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Below is the list of Forbes’ World’s top ten best entertainers:
1. Genesis ($230 M)
In September, the band topped 2022 with a $300 million music rights sale to Concord Music Group. The agreement included the group’s publishing rights and a selection of recorded music income streams, as well as solo income streams from Phil Collins, including the hit song ‘In The Air Tonight’, and bandmates Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. Their income was supplemented by touring and royalties from recorded music.
2. Sting ($ 210 M)
Last year in February, Sting who rose to fame for hits such as ‘Every Breath You Take’ and ‘Roxanne’, made $300 million before fees by selling his entire musical output, both solo and with The Police, to Universal Music Group. An experienced industry attorney of the work of the British singer remarked: “It’s a good catalogue. I’d like to own it.”
3. Tyler Perry ($175 M)
Tyler Perry, a famous writer, director and actor had a prosperous 2022 due to several revenue streams from movies, his BET TV series, and the sizable production backlot he outright controls in Atlanta. Tyler Perry, the only billionaire on the list with an estimated $1 billion wealth, has been listed on the Forbes’ top ten highest-paid celebrities for two consecutive years.
4. Trey Parker & Matt Stone ($160 M)
The duo behind the TV animated program ‘South Park’, enjoyed yet another successful year thanks to sales of their musical parody of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Book of Mormon, and their long-standing HBO Max agreement. A $935 million guarantee over six years is part of their agreement with Paramount for 2021, which accounts for the majority of it.
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5. James L. Brooks & Matt Groening ($105 M)
After Disney’s earlier $52 billion purchase of Fox, The Simpsons, America’s favourite yellow cartoon family, moved all 30 seasons from FX to Disney+ in an April 2019 streaming agreement.
According to people familiar with the transaction, series co-creators Brooks and Groening made a previously unknown $105 million annually after fees.
6. Brad Pitt ($100 M)
The actor earned an estimated $113 million after fees from Pitt’s majority sale of his Plan B producing firm in December. Hollywood was talking about the agreement as well. One lawyer asserts, “It’s obviously become a brand,” noting that Plan B, in addition to directing Martin Scorsese’s The Departed and producing Oscar winners Moonlight and 12 Years a Slave, undoubtedly owns back ends and has a development pipeline that would raise its value. Others were not bought. A second lawyer responds, “It doesn’t truly have assets,” pointing out that the business only generates projects rather than owning them. Through his appearances in Bullet Train, Babylon, and The Lost City, Pitt made an additional $30 million, according to estimates.
7. Rolling Stones ($98 M)
The OG British rockers pocketed over $8.5 million per night on a fifteen city tour across Europe last summer, according to concert tracker Pollstar.
8. James Cameron ($95 M)
The success of the movie, Avatar: The Way of Water made James Cameron the director of three of the highest-grossing movies of all time, alongside the first Avatar (2009) and Titanic (1997). His second outing to Pandora made him at least $95 million, according to industry insiders, in a deal that’s said to be back-end-heavy with bonuses for crossing certain box office thresholds.
9. Taylor Swift ($92 M)
Swift’s profits come from a variety of sources, including physical album sales, streaming on services like Spotify, digital downloads, licencing, and sync. The fact that her Midnights tour in November crashed Ticketmaster with uncontrollable demand implies an even greater 2023 for her, as she’ll be travelling for fifty two nights across the United States with a potential nine-figure payment as a result.
10. Bad Bunny ($88 M)
The Puerto Rican rapper charmed millions of people worldwide as he flew on a palm tree during a tour, starred alongside Brad Pitt in Bullet Train, and challenged machismo with genderfluid fashion. He is best known for fusing reggaeton, a hybrid of Caribbean reggae and mainland rap, with Latin trap, a hip-hop subgenre with roots in the southern U.S. El ltimo Tour del Mundo, which was played in arenas, and The World’s Hottest Tour, which was his debut performance in the largest stadiums conceivable, accounted for the majority of his earnings. The cherry on top were endorsement deals with brands like Corona, Cheetos, and Adidas.
