FORBES: Taylor to earn $100M this year, joins Madonna + Bey
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Tonight she played at LSU stadium to 100,000 people. Later in the summer, she’ll play back-to-back nights at NFL stadiums like Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field and Chicago’s Soldier Field.
Those are venues Beyonce played with Jay Z last summer–for one night only, not back to back gigs !during a year in which she earned $115 million, second only to Dr. Dre’s record $620 million. In the past three years, Madonna is the only other solo act who has topped $100 million in a single year.
With her 1989 Tour routed through some of the largest stadiums in the world throughout the next six months, Swift seems to have nearly outgrown the arenas most often frequented by solo pop acts and has entered the rarefied financial air historically inhabited by the likes of U2 and the Rolling Stones.
Given that sort of trajectory, it seems quite likely that the aforementioned club of $100 million annual earners will soon have a new member.