Forbes: Highest Paid Female Musicians 2016

The highest paid female musician of 2016 is a 26-year-old American singer Taylor Swift, which thus once again sat on the throne, which she had already occupied in 2014, but then her great rival knocked her from the top last year Katy Perry. This year, it fell down the rankings, as it earned 'merely' 41 million, which is almost 100 million less than last year, and landed only on the sixth step.

That is why Swift earned almost as much more than last year, who in the past period (between June 1, 2015 and June 1, 2016) earned just 170 million US dollars (last year it landed in second place with 80 million) and thus easily swept away the competition. She tipped most of the earnings to her 1989 World Tour, a lot was accumulated from the single side as well Wildest Dreams, and they added sponsorship contracts with companies such as Apple, Diet Coke and Keds.

This year, Swiftowa became, among other things, the first woman in history with two Grammys for Album of the Year, and at the BMI pop awards one of the awards was named after her, which only testifies to her 'reach'.

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The British woman took second place Adele, which is according to the calculations of Forbes magazine pocketed in the last year 80.5 million US dollars. He suggested most of it to her album 25, which pushed her to the top of the best-selling music artists in 2015. The third place belongs to the music veteran Madonna, which with $76.5 million earnings are breathing heavily behind the collar of a much younger colleague. Still, the two combined didn't earn as much as Swift. In which place they landed Rihanna, Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez you will find out below.

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