{"id":772123,"date":"2019-12-27T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T08:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/"},"modified":"2019-12-27T08:30:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T08:30:28","slug":"meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the richest musicians of the decade"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/p>\n
\n
\nBeyonce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Though the art of making, buying and releasing music has changed dramatically over the past decade, the money-making capabilities of certain artists has not.<\/p>\n
Yes, artists may have had to diversify their revenue streams, as people have stopped flocking to the local Woolworths or HMV to buy CDs, but you can argue that technology has brought huge investment opportunities or that the focus has shifted to huge, sell-out stadium world tours. Anyone who has waited in an hour-long Ticketmaster queue for Beyonc\u00e9 tickets will know that the demand is high, and tickets are as expensive as ever.<\/p>\n
As 2019 draws to a close, Forbes has amalgamated its annual musicians rich lists to reveal just who has made the most millions throughout the decade, from 2010 \u2013 2020. The magazine uses touring data, music consumption numbers, interviews agents and managers to assess the estimated wealth of living musicians.<\/p>\n
Click through for a list of surprising and not-so-surprising revelations as to which musicians have made the big bucks this decade, in ascending order.<\/p>\n
10. Lady Gaga<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
The A Star Is Born actress has amassed $500 million (\u00a3386m) thanks to the five albums she released throughout the decade (Born This Way, Artpop, Cheek to Cheek, Joanne and the A Star Is Born album) and live shows, including her Las Vegas residency.<\/p>\n
9. Katy Perry<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
The California Girl singer has earned $530 million (\u00a3410m) over the past 10 years, largely thanks to multiple huge world tours \u2013 California Dreams, Prismatic and Witness.<\/p>\n
8. Sir Paul McCartney<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
Despite The Beatles breaking up in 1969, the 77-year-old has earned $535 million (\u00a3413m) between 2010 and 2012 thanks to his ongoing solo career, which has involved world tours, a collaboration with Kanye West and Rihanna and a number one album with Egypt Station in 2018.<\/p>\n
7. Jay-Z<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
The rapper, producer and entrepreneur has earned $560 million (\u00a3433 m) over the past ten years, according to Forbes. His accumulation of wealth has mainly come from the many companies he\u2019s built and invested in (champagne and cognac brands, Tidal, art collections and more) but he\u2019s also earned a tidy sum of money from two tours and an album with Beyonc\u00e9. Considering all this, it\u2019s no surprise that Forbes titled him the first billionaire rapper earlier this year.<\/p>\n
6. Sir Elton John<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
The legendary musician has earned $565 million (\u00a3436m) largely through years of stadium concerts and his Las Vegas residency.<\/p>\n
5. Diddy<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
The rapper and businessman \u2013 who just celebrated his 50th birthday with a star-studded party \u2013 has amassed $605 million ($467m) in this last 10 year period. Forbes attributes his impressive earnings largely to his business deals, like with C\u00eeroc vodka.<\/p>\n
4. U2<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
The Irish rock band, fronted by Bono, have earned a tidy $675 million (\u00a3521m) thanks to their tours. Their 2011 360 tour grossed the most amount of money ever, according to the money magazine.<\/p>\n
3. Beyonc\u00e9<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
The ELLE cover star earned an estimated total of $685 million (\u00a3529m) over the past decade, largely in part to her successful decade as a solo artist. Over the past 10 years, Beyonc\u00e9 has released five albums \u2013 4, Beyonc\u00e9, Lemonade, Everything Is Love with husband Jay-Z and to cap of the year The Gift, a soundtrack from The Lion King, and toured extensively.<\/p>\n
2. Taylor Swift<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
The pop singer is ranked the second-highest earning musician of the decade \u2013 and the highest earning female musician of the decade \u2013 due to her multiple stadium-packed tours and albums \u2013 the latest of which, Lover, was released this year and no doubt added to the impressive bank balance of $825 million (\u00a3637m).<\/p>\n
1. Dr Dre<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
The richest musician, in terms of earnings throughout the decade, is rapper, producer, former NWA member and businessman Dr Dre. The 54-year-old does not top the list for albums, tours or songs but because he co-founded Beats headphones, which was famously bought by Apple for $3 billion in 2014 \u2013 earning him $950 million (\u00a3734m) over the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Beyonce Though the art of making, buying and releasing music has changed dramatically over the past decade, the money-making capabilities of certain artists has not. Yes, artists may have had to diversify their revenue streams, as people have stopped flocking to the local Woolworths or HMV to buy CDs, but you can argue that technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"\n
Meet the richest musicians of the decade - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Meet the richest musicians of the decade - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Beyonce Though the art of making, buying and releasing music has changed dramatically over the past decade, the money-making capabilities of certain artists has not. Yes, artists may have had to diversify their revenue streams, as people have stopped flocking to the local Woolworths or HMV to buy CDs, but you can argue that technology […]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"headline\":\"Meet the richest musicians of the decade\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-27T08:30:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":632,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Entertainment\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/\",\"name\":\"Meet the richest musicians of the decade - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-12-27T08:30:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/27\\\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/07\\\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":651},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Meet the richest musicians of the decade - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Meet the richest musicians of the decade - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"Beyonce Though the art of making, buying and releasing music has changed dramatically over the past decade, the money-making capabilities of certain artists has not. Yes, artists may have had to diversify their revenue streams, as people have stopped flocking to the local Woolworths or HMV to buy CDs, but you can argue that technology […]","twitter_image":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/"},"author":{"name":"Ghana News","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036"},"headline":"Meet the richest musicians of the decade","datePublished":"2019-12-27T08:30:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/"},"wordCount":632,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg","articleSection":["Entertainment"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/","name":"Meet the richest musicians of the decade - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg","datePublished":"2019-12-27T08:30:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/meet-the-richest-musicians-of-the-decade\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter.jpg","width":1024,"height":651},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/#\/schema\/person\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Beyonce-Creator-Kevin-Winter-Kevin-Winter-696x442.jpg\" "\\"2018")
![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/30606218.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/98336788.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/26296048.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/94738277.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/81718243.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/43077198.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/59099344.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/52347016.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/63278920.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/70404606.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n