Taylor Swift Is Forbes’ 2019’s Highest Paid Entertainer

She may not be everyone’s cup of tea,but Taylor Swift is stacking ’em up. Amidst her never-ending controversies,her achievements are relentless.  Forbes has named Taylor Swift as the highest paid entertainer.

Kylie Jenner may be the richest in Hollywood,but not even her could a candle to Taylor Swift when it comes to those annual earnings. Her money-minting tours being her biggest avenues of fortune,her last tour raked in $ 266.1 million in just the US only. Her last tour,The Reputation Tour,raked in $189 million pretax. This is the second time Swift is atop the Forbes list of Highest Paid Entertainers,having topped it in 2016 after her best-selling 1989 Tour. Swift is in close proximation followed by two members of the larger Kardashian clan,Kylie Jenner and Kanye West. This year’s list also saw soccer stars like Lionel Messi,Christiano Ronaldo and Neymar make it to the top ten.Forbes compiled this year’s list by estmating pre-tax earnings from June 2018 to June 2019.

Taylor’s upcoming album Lover drops August 23,and there could not have been a better start to this new era.