In the lead is the Boss with a staggering figure : in 2021 Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born in 1949) brought the beauty of 590 million dollars into his coffers. A mind-boggling figure that puts it at the top of the rankings drawn up by Rolling Stone, the bible of international music for 53 years, the magazine was in fact born on November 9, 1967 and since then you have never had rivals for authority and quality. So now the magazine reveals to the world who are the artists who have earned the most last year , a pandemic season and therefore of a few live shows that raise the prices of every musician.

It must immediately be said that in this Top 10 there is only room for Americans and that the ranking is with a male majority except for the last position occupied by Taylor Swift .

The singer, actress and composer from West Reading (a town of 4,000 inhabitants of Pennsylvania), has totaled collections of 80 million dollars . And again it must be emphasized that a large part of the proceeds must be attributed to the sale of the rights of the catalogs or to extra-musical activities as revealed by Forbes last spring, anticipating the data and pointing out this detail.

It is no coincidence that those musicians who have an important career behind them take advantage of this. Springsteen himself owes 500 million, of the 590, to the sale of his entire music catalog to the Sony Music Group. The same goes for the third place winner, the over 80-year-old Paul Simon (of the giants Simon & Garfunkel) who records 260 million.

Black music places two important representatives in second and fourth position: Jay-Z (with $ 470 million) and Kanye West with $ 250 million. Followed by Ryan Tedder (200 million), Red Hot Chili Peppers (145 million), Lindsey Buckingham (100 million), Motley Crue (95 million) and Blake Shelton with 83 million dollars.

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