If money talks, today sees it ‘fix its lips’ to praise the 10 highest paid women in music, congratulating them on a job well done this year!
Indeed, using accurate data pulled from their managers, RIAA, their attorneys, Pollstar and Nielsen SoundScan, Forbes have compiled the official list of the year’s highest earning Pop belles, featuring appearances by Beyonce, Madonna, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Lady GaGa.
Who made what and how?
Details below…
No. 1: Madonna ($125 million)
No. 2: Lady Gaga ($80 million)
No. 3: Taylor Swift ($55 million)
No. 4: Beyoncé ($53 million)
No. 5: Jennifer Lopez ($45 million)
No. 6: Rihanna ($43 million)
No. 7: Katy Perry ($39 million)
No. 8: Pink ($32 million)
No. 9: Carrie Underwood ($31 million)
No. 10: Mariah Carey ($29 million, tie)
No. 10: Nicki Minaj ($29 million, tie)
So, how did the ladies above generate the sizeable amounts they can now boast of?
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Lmao yall to petty for that Rihanna video Lmao hahahahahaha
like i said before yall called gaga the biggest flop yet shes slaying Beyonce Rihanna Nicki and Katy
Yes mariah!!!! She may be tied with nicki for overall sales THIS year but she’s right up there next to Madonna as overall richest women in entertainment..
YASS NICKI GET THE MONEY! HATERZ GONNA HATE BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? F*** THEM! only rap b**** on the forbes list! why yew bitc.hes pressed tho? kiii
@Applause Those Are Earnings Calculated From June 2012-13. So For Beyonce & Rihanna, Their Earnings From Their Tours Are Not Included. Those Still Are Pretty Good Numbers For All Of These Women!
Don’t give a f*** gaga still slaying them boo.
Lol You’re Right. #NumbersDontLie
Um why is Mariah at the bottom and how is Taylor Swift
making more then Beyonce? Your sources are invalid and
so are your facts. Mariah is in the 100 million mark and
beyonce is past the 50 mil mark.
why are yall deleting comments?!!
WTF!! If the Pepsi endorsement is add to this that means Beyonce only made $3 million from her music & other endorsements then. Its funny that Nicki stans have been bragging about how Nicki has done this and that, featured here and there all year and still couldn’t even surpass Mariah who’s only released two songs, a Australian tour which she earned more than Nicki tour, and majority of her earnings came from Idol. Laughable.
WHAT THE F*** DID MADONNA DO THIS YEAR TO EARN HER 125 MILLION BUCKS.. MY LORD SHE IS TRUELY THE QUEEN OF POP
Nicki been on more songs then anyone this year and that’s the best she can do? congratulations to katy bey madonna and rihanna.
Queen Madge slaying THIEFyonce and T***** Caca. No ONE can beat the legendary Madonna.
NOT SLAYdy GODga getting more coinage than all your faves, so much for being a flop 😀 😀
i am here for @TROLLbird’s meltdowns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
kiiiiiiiii
There’s only one Queen and that’s MADONNA. Beyonce and Caca will NEVER touch Madonna’s success. Thiefyonce and T***** Caca will NEVER be a Legend or Icon. All hail to the REAL Queen.
but where is amanda on the list????
i would also be mad 😀
it took Beyonce 15 years to get where she’s at and it only took Taylor and GaGa less then 7 Years to get where there at and make more money then Beyonce Lmao that’s a kiiiiiiii.
Beyonce the self proclaimed KING yet she’s behind GaGa and Taylor who haven’t even been out for 10 years yet.
Amanda is a dumb h** don’t mind it.
Overall considering that Beyoncé didn’t have a tour or album during 2012. This is pretty much very good. Congratulations to all Madge ,Lady Gaga , JLO, MC etc…
Sam is a shady azzzz b**** LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wh did he put up that video of Riherpes????????????????
😀 😀 😀
@Slaylor Swift that is the ultimate kiiiiiii 😀 😀
Taylor and GaGa slaying h*** Lmao
i know the navy and katy cats salty as f***
Not a Tayhoe Swift cuming for Beyoncé….
