‘Sail On‘ chanteuse Beyonce has done it again!
Yes, after giving former manager Mathew Knowles the boot in 2011, the entertainer has seen her brand reach exciting new heights in the years following, using her star power to secure deals that have no doubt made her the envy of a rival Pop superstar.
So, spare a thought for said superstars today as they learn that they’ve been outperformed by ‘Yonce once again.
Who, what, where and why?
All will be revealed below…
When naming 2014’s highest earning women in music, ‘Forbes’ reports:
In 2013, Beyoncé had one of her best years in recent memory, pulling in $53 million. How did she follow the feat? By more than doubling that total in 2014. The superstar singer enjoyed the biggest year of her career, earning $115 million—making her the top-earning woman in the music business.
“Like everyone else, you work really hard and you want it to be great; you want your friends to like it,” she told FORBES five years ago. “What makes me feel comfortable is practice and knowing I’m prepared.”
The same holds true today. Beyoncé played 95 shows during our scoring period, bringing in an average $2.4 million per city, according to Pollstar. She added endorsement deals from the likes of H&M and Pepsi PEP +0.18%—plus her self-titled surprise album, which hit iTunes in December 2013 and quickly became one of the year’s top sellers—to send her income into nine-figure territory.
1. Beyonce – $115 Million
2. Taylor Swift – $64 Million
3. P!nk – $52 Million
4. Rihanna – $48 Million
5. Katy Perry – $40 Million
6. Jennifer Lopez – $37 Million
7. Miley Cyrus – $36 Million
8. Celine Dion – $36 Million
9. Lady Gaga – $33 Million
10. Britney Spears – $30 MillionOur figures are calculated by looking at income from touring, record sales, publishing, merchandise sales, endorsements and other ventures. Management and attorney fees are not deducted. Earnings are calculated from June 2013 to June 2014 and based on data from Pollstar, the RIAA and Nielsen SoundScan, and from interviews with managers, lawyers and executives.
Get dem coins! 😉
This isn’t n e thing new Queen Bey works hard for them coins with no promo, no interviews TV cameos or showings! She hardly worked while working and Enjoyed her family and life in the process! She makes coins in her sleep
Congrats to all women in this list it really is a good FeAt!!!!!
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Not really celebrating her earnings but the way the FACTS always seems to shut her haters THE HELL UP!
Lol at the end of the day this is her JOB! For all the haters saying y her fans are so happy bout the BIGGEST achievement any one can make in their WORK LIFE.. Out performing your competition from ONE to TEN!
QUEEN! Slaying left, right and centre!
Waits for the ‘I dont take Forbes seriously’ comments because their fave is flopping on it.
I don’t think that anyone on THAT list is flopping…
are we surprised? while the lessors rant about singles sales this WOMAN is banking from Albums and Tours making more $ without singles !PRIORITIES! PRIORITIES!
You tell em!
Oh and who can forget the ‘why are you stanning for other peoples money’ comments. Yet you sit on the blog 24/7 arguing about statistics that are not yours.
I will never understand ‘stanning’ for someone else’s sales… It’s stupid. Get your own money, then talk! While everyone on here argues about people’s statistics the said person remains UNBOTHERED
Well I have my own money and there’s nothing wrong with celebrating the success of others. Especially when you have seen this person work extremely hard for the past 20 years. Only haters wouldn’t get that.
I appreciate the work.. Don’t care about the sales. As long as I like it, it’s a hit in my eyes. Spoken as a fan of MUSIC and not celebrity culture
Only the Queen bow down b******.
Lmaooooooo Beyoncé runs this industry!!!!!!!!!! #BowDown b******!
Slay slay slay!
Beyonce is getting big dollars! No denying that..
#TheWritingsOnTheWall
#ThouShallNotHate
She’s not bossy, she’s the BOSS!
Objective: The most successful and most talented woman in music right now. And I’m not even being bias. Nothing but facts.
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#Queen #Goddess #BowTheFuckDown
The hardest working woman in the industry. Might I add MOST talented, as well. Work Bey 😉
Lol, they’re are plenty of people in the industry that shits on beyonce Vocally and artistically but considering how you worship her you’re to blind to see it. Do you even listen to any other artist other than Beyonce?
Yes b****, I listen to several other artists. Beyonce is just one of the more talented ones that I listen to. It is my opinion that she is the best, and SEVERAL other’s opinion as well. Just because I am a fan doesn’t mean I worship her b****. Don’t get it twisted.
