Mary Tops Forbes.com’s List of Top 20 ‘Cash Queens’
NEW YORK Madonna is the fertile woman in euphony.
The 49-year-old entertainer leads Forbes.com’s list of the top 20 “Cash Queens of Music,” realising USD 72 000 000 betwixt June 2006 and June 2007.
The pop star’s “Confessions” world tour forced in USD 260 000 000, Forbes expressed. She likewise made money from record album sales, her fashion line with H&M and a trade with NBC to air her concert public presentation at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Forbes.com articulated it piled up the listing by studying concert grosses, selling revenue, record album sales and former revenue from habiliment lines, scent deals and blurbs.
Barbra Streisand is No. 2 with USD 60 000 000, thanks to her rejoinder tour of North America and Europe.
Celine Dion ranks third with USD 45 000 000, mostly from her successful “A New Day” show in Las Vegas, that she mantled up in December after a five-year conflict at Caesars Palace.
Shakira is fourthed with USD 38 000 000, postdated by Beyonce (USD 27 000 000), Gwen Stefani (USD 26 000 000), Christina Aguilera (USD 20 000 000), Religious belief Hill (USD 19 000 000), the Dixie Chicks (USD 18 000 000) and Mariah Carey (USD 13 000 000).
Hilary Duff, Avril Lavigne and Martina McBride each depositted USD 12 000 000.
Britney Spears graded 14th on the listing, earning USD 8 000 000 from euphony royalties and gross revenue of her scents with Elizabeth Arden.
Spears is postdated by Carrie Underwood and Nelly Furtado (USD 7 000 000 each); Fergie, Jennifer Lopez and Sheryl Crow (USD 6 000 000 each); and Norah Jones (USD 5.5 000 000).