Billboard’s Money Makers ranking of the top earners in music includes Jay Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem. Jay Z is the highest on the list, coming in at #16.
“Jay Z, 44, sparked both excitement and controversy when he aligned with Samsung to release Magna Carta … Holy Grail,” Billboard says of Jay. “That unprecedented promotion didn’t hurt sales of the album. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1, selling 528,000 copies out of the gate and giving the rapper his best sales week since 2006’s Kingdom Come. Racking up robust digital song (7.3 million) and digital album sales (861,000), Jay Z also hit the road twice: first with Justin Timberlake, then as a headliner on his own Magna Carter World Tour. The former, which ranked 15th on Billboard’s top 25 tours of 2013, grossed $69.8 million. Jay Z’s 2013 U.S. concert take stands at $10.8 million.”
Kanye West is the second highest-ranking rapper on the list at #26, with 2013 earning of $11,574,833.92. Lil Wayne follows West at #37 with $8,788,416.66. Eminem is the final rapper on the list at #39. His reported 2013 earnings for 2013 are $8,524,782.99, according to Billboard.
Billboard explains that it worked with other entities in order to compile this list. “The data used to compile Money Makers was supplied by Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen BDS and Billboard Boxscore,” Billboard says. “Artists are ranked by U.S. earnings, calculated from touring, recorded music sales, publishing royalties and revenue from digital music and video streaming. Due to a lack of data, revenue from sponsorship, merchandising and synchronization isn’t included. For album and track sales, Billboard assumed a royalty rate of 20 percent of retail, minus producers’ fees. Billboard treated all streaming revenue as derived from licensing deals and split that to calculate the artist’s take. Billboard applied statutory mechanical rates for album and track sales and Copyright Royalty Board-determined rates or approved formulas for streaming. For labels’ direct deals with interactive services, Billboard used a blended rate of $0.00525 for audio and $0.005 for video streams. Billboard subtracted a manager’s fee of 10 percent. For box office, each artist was credited with 34 percent of the gross, typically what’s left after the promoter and manager’s cuts and other costs are subtracted.”
Jay Z was #2 in Forbes’ Cash Kings list for 2013, following Diddy. Also in 2013, Jay Z and Beyonce combined to make more money than any other couple in the entertainment industry with an estimated $95 million in earnings, according to Forbes.com.
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where in the hell is 50 cent
why would he be on there he didnt have a tour or an album, he made a measly 7 million last year but still more than Game and Rick Ross.
50 Cent is trying to revive his dead rap carrer and relese an album like Ross and Game but his music isnt wanted.
50 is making his money from business ventures. Most these rappers make more from endorsements and other bull shit than they do from music.
A link to the actual billboard article might be nice to we could check out the full list for ourselves…
How about your fat lazy self just copy paste.
copy and paste from what though?
lmao at that name fat lazy person hater
Justin Bieber owned JayZ 🙂
bieber wont be around 10, let alone 20 years from now
1. Taylor Swift – 39 million
2. Kenny Chesney – 32 million
3. Justin Timberlake – 34 million
4. Bon Jovi – 29 million
5. The Rolling Stones – 26 million
6. Beyonce – 24 million
7. Maroon 5 – 22 million
8. Luke Bryan – 22 million
9. P!NK – 20 million
10. Fleetwood Mac – 19 million
11. Justin Bieber – 18 million
12. Bruno Mars – 18 million
13. One Direction – 18 million
14. Jason Aldean – 17 million
15. George Strait – 16 million
16. Jay-Z – 15 million *****
17. Michael Buble – 14 million
18. Mumford and Sons – 14 million
19. Dave Matthews Bans – 13 million
20 . Rihanna – 13 million
21. Paul McCartney – 13 million
22. The Eagles – 13 million
23. Celine Dion – 12 million
24. Trans-Siberian Orchestra – 12 million
25. Phish – 12 million
26. Kanye West – 11 million *****
27. Blake Shelton – 10 million
28. John Mayer – 10 million
29. New Kids On The Block – 9 million
30. Zac Brown Band – 9 million
31. Imagine Dragons – 9 million
32. Jimmy Buffet – 9 million
33. Elton John – 9 million
34. Rascal Flatts – 9 million
35. Rush – 9 million
36. Miranda Lambert – 8 million
37. Lil Wayne – 8 million *****
38. Tim McGraw – 8 million
39. Eminem – 8 million *****
40. Carrie Underwood – 8 million
Beyonce making more than all these rap niggas. Jay-Z made a wise choice in wifing her.
Taylor swift singing n crying bout 12 year old girl problems bitch is 6’3 in her mid twenties lookin like 2 missed meals from death. whatever get ur money ya lanky skank
JayZ and Beyonce are history’s greatest entertainment power couple, Royalty.
Def Jam is eating good with Rihanna and Kanye and LiL Wayne makes millions in his sleep.
“Taylor swift singing n crying bout 12 year old girl problems”
you actually listen to the records? i didnt but i thought she was singing about regular girl and relationship problems in general
” LiL Wayne makes millions in his sleep.”
good thing because he owes 12 million in back taxes!
“you actually listen to the records? i didnt but i thought she was singing about regular girl and relationship problems in general”
It’s just a bunch of whiny break-up songs bashing her exes.
agreed but why is that considered “12 year old girl problems”
if those songs didnt make her MILLIONS she wouldn’t keep doin it