Such a good business woman.
*Throws coins at haters faces* Take that b******!
Congrats to her, but she has to tour a million
times with super expensive tickets.. She has to
work a million times harder just to achieve what her peers do.. Congrats tho.. She do be making that dough !!
How so? elaborate…
The fact that she can sell tickets for expensive prices is why she slays. Madonna isnt the top Touring female artist by selling cheap tickets. Her prices are sky high. Try again.
Honey, she better pimp ya’ll stans out i’m not mad you better play em to the 9’s Bey 🙂
Oh and, only 95 dates were counted. Plus, she had less dates than gaga and still outgrossed her. Just stop with that.
Her peers are not even on her level though. She dropped an album out of nowhere and sells better than her peers. She releases news about a tour and the tickets sell out in within minutes. She releases an album and doesn’t even bother to promote, yet she’s still catching everyone’s attention and selling albums. She hasn’t worked hard at all, other than touring, but she’s a touring artist and respected as a critically acclaimed performer. Of course she’s going to tour. The demand is there. 33 years old and still competing with the little girls she inspired.
BTW What are her peers achieving that she hasn’t already?
Oh Bey I can’t feel my edges.Where my weave at?…This woman slays from left to right.Way to go Bey
While the haters are ranting about her diction and flopping singles, she is slaying your faves in EVERY categories that actually matter. Sip on that tea 😉 .
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Death at her making more than Rihanna 2 years in a fuckinggg row and tho!! And he fact that she made over twice as much as the “GLOBAL” superstar Bwahahahaa
Rihanna hasn’t put any music out lately and didn’t tour as much… 48Mill is good. R8 is on its way… I’m sure everyone of us would love to make half as much as any of these ladies.
Who needs a number 1 single, when you bringing in 100+ million $’s…??? Beyonce is UNBOTHERED
Who need songs that people will love and listen to if your fave makes a lot of money?
But people love and listen to Beyoncé. Hence why the Hive exists and she CAN make money.
Yaaaassssss, she better pimp out her stans for those coins. Get money bish 🙂
Give credit where it’s due! She made twice as much(or more), than the other women on the list. That is pure slayage!
#KeepItReal
WHEN WILL RIHWHORENNA THO??????? SHE CAN CLING TO THOSE FORGETTABLE NO 1 SINGLES, BUT BEY IS MAKING MORE MONEY DAN A LOT OF THERE STARS COMBINED.LOL
But rihanna is doing her thing too though. Why make this a competition?
I agree. #4 is nothing to sneeze at. They are both the most successful black women in the industry. No one can say either of them are a flop…
They both killing the game in their own lanes..
I’M NOT MAKING IT A COMPETITION, I WAS JUST TRYING TO MAKE THOSE NAVY THOTS SEETHE FOR THE GODS…..LOL, BECAUSE U KNOW IF IT WAS D OTHER WAY ROUND, THEY WILL BE PERCHED ON THIS BLOG THROWING SHADE AT MT FAVE….#FACTSONLY
I can’t take you seriously… Fix yourself ! I see what you’re saying but how you’re saying it insults me and your reasoning is childish
People on here always talking about single sales when that cash goes to record companies. Beyonce focuses on BUSINESS… Everyone tops charts these day.. Not everyone tops Forbes. Think about that and understand why we call her QUEEN Bey
LOL!
That’s so true. That’s how you can tell which artists were actually concerned about the business and securing their future, bc those are the ones that still have millions to spend.
LMAO at Lady Gaga even Katy is shitting on top. At least my fav is N04 with No Album. Congrats to Bey & all of them. Go get them coins.
The Queen Bey is slaying and Rihanna is winning in her own lane #EnoughSaid
We top 5 with no new material since 2012??
Slay Queen
King Bey indeed.
And the navy was bragging about rihanna is 4 on this list when she gets the top spot then ya’ll can celebrate….Death!
I see Queen Bee big pimping. 🙂
I had to add though, who knew Taylor was getting it like that?
Yasssss!!! Get that money, honey…
Yesss bish. Hot 100 who? The hive aint making excuses when they say shes #UNBOTHERED. Shes making double your faves have without that and her albums still sell more than your faves. Thats why she runs this motha. Beyonce has been there with her hits, shes already a young legend. Shes carved her name. She stays a step ahead now. Thats what its about.
