The top 5 highest-paid women in music

It's that point of 12 months once more: Forbes has formally announced the best-incomes ladies in tune for 2016, and the results might just surprise you. Measured from June 2015 to June 2016, those fundamental hitters in song crowned the list way to international tours, endorsement offers, and — as a minimum for Adele — actual album income. Basically, those women recognise the way to hustle and are talented AF, so they may be extra than deserving in their coveted titles as top-earners.

Here's who made the reduce. To find out who made the pinnacle ten, or for more records about how the top five earned their coveted spots, you could head over to Forbes proper here.

5. Beyoncé — $fifty four Million*

*As Forbes points out, you can count on her to be lots better on the list subsequent 12 months way to Lemonade and The Formation World Tour.

four. Rihanna — $75 Million

three. Madonna — $seventy six.5 Million

2. Adele — $eighty.5 Million

1. Taylor Swift — $one hundred seventy Million

From Cosmopolitan.Com