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Forbes have released their listings for the highest paid musicians of 2015 with Katy Perry sitting at the tippity top with a modest earning of $135 million in her net worth. Other names in the top 10 include One Direction, Garth Brooks, The Eagles, Calvin Harris, Diddy and Taylor Swift.
Collectively, these musicians could solve world hunger and have enough cash to spare to probably still get the same amount of attention for Forbes. It's worth noting that these figures represent earnings not net worth - if you want to know the technicals, we don't know, read a book.
Katy Perry has managed to jump 22 positions since last year with her 17 month 'Prismatic World Tour' - imagine trying to exchange 130 million of foreign currency at Thomas Cook, it just isn't going to happen.
In a turn out for the books, Dr Dre dropped has slipped from the number one slot in 2014 to a disgraceful 28 this year. Despite the release of a record a decade in the making and a commercially smashing blockbuster, art money isn't worth as much as headphone money. Dre sold his Beats brand to Apple for an even $3 billion last year.
There's probably a lot to analyse here and not enough time to do it. So, check out the highest paid of musicians below. The asterisks correspond to any tied ranking:
1 Katy Perry $135m
2 One Direction $130m
3 Garth Brooks $90m
4 Taylor Swift $80m
5 The Eagles $73.5m
6 Calvin Harris $66m
7 Justin Timberlake $63.5m
8 Diddy $60m
9 Fleetwood Mac $59.5m
10 Lady Gaga $59m
11 The Rolling Stones $57.5m
12 Ed Sheeran $57m
13 Jay Z $56m
14 Beyoncé $54.5m
15 Elton John $53.5m
16 Toby Keith $53m
17 Paul McCartney $51.5m
18 Michael Buble $45.5m
19 Jason Aldean $43.5m
20 Luke Bryan $42.5m
21 Kenny Chesney $42m
22 Bruno Mars $40m
23 Drake $39.5m
24* Foo Fighters $38m
24* Tim McGraw $38m
25 David Guetta $37m
26 Florida Georgia Line $36.5m
27* Jimmy Buffett $36m
27* Tiesto $36m
28* Maroon 5 $33m
28* Dr. Dre $33m
We recently had an in-depth look into the collective earnings of pop's favourite power-couple, Calvin Harris and Taylor Swift. We examined the extent to which we could stretch their collective bank accounts into the relams of moon real estate, scientology and the crooked lottery system.
