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Dr. Dre currently holds the record for the highest annual earnings for a musician, collecting $620 million in 2014, mainly through the sales of his headphone-manufacturing company, Beats Electronics. [9] 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.
American rapper Jay-Z is the wealthiest music artist in the world, with Forbes estimating his net worth at $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.
The Rolling Stones are the highest-grossing live music act of all time, collecting over $2.6 billion according to Billboard Boxscore. The band is followed by U2 and Elton John, who both also passed two-billion mark in concert revenue. The concert industry is very male-dominated, [1] and only four women have grossed more than $1 billion (as of ...
The following list of best-selling music artistsincludes musical artists from the 20th century to the present with claims of 75 million or more record salesworldwide. The sales figures are calculated based on the formula detailed below. The tables are listed with each artist's claimed sales figure(s) and their total independently certified ...
Clockwise from top left: Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Madonna.Four of the artists who have had the largest recording contracts up to one point. [a]The following is a list of the largest music deals in history signed by artists, including recording contracts and multi-rights agreements with over $50 million, as well catalog acquisitions with a reported sum of over $150 ...
List of highest-grossing concert tours. Coldplay 's Music of the Spheres World Tour and Taylor Swift 's Eras Tour are the only concert tours in history to yield over $1 billion in revenue. The following is a list of concert tours that have generated the most gross income, largely from ticket sales. The rankings are based largely on reports by ...
As of November 2023, the highest-grossing tour by a woman is the Eras Tour by Swift, with a revenue of $1.039 billion from 60 concerts. [ a ] The Eras Tour is also the overall highest-grossing tour ever; its figures were not reported to Billboard , which listed Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour as the all-time top female tour excluding the Eras ...
This article lists the most-attended concerts of all time. The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead 's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. The concert was attended by 107,019 people. Internationally, 40 paid concerts have surpassed the initial record set by Grateful Dead.