Beyonce didn’t have RED released her tour and other endorsement are not counted stop acting like a blonde.
Tayhoe should be worried about her licking and sloppy v***** and ask herself why every man in hollywood is sleeping with her and leaving her after that.
Don’t come for the Queen because I will drag your fucken v***** b****
@cake yes Beyonce is pathetic
Katy Perry > S*** > Urine > Taylor Swift
@FlopLikeCaca
But she’s not a musician to be on that list tho. Amanda is an actress, model and designer.
@Brazilian save your damn excuses hood rat Taylor is still above “King Bey” Lmao
Rihanna basic ass will never make top 5 on any list i see..
Taylor a h** and GaGa a weirdo????? yet Beyonce is a tried FLOP who can’t keep up
Beyonce ain’t no King or Queen. The only REAL Queen is MADONNA. There will NEVER be another queen and she will never able to top Madonna’s level.
can you keep up? obviously Beyonce can’t and neither can Katy or Rihanna ahahahahahahahaha
@AMANDA oh? but that bi.tch is gonna release an rap album… isn’t she? oh the embarrassment! she is gonna flop like no other believe what ever you want she is gonna get dragged by everyone. You and your fave are jokes take several seats you bi.tch. kiiii
This Tayhoe stan needs to have several …. LOL
that Amanda h** stans for floptina
Must suck to be behind Taylor swift and Gaga when your supposed to be the greatest performer since Michael Jackson kiii.
Damn that’s why Madonna is so hated, she is always #1 on almost every list, after 30 years of career, Legendary singers are beneath her, new Pop girls are beneath her. I wonder if anyone still doubts her well-deserved place as the Greatest Female Artist of all time, there’s no other, i think we all agree that she’s far away from being the best singer, not even close to it but when you take into account her body of work and value her material, her discography, tours, her impact in the Popular Culture of the late 20 and beginning of the 21 century, it would be brainless to rank her lower, as far as legacy goes, she challenges even the Beatles, she will be even bigger after her death, her impact is not rivaled by any other female artist, inevitably she will be compared to other female acts but let’s face it, she should only being compared to men in music, the likes of Elvis and The Beatles, not even with Michael jackson, she never stopped to take her legacy to another level and she’s still doing that, let’s appreciate her, while she’s still here, respect and admiration, congrats Madge.
SHUT YOUR SMELLING WET DROLLING IRRITATING MUTHA F****** MOUTH UP! MARIAH IS A F****** TIME MACHINE B****! NICKI IS QUEEN!!! U H**!
ALL YOU HATING AZZES MOVE TO THE OTHER SIDE!!! C****!!! NICKI MINAJ IS COMING Up!
Ummm Madonna is not on the sam level as Elvis Presley SHE IS SURPASS THAT THIEF!
Lol who really believes this list? They do not have access to celebrities bank accounts.
Beyonce is the highest paid black female here. Thats great. When her Tour numbers come in girrl…
Taylor Swift at 3:) She’s also made that money, without needing,to show her body etc in order to sell her music, unlike pretty much all the others in the top 10
Nicki is only 1.5 years in the game and Mariah is so many years…It’s pretty obvious that Mariah got that many money casue she is making music when Nicki wasnt even borned. Nicki made a really good procces for a female rapper that was poor as hell…
So the list is invalid because Bey or Rih isn’t #1. Yall f*** are f****** pathetic. The MDNA World Tour grossed $310 million WW and is the 2nd highest grossing female solo tour behind Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet World Tour which grossed $450 million WW. Madonna is collecting royalties from the 300 million records she’s sold over a 30 yr career. Her net worth is now $800 million, mostly from albums, singles, royalties and touring. All the girls worth is mostly from endorsements.
P.S. I find it funny how yall f*** said The BTW Ball Tour flopped when according to Pollstar it grossed $160 million even with over 25 cancelled dates
Madonna man!
