June 19, 2013

Dr. Dre is world's highest paid musician

BY: KATY DELUCA NOVEMBER 29, 2012 | 2:33 PM
Leave a comment

$110 million: How much money rapper Dr. Dre made in 2012, making him the world's highest paid musician, according to Forbes. Dre released a new album in 2012, "Detox," but he still makes money off his older albums as well as his successful line of headphones. Here's the rest of the top 10:

2: $88 million: Roger Waters

3: $80 million: Elton John

4: $78 million: U2

5: $69 million: Take That

6: $60 million: Bon Jovi

7: $58 million: Britney Spears

8: $57 million: Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift (tie)

10: $55 million: Justin Bieber, Toby Keith (tie)

View article comments Leave a comment
Author:

Katy DeLuca

Entertainment Editor
The Washington Examiner

More from washingtonexaminer.com

From the Weekly Standard

  • Frack to the Future

    Williston, N.D.

    Read More...
  • Downsize Ike

    The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...

    Read More...
  • The Lesson of Kermit Gosnell

    What was the lesson of the Kermit Gosnell trial? Since the Philadelphia doctor was convicted last month of murdering three born-alive infants, two competing viewpoints have emerged.

    Read More...