Here’s who dominated music for the entire year of 2015!
If you remember a few weeks ago, FORBES Magazine unveiled their list for the top women earners in music for the last 12 months. As expected, Katy Perry topped all ladies, racking in $130 million of revenue, largely contributed to her $2 million a night Prismatic World Tour experience over the last year. Now the publication has decided to release the full list of highest-paid musicians for 2015, and the teenage dream songstress is still King and Queen among all fellow artists.
Taylor Swift, who earned $80 million for the year dropped down two spots overall to fourth position, now behind One Direction and Garth Brooks, who took home $130 million and $90 million respectively. On the hip-hop side of things, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was the only artist on the list who didn’t use touring as a source of income throughout the last few months.
His Ciroc vodka brand, Sean John clothing line, and REVOLT network among other non-musical ventures continued to bring in big bucks to his Bad Boy Empire.
Take a look at the entire list of musicians who were doing big things this year below.
01. Katy Perry | $135 million
02. One Direction | $130 million
03. Garth Brooks | $90 million
04. Taylor Swift | $80 million
05. The Eagles | $73.5 million
06. Calvin Harris | $66 million
07. Justin Timberlake | $63.5 million
08. Diddy | $60 million
09. Fleetwood Mac | $59.5 million
10. Lady Gaga | $59 million
FORBES: Top-Earning Women In Music 2015