@DarkHorse Nicki’s collaborations werent all famous, thats why, and dont forget that these collaborations are just done so better whait and see.
From June 2012 – June 2013 she made 29M only 12M was from Idol. Which means 15M was from other ventures. Mariah made 18M off idol which mean 11M came from other ventures. Most of Mariah’s money came from Idol not Nicki.
From June 2012-June 2013 Beyoncé wasn’t doing s***. All she had was a few dates in on her 100M+ grossing tour. So her numbers from June 2013-2014 is gonna slay.
Not Beyonce Gaga and Madonna making more money than people with albums and s*** out
I think it’s funny how this post has turned into “All our faves are better than Beyonce”. People on here say she is irrelevant but why do you keep on comparing her with your faves if they are better than her. Her name shouldn’t even be mentioned since she is “irrelevant”.
The Question is : Why would you constantly feel the need to compare your favourite artists to someone who you think is irrelevant ?
I am not surprised to see any of these ladies on the list
they deserve it wholeheartedly
new artist Marcel’s new single “Dare”
http://youtu.be/UjNYIt2znVo
Ummm Bey slays ur fave without a album in years. She just riding by on endorsements and a delayed tour while ur fave sweating trying to promote a flop album.
And oh idiot, that’s just one year figure. Bey and Jay are a Billionaire couple remember dat!
Can long grade b****** read? It says between June 2012 and June 2012. Madonna dropped an album and toured. Taylor Swift also had an album out and was touring. Gaga had just wrapped up her tour. Rihanna had music out and was touring. KING B had just started touring in April. That’s only 2 months counted for and she came in with half of $100 million. Clearly she’s the winner here! But u bishes are to delusional and slow ass hell to realise it lmao. # QUEEEEEEEN
@OVERDOSE
Why would you call someone a flop when you stan for the biggest flop. At least Xtina is more relevant and has 1 hit song. Worry about fave career. The self shade is real. Btw, I also stan for Brit, Lana, Mariah and Queen Madge.
These comments gets more dumber and dumber by the day. Did some dumb ass really say Taylor and Gaga are already on KING B’S LEVEL? Well i guess Gaga and Taylor are both worth over 200 million. Hell neither one are worth over 150 million. While THE QUEEN is pushing $500 million. She’s really worth over a billion as a wife. Them other h*** can only dream of the money THE QUEEN is seeing! #REAL BOSS B****
**That was low grade and June 2013**
READ @digger bey **resumes to getting hair done**
I can tell you a top 10 list Gaga isn’t on this week… the Billboard 200(#13) (#18 on on the singles Hot 100 chart) Poor dat.
jennifer lopez release a single ,live it up and it flop …but still makes 45mil on music alone ….wow
WHERE IS CI- ERROR????????
WHERE IS THAT FLOP T*****???? I THOUGHT HE WAS SLAYING.I HOW DID NIKI MINAJ MAKE IT TO THE LIST BEFORE CI-ERROR???? I CANT AT THE GP PAYING HIM DUST!!! I GUESS HE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO SETTLE DOWN WITH HIS UGLY RAPPER HUSBAND.
Rihanna already clocked their tea by saying she’s only worth 90 million US$, thanks
The thing its that if you compare all of Nicky Minaj has done in this past year, all the features,products,deals, album etc.. its basically low, Mariah hasnt done much, no new album out, most of that money came from idol, the rest are royalties.
Congrats to both
Where is Lana? LMAOOO
Smh..Typical TGJ BIASED shade… when will it stop? That girl’s money sure isn’t stopping any time soon. Get over it.
Right? She stays slaying!
NICKI IS SLAAAAAAYYYING FOR A FEMALE RAPPER! The rest don’t even come close!!
@Zsquared eternally pissing on u & the rest of y’all ugly f-g asses while filming a commercial today .. u mad u wont never get a ring, a** ? 😆 😆
congrats, Nicki ! 🙂
WE all KNOW R**** aint got a pot to p*** in, realistically that 360 caps off 60 percent of her earnings Kiiii ! 🙂 🙂