Metallica Made Top10 In Forbes’ Highest Grossing Artists Of 2019! The Rest Of The List Sucks.
Who says rock is dead? This is great to see! Forbes magazine just released their Top highest-earning artists of 2019 and Metallica landed at #10!
Forbes reported Metallica made $68.5 million in 2019 – tour & music income as well as other business endeavours are taken into consideration when making the list.
Here’s the Top 20 of Forbes’ list:
- Taylor Swift – $185 million
- Kanye West – $150 million
- Ed Sheeran – $110 million
- The Eagles – $100 million
- Elton John – $84 million
- Jay Z – $81 million
- Beyoncé – $81 million
- Drake – $75 million
- Diddy – $7 million
- Metallica – $68.5 million
- Rihanna – $62 million
- Travis Scott – $58 million
- Justin Timberlake – $57.5 million (tie)
- Katy Perry – $57.5 million (tie)
- Pink – $57 million (tie)
- BTS – $57 million (tie)
- Billy Joel – $52 million
- Bruno Mars – $51 million
- Jimmy Buffett – $50 million (tie)
- Eminem – $50 million (tie)
Metallica toured a bunch in 2019 – and keep in mind, they made the Top 10 despite not having released a studio album since 2016! Impressive.
Are you surprised Taylor Swift is atop the throne?
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