If anyone knows money and the bottom lines of the 1%, it’s Forbes magazine, which makes their recently-published list of the highest-paid women in music particularly illuminating. The magazine looked at pre-tax income from June 2016 through to June 2017, and used data from Nielsen SoundScan, Pollstar, and the RIAA to form this year’s list, which sees Beyoncé dethroning Taylor Swift, who topped last year’s list.
Here’s the full top 10. It’s okay to be jealous…