Taylor Swift’s Billionaire Status Is Now Forbes-Official

glamour.com:

in , these things aren’t official-official until they’re in Forbes, and Swift just joined the outlet’s rarefied ranks. (The Forbes of it all is why it was such a big deal when Kylie Jenner, ahem, her company’s business to the outlet.)On April 2, 2024, the magazine published its annual list of billionaires, , on which Swift clocks in at number fourteen (the bottom, actually), with 1.1B to her name.

She's behind a handful of producer/directors, athlete/moguls, Oprah, Jay-Z, Rihanna, and . The article notes that Swift is the first and so far only musician to attain this feat “strictly off of earnings from her music and performances” rather than, say, Rihanna's income coming mostly from her makeup and lingerie lines. (Swift does sell merch and used to have a perfume, but the value of her estate doesn't come from that…or something…business majors can surely explain the distinction.)This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Taylor Swift continues to put out new material at an impressive clip, re-recording and re-releasing her back catalog and dropping two brand new albums during the pandemic, another in 2022, and soon, her eleventh studio album, .

Her movie version of The Eras Tour was a box office hit, and knowing Team Swift, they got Disney to pony up for the streaming rights.

She's also on tour for most of the rest of the year, after which she will begin production on her first feature film as a director.Meanwhile, her is also trending upward.