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American rapper Jay-Z is the wealthiest music artist in the world, with Forbes estimating his net worth at US$2.5 billion in 2024.. The following is a list of music artists with the highest recorded net worth (also known as wealthiest musicians or richest musicians), based on calculations by reputable publications such as Forbes and The Sunday Times Rich List.
Madonna is the first woman in music to earn $100 million for a year (2009) and has become the highest-paid female musician a record 11 times. Taylor Swift remains the female musician with the highest annual earnings ever with $185 million in 2019, breaking previous record set by herself in 2016 with $170 million.
The following list of best-selling music artists includes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record sales worldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below.
Taylor Swift is the highest-grossing live music artist of all time, collecting $3 billion according to Pollstar. The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live music group of all time, collecting over $2.9 billion according to Billboard Boxscore. U2, Coldplay, and Elton John also passed two-billion mark in concert revenue.
As of December 2024, the highest-grossing tour by a woman is the Eras Tour by Swift, with a revenue of US$2.07 billion from 147 shows. [1] The Eras Tour is also the highest-grossing tour ever overall; its figures were not reported to Billboard , which listed Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour as the all-time top female tour excluding the Eras Tour.
Richard John Beato (/ b i ˈ ɑː t oʊ / bee-AH-toh; born April 24, 1962 [2]) is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and educator.Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer; he has also lectured on music at universities.
While in the recording stages, Kelly met Ann Hampton Callaway, a jazz cabaret singer, who offered to write the liner notes to Kelly's first CD. [1] Grace won numerous ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards. Grace previously won the "Jazz Artist of the Year" for the third time at the 2016 Boston Music Awards' [19] she had won the same award in 2008 ...
Andrew Wells VanWyngarden (born February 1, 1983) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitar player and songwriter for the band MGMT, praised for (according to Interview Magazine) "an uncanny knack for producing pop music that sounds as if it were filtered through a kaleidoscope."