When I grow up I will be a DJ! If the son had said this to his father, he would have tried to talk him out of it, saying that there was no future in it. But if his son presented him with the latest list of the best-paid DJs in the world, recently published by Forbes, then he would certainly give him his blessing, which Beca from Prava Nota also sought from her father. Their earnings are enormous, and at the top we find an old acquaintance, the Scotsman Calvin Harris, who once again remains the king of electronic music.
Calvin Harris is the undisputed king of electronic music, at least when you consider the earnings of the master mixers she recently released Forbes magazine. In the last year, the Scottish producer and DJ deserved to be said and written 66 million US dollars, which is almost twice as much as earned by the other big name of electronic music, the Frenchman David Guetta, which with 37 million "caplja" as much as 29 million behind. Nevertheless, he does not have to look at every dollar or euro. Harris, whose listeners literally eat out of his hands (everything he releases goes like hot cakes), found himself at the top of another list of the biggest earners, namely with Taylor Swift the highest paid celebrity couple (they earned together in the last year 146 million dollars), for a long time Beyoncé and Jay-Z were considered.
In addition to music, brands such as Giorgio Armani for which he became the face of underwear. Harris says that "the rise of electronic music in the last three years has been astronomical," and that he was "fortunately in the right place at the right time." Behind the Scotsman and the Frenchman, the Dutchman took third place DJ Tiësto (US$36 million), and the top five are rounded out by Americans Sonny Moore aka Skrillex and Steve Aoki, who both increased their wallets by 24 million.
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DJ earnings are increasing year by year. In the last 12 months came at the expense of the top ten from the ranking 274 million US dollars, which is more than once more than in 2012, when the top ten registered 116 million American greenies. Nevertheless, growth is not as high as a few years ago. Even in 2013, there was a jump compared to the previous year 108 percent, fell to 11 percent between 2013 and 2014, and compared to last year it was only 2.5 percent.
One reason, according to Forbes, is that it is the market became more saturated, prices for performances, etc., no longer grew so drastically. In addition, greater competition forces them to do more spectacular shows as they once had, when they only needed a little more than a USB drive, and this eats up a huge part of their income (between 30 and 40 percent). Nevertheless, they do not write badly.
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