Forbes presented the annual ranking of the 100 most highly paid stars in the world. Together they earned $6.1 billion — $200 million less than last year. Next year, most likely, will not be better.
one Hundred of the highest paid stars in the world for a year in the aggregate earned $6.1 billion before taxes and fees to agents, managers or lawyers — $200 million less than last year. The income of the participants rating fell for the first time in 2016. But then the drop in the total income of celebrities was due to “high base” in 2015 when the Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao earned nearly half a billion dollars for the most expensive fight in Boxing history.
But even though the pandemic and protests in the United States after the murder of George Floyd, show some of the stars continues.
the First two lines of the rating took Kylie Jenner and Kanye West, who for the year earned $590 million and $170 million respectively. The main source of income Kanye West — that’s the deal with sports giant Adidas, which produces and sells its sneakers brand Yeezy. Kylie Jenner, in turn, earned a large portion of the sale of 51% of its brand Kylie Cosmetics cosmetics company Coty in January. Despite the fact that Kylie Jenner years fanned the scale of their business, the money she received after the transaction not was another deception. The sale of its stake in Cosmetics Kylie became one of the most profitable trades ever prisoners celebrities.
With more than two thirds of this amount celebrities have paid Netflix. Among the stars who received payments from streaming giants, joined Ryan Reynolds (18th place, $71.5 million), Billy Iles (43-e a place, $53 million) and Jerry Seinfeld (46-e a place, $51 million).
Live concerts have ensured a number of prominent musicians of the highest income for your entire career. In the two years since the beginning of the tour Divide singer ed Sheeran, for example, earned $776 million, and broke the historical record rock band U2 on sales of tickets for concerts within the same tour. In total, concerts Sheeran during this time was visited by 8.9 million people. However, next year the income of musicians associated with the concert tours is likely greatly reduced, as many stars have canceled all concerts due pandemic. One of them went as Taylor swift (25-e a place, $63.5 million) and Paul McCartney (93-e a place, $37 million).
Roger Federer became the first tennis player who managed to become the highest paid athlete in the ranking (3rd place, $106.3 million).
Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo (4th place, $105 million), in turn, became the first athlete performing in a team sport, which managed to earn $1 billion in his professional career. The Japanese player, Naomi Osaka, ranked 90th place in the ranking of the 100 most vysokotlake��developed stars in the world and is also postamerican, earning $37 million — more than any other athlete in history.
In the ranking for the first time in history, there are host of the podcast. In February, bill Simmons (13th place, $82.5 million) sold his company, The Ringer streaming giant Spotify for $206 million Another newcomer to the ranking was the composer Lin-Manuel Miranda (62-e a place, $45.5 million).
Lin-Manuel Miranda was one of many who publicly expressed his point of view, after the murder of George Floyd. “We must defend the rights of our fellow citizens by word and deed,” said the composer. He is among the celebrities advocating for the beginning of structural reforms in the United States. Lin-Manuel Miranda became one of the 12 participants of the rating, invest in the Foundation’s Cultural Leadership Fund, created by Andreessen Horowitz. The purpose of this Fund, the extension of investment opportunities and assistance to African Americans in applying for a job in a technology company.
the rating shows the amount before taxes and fees to agents, managers or lawyers. The assessment of the income of celebrities based on the data of Nielsen Music/MRC Data, Pollstar, IMDB, BookScan NPD and ComScore. When preparing the ranking, Forbes also spoke with industry experts and with many stars.
Zack O’malley Greenberg, Rob Lafranco.
