World tour, box office… How Taylor Swift became a billionaire at 34

It’s a very exclusive club that Taylor Swift just joined. With an estimated heritage today $1.1 billion“Tay Tay” is officially a billionaire, after a historic 2023, according to the magazine’s annual ranking Forbes published Tuesday 2 April.

This is only thanks to the income deriving from his music, an absolute novelty for an artist. And for good reason, in 2023, the 34-year-old singer was everywhere.

Film releases, tours and albums

A fortune made possible first and foremost thanks to its catalogue, estimated at 500 million dollars. A figure that increased after she re-recorded four of her old albums, following a standoff with her former record company who refused to sell her the original recording rights back.

Then, his record-breaking world tour, with 152 dates, The Turn of the Ages it grossed over $1 billion, giving Swift another $360 million to her fortune. A tour that is not over, as it will continue until December 8th. Until then, it’s not impossible that Taylor Swift could still have a few tens of millions of dollars in her wallet.

Another (very) profitable source of income: cinema. The singer produced the film herself The Turn of the Ages, a concert film based on his tour, which grossed $261 million at the worldwide box office. AND Forbes not even counting the royalties paid to Swift by Disney, estimated at around $75 million, to broadcast the film on its streaming platform.

Taylor Swift is not the only musical artist to have entered the inner circle of billionaire musicians, Jay Z, Rihannaand the singer Jimmy Buffett, who died last September, were part of this “club”. But the latter owe their fortune to activities unrelated to their music.

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