{"id":35373,"date":"2021-03-22T14:32:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/?p=35373"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T19:42:43","slug":"and-the-highest-earning-entertainer-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/and-the-highest-earning-entertainer-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Highest Earning Entertainer Is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to Forbes<\/em> magazine, the highest earning entertainer in the world today is Sean P. Diddy<\/em>. He was able to generate earnings of over $130 <\/em>million from June 1, 2016, to June 1, 2017. <\/em>Currently, Sean P. Diddy <\/em>boasts a net worth of a staggering $830 <\/em>million, making him the highest earning and richest music artist in the hip-hop genre. The entertainment mogul makes most of his money from his fashion house, Sean John<\/em>. The fashion house brings in revenue of over half a billion dollars per year. Although he is no longer the majority shareholder of the company after selling a portion of his shares to the company, Global Brands Group<\/em>, Sean<\/em> still holds 20% stake in the company. In addition to that, he also enjoys a profitable partnership with the vodka company, Diageo Ciroc<\/em>. Sean was also able to add to his income from his Bad Boy Family Reunion<\/em> tour.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0After Combs comes Beyonc\u00e9<\/em>. The singer was able to accumulate around $105<\/em> million largely owing to the success of her album, Lemonade<\/em>, and the Formation World Tour<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0The writer, JK Rowling<\/em>, took third place with earnings of $95<\/em> million. To this day, she makes most of her money through royalties earned from her largely successful Harry Potter<\/em> series. The fourth place was occupied by the singer, rapper, Drake<\/em>. He was able to accumulate most of his $94 <\/em>million earnings by touring non-stop on his Boy Meets World Tour<\/em>. The soccer athlete, Cristiano Ronaldo<\/em>, took the fifth spot with earnings amounting to $93<\/em> million. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0The Weeknd <\/em>amassed earnings of $92<\/em> million, making him the sixth highest earning entertainer in the world today. He was able to generate such a monstrous amount thanks to a surge in streaming revenues. In the past two years, he has generated close to 5.5 billion<\/em> streams!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0The TV and radio personality, Howard Stern<\/em>, nailed the seventh spot with earnings of $90 <\/em>million while the eight spot was taken by the band, Coldplay, with earnings amounting to $88 <\/em>million. The band made their money from their Head Full of Dreams Tour<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0The author, James Patterson<\/em>, also surprisingly made his way on the list, taking the ninth spot with earnings close to $87 million<\/em>. In the previous year, he sold more than 9.5 million<\/em> copies of his books. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0The tenth spot was occupied by the basketball player, Lebron James<\/em>. He earned $86 million<\/em> in the previous year with only $31 million<\/em> of his total earnings coming from his salary. The man generated the rest of his earnings from lucrative sponsorship deals. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Forbes magazine, the highest earning entertainer in the world today is Sean P. Diddy. He was able to generate earnings of over $130 million from June 1, 2016, to June 1, 2017. Currently, Sean P. Diddy boasts a net worth of a staggering $830 million, making him the highest earning and richest music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[416],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35687,"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35373\/revisions\/35687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lintmit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}