Lol i thought Rihanna was on top of her game, n she couldn’t do half of Bey’s earnings……….. Hold up where is Ciara?? N death @ lady gaga at the bottom of the barrel under miley cyrus.
Forbes doesn’t know a Ciara.
Lol even Ford doesn’t know Ciara. If only Future paid his 5th baby mama’s support, she wouldn’t be walking on the street with her Daddy
Well good for her.
But even when LB says something nice, y’all thumbs down? Smh..
#NotThatSerious
ARE U LOVEBIRD OR LOVEBIRD’S REASONABLE LONG LOST EDUCATED DISTANT RELATIVE?????? BECAUSE HATEBIRD WOULD NORMALLY NOT SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT BEY..I’M CONFUSED!!!!!
LOVE THIS >> “What makes me feel comfortable is practice and knowing I’m prepared.”
The QUEEN of Forbes! Congrats to the Bajan w**** too. Top 5 is good as well.
I guess this list proves one thing though, celebrities are overpaid.
They work hard for theirs honey. Get your money up, low down dirty scoundrel.
Well, B told us “I’m making all these racks” … That grown woman stays paid!
Lol. Stacks of Racks. Hey Kev!
Yesss, Racks on racks on racks!
Hey McGee! 🙂
The SLAYAGE a is real… Haters can talk all they want but Beyoncè is laughing straight to the BANK
Somebody help me find Ciara. I’m thinking of calling the army to conduct a nationwide search for her. The way her stans talk shiit about other artists, you’d think she’d top this list.
– I’m not surprised Bey is topping Forbes. She works hard and deserves it. Just look at the gap between her and her lessers.
Kiiiii wheres Blue Ivy Carter Rodruiguez who was saying she wasn’t going to profit much this year? You have the nerve to call me dumb when I was more accurate than you.
LOL that thing thinks she knows everything. I remember that comment
LOL I am laughing at Rihanna. She claims to be the fashion bad b**** yet she has been caught jacking from kepis, fefe and Rita, now, Rita books more fashion deals than her and gets 1st options on clothes.s
She claims to be the biggest pop star but ONCE AGAIN SHE MUKRED BY KATY, TAY AND QUEEN OF POP BEYONCE
SHE claims to be sexiest but men hit and quit and CB dumped her for an asian.
June 2013 she had stay and her stadium tour and yet she made only 48 million.
48 million more than you… Let that burn hater. See you in church next Sunday
Lol silly kids. Her BRAND earned $115 million, she didn’t personally pocket $115 million. There’s a difference.
WHICH IS more scary for rihanna, who will done at before 30/ WORD ON THE STREET is that rihanna is in financial trouble. She blows to much on her entourage and her tours are not making profit. 48 mill is too low for a woman who claims to be the NUMBER 1 pop star in the world based on number 1 singles
We know fool. Its still way more than everyone elses brand. So inevitably, she personally pocketed more than everyone else as a result. Dumbasssz
AND THEY KEEP SAYING SHE IS THE BIGGEST POP STATR IN THE WORLD AND yet look at how pitiful her stats are when they measure up.
Taylor and Beyonce may go head to head for this year? But Iam sure beyonce will still win. Seems like 2015 will be when Taylor gives her a run for her money, unless Beyonce comes out with new things, tours, and a complete new album (not the repackaged one).
A lot of money for J.Lo despite her flop album and without touring, great. Poor those who have to travel all around the world touring and have hits yet can’t make that list.
and LOL Rihanna didn’t do s*** this year
LOL LOL The list is from June 2013 when she was on her so called sell out stadium tour and look at what she took? SHE FLOPPED END OF
Can we get some love for P!nk.. Over a decade in the game, still respected and getting major money with less hits of recent than anyone else in that list (not including dion and spears)!!! Love P!nk
Yess Pink is the epitome of a dark horse slaying. I cant at her making more than Rihannas brand.
she tour more and longer than Rihanna so she should make more
Excuses.She doesn’t have half the endorsements Rihanna had. And Rihanna still had a big Tour on top of that.
Congrats to Queen Bey and the rest of the chicks in the top ten. Some of yall on here are really straight up losers. If you’re a top ten money maker in the music industry when there are HELLLLLLLLLA music artists, then you’re slaying. Anyone trying to shade rihanna, gaga and katy when CLEARLY theyre doing their thing as well, is really just pathetic. Did you even make 60k this year? Have a seat
how much does she make from getting credit for songs she did not write?
