5. Jennifer Lopez
Personal earnings: $38 million (£27.3 million)
Jennifer Lopez leads the top five best-paid women in music. The 10-time Billboard Latin Music Award winner started her career as an actress and rose to international acclaim for her leading performance in the 1997 biopic Selena. Lopez didn’t venture into the music industry until two years later with the release of her debut studio album On the 6, a Top 10 hit which went on to sell over 8 million copies worldwide.
Lopez’s annual income is made up of ticket sales from her ongoing Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood, as well as acting fees for her appearance in Ice Age: Collision Course and lucrative endorsement deals with the likes of L’Oréal.