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Originally posted by Giancor
Shakira doesn't report not even 10% of her tour grossing to bilboard etc....she lives out of the states and keeps her companies private, her accounts are in london and switzerland. Plus their is no way for forbes to know.
She also has a tour production company that while artist such as katy perry and rihanna sweat.
Don't forget her successful world tours, perfumes, endorsements, The Voice and songwriting royalties. Her Live Nation deal alone is worth more than 250 million. People don't realize how huge she is. She's been around for 20+ years.
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I believe this to some extent, even if I question the 750M figure. It always seems to be the artists that are super big in the US that get the Forbes treatment, but there are touring acts (U2, ACDC, Take That) that are huge WW and rake in goo gobs of money, but they aren't reported on Forbes "powerful/celeb" lists. And I still don't know how touring money was factored into this year's list. Forbes supposedly doesn't use net gross, but the artists' earnings didn't reflect their gross tour earnings during the Forbes tracking period.