3. Taylor Swift
Personal earnings: $44 million (£31.6 million)
At the age of 28, Taylor Swift is already a 10-time Grammy Award winner and one of the world’s best-selling female vocalists ever, as well as one of the most influential women in entertainment. So influential that between the 2016-2017 scoring period, Swift didn’t really get up to all that much – but still managed to make a tonne of money, anyway!
Her latest release, Reputation, produced the No 1 single ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ and went on to become the best-selling album in 2017 in the US. She also partnered with former One Direction member Zayn Malik on the song ‘I Don’t Want to Love Forever’ for Fifty Shades Darker – it peaked at No 2 and earned the duo an MTV Millennial Award for Best Collaboration.