I´m sure a lot! LOL Unfair.
So sad, they’re jumping for Beyoncé making alot of money from over charging them for tickets and albums. Lol, you guys are blind sheep. MJ jad millions if not a billion and that LAST thing his fans would brag about is the money he made vs the music he made. Same with every legend, but the pest wouldn’t know anything about that topic.
A fan of Rihanna’s calling someone a blind sheep. oh the irony. Bey’s concert tickets are expensive because she is worth the money. Beyonce’s fans know when they spend money on something, it will be QUALITY! The reason her album is selling for $16 and hasn’t been discounted, like others.
Secondly, this is a post about Beyonce’s earnings. Of course her fans are going to be excited for her. It just goes to show how superior her brand is. It’s not her fault that others churn out album after album and hit after hit and work like slaves, to only be less successful. This has nothing to do with MJ and his geriatric fans from the 90’s. There was no social media at that time, so of course things are A LOT different. How about you try not to be so bitter…. 😀
Slay hive well said thank you let continue to love and support our bey don’t let the haters get to us
Ummm…if this were Rihanna, and her lack luster vocals that we were talking about here, I’d agree with you. But Beyonce puts on a damn good high energy show. She’s the most commercially viable entertainer of our time for a REASON. So no, we aren’t being over charged #WellWorthIt
Oh honey stop seething and just congratulate. She is slaying everyone to the fifth power, including your fav, but your fav is doing her thing too- just not like Bey. It is what it is hunny.
What was overcharged? AMAZING shows don’t come cheap, but then a Rihanna fan uld not know much about that.
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Taylor sells 1 million 316, 427 couples of 1989 in a week.
*Copies
You get what you pay for. This is why she is HBIC.
1. Let us give it up for TWO of the top 4 ladies being black
2. RIH didn’t drop an album or tour or really anything yet still banking $43MIL
3. We see you PINK!!!
No hun, Diamonds Tour was counted.
well thank you for correcting me. I forgot they start in JULY with forbes counting….I am sure that counted for her entire earnings being that is started MARCH right?!?!
You go bey I am very happy for you your talente and hard work pay off as for the haters who don’t want us to to be happy for her shame on you I am a hard worker I love to see that bey is getting what she deserve long live queen May God continue to bless protect you and your family for life long happy life ever lasting long happy married more success in all you do good luck with every thing you do
Slay. Can we get a post on Simon Cowell comparing her to Michael Jackson.
Werk mother, I see you RiRi … Congrats to all the ladies get money baby!!!!!
For effs sake she made almost double the #2 spot, let alone the Top 5. Slay a bit. #CommercialGem
Shes still got ha money.
Pink’s snatching more wigs than I thought. Well done.
Kinda shocked Nicki ain’t there too.
Rihanna Navy we in this b****!!!! #4 with a few tour dates and no new music.Beyonce did 3 million tours so of coarse her take is going to be high.Rihanna still slayed!!!!
Reading is fundamental. Only 95 dates from the Mrs Carter show were counted. And It did not include OTR Tour.
So only 95 dates were counted and she made that much?? Rihanna diamonds world tour dates were all coounted right.. Anyone remember how the fans of the worldwide star were braging about stadium tours??? Well congrats to Celin dion and pink,they have soo many years in this industry, but didnt Rihanna earn something similar last year but she didnt do any touring? Something is fishy here! I wish she could step-up her Boss game so that she could bank a lot,but that is still a lot of money so cograts to all women in this top ten…..
let me just say this once.. As of November 2014, BEYONCE’s net worth is over $536 million! Are we surprised? 😉 #bowdown
She isn’t called thiefyonce for nothing
^^^what did she steal to be a top earner? And i cant seem to find nicki there..
I never believe forbes list. Their math never makes sense. Its a guesstimate not fact. I know no one from rihanna or beyonce camp would give them info.
LOL dead at Celine Dion constantly being in the top10 of these lists since… the 90s? And without even trying to have a serious recording career anymore 🙂
Anyway, these lists are pointless since they are not trust worthly, since they cook several every year and since we shouldn´t care what others earn, especially when it´s not too fair that a few people earn as much (although I hope you all understand this is not what these people really earned for themselves :)).