Rihanna keeps her title as the richest woman in music with a whopping net worth of $1.4 billion. Coming in second is Taylor Swift, third is Madonna, and fourth is Beyoncé.
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Rihanna Retains Title As Richest Woman In Music With $1.4B In Net Worth; Taylor Swift, Madonna, And Beyoncé Follow
Now Forbes recently dropped 2023’s ‘America’s Richest Self-Made Women List,’ and Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Madonna and Beyoncé are dominating the list as the richest women in music; however Rih Rih is leading the pack of female music titans.
Despite landing at No. 20 on the list as a whole, Rih came in at the No. 1 spot of richest female musicians with most of her earnings stemming from music, and coupled with her cosmetic and fashion lines.
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Aside from her monstrous hits, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty, which she co-owns with France’s LVMH, doubled its revenue in 2022, while Savage x Fenty earned a whopping $1 billion valuation. The publication gave Rih a “self-made score” of 10.
As for Taylor, who became the second richest woman in music, she landed at No. 34 on the list overall, with a “self-made score” of 8. Per Forbes, Taylor’s net worth is estimated at $740 million and a bulk of that figure stems from her record-breaking music sales and tour tickets.
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In 2022, she became the first artist in Billboard history to simultaneously hold the top 10 spots of the Billboard Hot 100 list. Then in November, Taylor’s fans, the Swifties, crashed Ticketmaster due to an overwhelming demand to nab tickets for her current ‘Eras‘ Tour.
The incident ended up prompting Congress to debate the company’s concert sales policies.
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Coming in third as richest female musician is Madonna, who landed at No. 45 on the list overall with with $580 million. And the fourth richest woman in music is Beyoncé, who landed at No. 48 overall on Forbes‘ list, with $540 million in net worth.
Currently, Bey’s on her ‘Renaissance‘ World Tour, but prior to kicking off the European leg, she that she would be collaborating with Balmain upon dropping her ‘Renaissance’ album, which topped Billboard‘s 200 album chart.
Other women who made the list include: Oprah (No. 13), Kim Kardashian (No. 21), Kylie Jenner (No. 38), Madonna (No. 45), Céline Dion (No. 56), Dolly Parton (No. 59), Reese Witherspoon (No. 59), Barbra Streisand (No. 61), Serena Williams (No. 89) and Shonda Rhimes (No. 96).
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