Artists’ finances are generally a taboo subject that is difficult to specify since they do not return all that they generate with their records, their songs, their tours, their merchandising, etc. However, Forbes’ annual entertainment industry rankings usually give us a clue about the highest-paid entertainers of the year. A ranking that places Taylor Swift and Bad Bunny in the top positions in 2022.
Taylor Swift manages to sneak into the Top 10 highest-earning artists in the past 365 days, amassing a fortune that exceeds $92 million from the release of her album Midnights and also from ticket sales for his upcoming world tour: Eras Visit.
The American soloist is no stranger to this list, of which she has been a regular for 9 consecutive years and which she led in 2019. It should be remembered that the composer re-records the songs that were part of her first albums. to be able to recover the economic control that he lost after the sale of the catalog of the small brand where he was to his “sworn enemy” Scooter Braun.
And a position below Taylor Swift closing the Top 10 we find Bad Bunny. The reggaetonero has made profits this year that exceed 88 million dollars. Nothing out of the ordinary considering he’s been Spotify’s most played artist for the past year.
The Year of the Rabbit, as 2022 was popularly known, also included an extensive tour across America that netted him big bucks by filling every major stadium he walked on. Despite the fact that we saw him at the Grammy awards ceremony, the Puerto Rican has already warned that 2023 will be a year of rest and disconnection.
Who was the highest paid artist of 2022?
The big question you will surely ask yourself is who was then the highest paid artist of 2022? Well, the Forbes ranking was led last year by a surprising name: Genesis. The group which included Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel and Mike Rutherford achieved one of the biggest economic operations of the year with the sale of its entire catalog.
A circumstance that led them to enter the modest sum of 230 million dollars. Numbers that hardly any sales list or world tour can match. And in a similar sale we find Sting in second place since his catalog was sold for 210 million dollars.
The rest of the positions are filled by the film industry with James Cameron, Brad Pitt, Tyler Perry, Trey Parker, Matt Stone and James L. Brooks.