Kendall Jenner, for example: it’s like a billion little stars are spelling out her name. With $1.6 billion,Pop star Taylor Swift is now the richest active female musician.
Untouchable
Forbes magazine wrote that “Untouchable” singer has surpassed Rihanna who has a net worth of $1.4 billion. The reason is that Swift’s unstoppable Eras Tour, today worth an estimated $600 million in royalties and touring, her music catalog, overall worth north of $600 million, and real estate, overall worth an estimated $125 million, also play a role.
The businesswoman who wore jewelry became the first billionaire purely out of song writing and singing last year.
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It’s been only in the last year though that Swift managed to bolster her financial portfolio even more by taking her three-hour promotional show to 21 cities across Asia, Australia and Europe. All stops received an economic stimulus. Swift’s four night stay in Tokyo brought about an estimated 228 Million dollars into the country. During her stay in Sydney, Australia, Swift grossed an approximate $43.3 just for merchandise sales. Neighbors who wanted the singer to perform in their country once complained Singapore got the Eras Tour’s golden ticket.
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Swift is still on the two-year grand opus and she has only 18 performances to go. The show is back in Miami on October 18 and the final episode is aired on December 8 in Vancouver, Canada.
Forbes list the 34-year-old fifth in terms of Power Women with Ursula von der Leyen, Christine Lagarde, Kamala Harris, and Giorgia Meloni ahead of her. Taylor Swift stands together with Spanx founder Sara Blakely at 24 on America’s Self-Made Women. This places her at 25 on yet another ranking, this one being the Highest-Paid Entertainers list (and with # 1 being Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson).
In any case, she is 2,545rd on the list of the billionaires.
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This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Taylor Swift outranks other female pop celebrity to grab the title of the richest musician.
