For Taylor Swift, a huge cash advance
Her $170 million year puts her at the top of the celebrity-pay list
It’s all good for Taylor Swift — $170 million worth of good.
Intent on her international tour of love with her latest beau, British actor Tom Hiddleston, Swift may have missed Forbes magazine’s annual list Monday of the top 100 highest-paid celebrities, in which she is the top earner.
Swift’s bank account is now fattened with a record $170 million from June 2015 to June 2016.
With those earnings, it’s nothing but the best for “Hiddleswift” as they canoodle around the world in a private plane.
They set down on Australia’s Gold Coast on Friday, believed to be en route to the Queensland set for Thor: Ragnarok, which will feature the return of Hiddleston as Loki.
In this year’s paycheck competition, Swift beat out several one-name entertainers, including Adele at No. 9 ($80.5 million); Madonna at No. 12 ($76.5 million); and Rihanna at No. 13 ($75 million); as well as Katy Perry at No. 63 ($41 million).
The latter pop star has gone back and forth with Swift in earnings and feuding. Last year, Perry took in more income ($135 million) than Swift ($80 million), according to the magazine’s annual list of top female earners.
This year, Swift earned even more than Perry did last year.
Perry reached the top last year on the strength of a world tour, a slew of hits and lucrative deals for product endorsements. This year, while Perry campaigned for Hillary Clinton, Swift smashed records with her worldwide 1989 tour in 2015 (to support her record of the same name).
Forbes reported Swift rolled over the Rolling Stones’ North American touring record, grossing $200 million en route to quarter of a billion dollars total. She also padded her accounts by promoting brands including Diet Coke, Keds and Apple.
And by the way, Swift’s ex-boyfriend, DJ Calvin Harris, was No. 21 on the list with $63 million. If Swift and Harris had stayed together, they would have been the top-earning Celebrity 100 couple, more than doubling Beyoncé and Jay Z’s $107.5 million, Forbes said.
The Top 100 list mixes male and female earners. The other nine in the Top 10: beloved boy band One Direction at No. 2 with $110 million; author James Patterson at No. 3 with $93 million; Dr. Phil McGraw at No. 4 with $88 million; Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo at No. 5 with $88 million; actor/comedian Kevin Hart at No. 6 with $87.5 million; self-proclaimed “king of media” Howard Stern at No. 7 with $85 million; Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi at No. 8 with $81.5 million; Adele at No. 9; and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh at No. 10 $79 million.
Kim Kardashian is featured on the magazine’s cover, but she’s only No. 42 on the list with $51 million. Forbes says much of her paycheck this year came from her mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.
But Swift could garner even more dough soon: The game’s maker, Glu Mobile, is scheduled to release an app starring Swift later this year.