the amount garnered by Taylor Swift, who made $45 million at as the calculated period’s second most successful moneymaker.
Other acts who made an impact on the list were Katy Perry, who took home $44 million at #3, and Beyonce, who was ironically ranked at #4 with $35 million. The latter released her ’4′ album in June 2011.
Elsewhere, Rihanna placed at #5 with $29 million while Adele held the #9 spot with $18 million. However, Adele has already been earmarked for a slot on next year’s tally as these figures were only developed from earnings gathered in the May 2010 to May 2011 period and did not include all of the royalties from her ’21′ album, which sold over 5 million copies in the US as of this week.
See the top 10 highest-earning female musicians of 2011 below:
1. Lady Gaga – $90 million
2. Taylor Swift – $45 million
3. Katy Perry – $44 million
4. Beyonce – $35 million
5. Rihanna – $29 million
6. Pink – $22 million
7. Carrie Underwood – $20 million
8. Celine Dion – $19 million
9. Adele - $18 million
10. Alicia Keys/Britney Spears – $10 million
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Keys: adele, alicia keys, beyonce, britney spears, carrie underwood, celine dion, forbes, lady gaga, pink, rihanna12 Comments
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This is tHe same list from earlier this year. June 2010- June 2011
it really is beyonce’s year of 4. illuminatiiiii
@Eddie I though so too but Adele wasn’t on that one & JLo was!
How did Alicia Keys made 10millions , from what ? real question .
Lady Gaga deserves every penny. Girl sings her ass off and always offer great shows.
Wow @ Britney Spears; you can tell she’s not what she used to be. Keep lip syncing for your life bitch!
i’m honestly surprised to see rihanna in the top 5
Pink hasn’t been doing anything and she’s #6 – i like Pink
U said ironically? What’s ur fucken problem with beyonce? The woman only released album in fucken June.performed in glastonbury.did roseland after Forbes calculated basically she almost did nthng ths fucken year jst like last year u should b screamin abt riri who has been wrkin her ass off since 2005 an adele who has been tourin since last year u a bloody hating person its sad shame
@shaun I think Trent said “ironically” because she is ranked at #4 & her album is called 4…….looks like you missed the joke
lol. Britney has not made that much money cause she’s too lazy to promote and make endorsement deal. Cause you know what she’s not a fame whore anymore.
How much of what they generate do they actually ‘bank’ unto themselves?
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TRENT U FAAAIIIILLLL this list is old… from like early summer