TOP 10 World's Highest-Paid Celebrities

The World's Highest-Paid Celebrities

 #1 Taylor Swift

EARNINGS

$185M

•          Swift's 2018 'Reputation' Stadium Tour is officially the highest-grossing tour in U.S. history, grossing $266.1 million.
    ·         In 2018 the singer left Big Machine Records, her musical home since starting out as a teenager, for Universal's Republic Records.
    ·         As part of the deal, Universal is required to share proceeds from the eventual sale of its $1 billion stake in Spotify with its musicians.
    ·         Her first single since the move, "ME!" debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and racked up a record-breaking 100 million Vevo views in 79 hours.
    ·         Swift has leveraged her fame to encourage political action, asking fans to support the Equality Act with her single, "You Need To Calm Down."

  STATS
  AGE	30
  SOURCE OF WEALTH	music
  RESIDENCE	Nashville, Tennessee
  CITIZENSHIP	United States
  MARITAL STATUS	Single
  EDUCATION	Diploma, High School

  
  #2 Kylie Jenner

EARNINGS

$170M

• At 21, celebrity-turned-makeup mogul Kylie Jenner became the youngest self-made billionaire ever.
• In November 2019, she agreed to sell 51% of her Kylie Cosmetics to beauty giant Coty Inc. for $600 million.
• The deal, which closed in January 2020, leaves Kylie in charge of creative efforts and marketing.
• She still owns 49% of the business, which she and her mother Kris Jenner grew through shrewd self-promotion and super low overhead costs.
• Jenner used $250,000 of her earnings from modeling gigs to pay an outside company to produce her first 15,000 lip kits.

STATS
AGE	22
SOURCE OF WEALTH	cosmetics
RESIDENCE	Hidden Hills, California
CITIZENSHIP	United States
MARITAL STATUS	Single
CHILDREN	1

#3 Kanye West

EARNINGS

$150M

• New information about Kanye West's deal with Adidas for sneaker brand Yeezy convinced Forbes to call the entrepreneur and musician a billionaire.
• He gets an annual royalty from Adidas, which makes Yeezy shoes. The Yeezy brand pulled in an estimated $1.3 billion in sales in 2019.
• Separately, West also has a Yeezy apparel line. He owns his brands outright.
• West's Sunday Service, an invitation-only confab mostly in Southern California, has reportedly drawn the likes of Katy Perry and Dave Chappelle.

STATS
AGE	42
SOURCE OF WEALTH	music, sneakers
RESIDENCE	Los Angeles, California
CITIZENSHIP	United States
MARITAL STATUS	Married
EDUCATION	Drop Out, Chicago State University

#4 Lionel Messi

EARNINGS

$127M

• Since his Barcelona debut in 2003, Messi has played 687 matches for his club, scored 603 goals, and won 33 club titles, including 10 La Liga titles.
• His current Barcelona contract is through 2020-21 and pays him over $80 million annually. He also has a lifelong deal with Adidas.
• He has been awarded FIFA's Player of the Year five times and won the European Golden Shoe for top scorer on the continent a record six times.
• In 2016, he was convicted of tax fraud in Spain for avoiding income tax between 2007 and 2009. His 21-month sentence was cut to a $250,000 fine.

STATS
AGE	32
SOURCE OF WEALTH	Soccer
RESIDENCE	Castelldefels, Spain
CITIZENSHIP	Argentina
MARITAL STATUS	Married

#5 Ed Sheeran

EARNINGS

$110M

• The Divide Tour, which Sheeran wraps this summer after more than two years on the road, has grossed over $600 million worldwide.
• In May, he announced 'No. 6 Collaborations Project,' a compilation album featuring artists including Justin Bieber, Cardi B and Bruno Mars.
• The record follows Sheeran's 2017 album 'Divide,' which earned the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2018.

STATS
AGE	29
SOURCE OF WEALTH	Music
RESIDENCE	London, United Kingdom
CITIZENSHIP	United Kingdom
MARITAL STATUS	Married

 #6 Cristiano Ronaldo

EARNINGS

$109M

• Ronaldo joined Juventus in 2018 after nine years with Real Madrid. He took a pay cut with his four-year deal worth $64 million annually.
• Within 24 hours of release, Juventus sold 520,000 Ronaldo jerseys worth over $60 million.
• He has won FIFA's Player of the Year five times and is the all-time leading goal scorer in the UEFA Champions League.
• The Portuguese star is the most followed athlete on social media with nearly 400 million total followers.
• In January, Ronaldo agreed to a $21 million fine for tax evasion between 2010 and 2014.

STATS
AGE	35
SOURCE OF WEALTH	Soccer
RESIDENCE	Turin, Italy
CITIZENSHIP	Portugal
MARITAL STATUS	Married

 

 #7 Neymar

EARNINGS

$105M

• Neymar is on a five-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain through June 2022 worth $350 million in salary.
• His transfer from Barcelona to PSG stands as the most expensive in the world at $263 million, which the French club paid in full ahead of his signing.
• The Brazilian is the second most popular athlete on social media with more than 200 million followers on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
• Neymar was found guilty of avoiding taxes between 2011 and 2013 and paid a $1.2 million fine in 2016.
• Neymar lost Brazil's national team captaincy after a hitting a fan in the stands after PSG's loss in the French Cup.

STATS
AGE	28
SOURCE OF WEALTH	Soccer
RESIDENCE	Sao Paulo, Brazil
CITIZENSHIP	Brazil
MARITAL STATUS	Single

 

 #8 The Eagles

EARNINGS

$100M

• The band's current lineup features Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit, with Vince Gill and Deacon Frey.
• Always a hit on the road, their recent An Evening With The Eagles Tour grossed more than $3.5 million per tour stop.
• The tour marked the first prolonged set of dates since the death of band co-founder Glenn Frey in 2016.

STATS
SOURCE OF WEALTH	Music
RESIDENCE	Los Angeles, California
CITIZENSHIP	United States

#9 Dr. Phil McGraw

EARNINGS

$95M

• A protégé of Oprah protege, Dr. Phil boasts one of the most-watched syndicated talk shows on television.
• McGraw earns an upfront fee from the gabfest, as well as a percentage of advertising revenue and cash from product placement.
• In addition to doling out advice on his show since 2002, he is an executive producer, putting his name on 'The Bull' and 'The Doctors.'
• Though he is not a practicing doctor, McGraw cofounded the app Doctors on Demand, worth $300 million.

STATS
AGE	69
SOURCE OF WEALTH	Television
RESIDENCE	Los Angeles, California
CITIZENSHIP	United States
MARITAL STATUS	Married
EDUCATION	Doctorate, North Texas State University

    #10 Canelo Alvarez

EARNINGS

$94M

• Streaming service DAZN committed $365 million in 2018 to lock up the next 11 fights of boxing's biggest pay-per-view star.
• Alvarez pocketed roughly $50 million combined for his first two fights on DAZN but should earn at least $35 million per fight in the future.
• Boxing fans are clamoring for a third showdown between Canelo and Gennady "GGG" Golovkin.
• Their first fight was declared a draw, and Alvarez narrowly won the second. Both fights generated more than one million PPV buys.
• The Canelo-GGG fights were the first U.S. boxing matches not involving Mayweather or Pacquiao to register more than one million buys since 2002.

STATS
AGE	29
SOURCE OF WEALTH	Boxing
RESIDENCE	San Diego, California
CITIZENSHIP	Mexico
MARITAL STATUS	Single

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