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The most lucrative singers in 2021 top of the world music world, you see that the ten highest-earning musicians in the world in 2021 together grossed $2.3 billion, more than double what they earned a year in the years before the plague. Most of them sold their works or sponsorships to brands, proving that music alone is unprofitable.
Only musicians or other celebrities could make things, like selling catalogs or advertising brands. It highlights how unstable music itself is. This is an unstable profession and does not turn people into millionaires if they only engage in net music.
The ranking, conducted by the Rolling Stones magazine, measured the annual income of the ten musicians earning in 2021, before tax deductions and various commissions:
1. Bruce Springsteen — $ 590 million
The first on the list was one of the most prominent catalog sales trends. Springsteen sold the copyright to his work to Sony last December. The $ 550 million deal has made history the biggest sale of a solo catalog. Back on Broadway last summer added millions to his fortune, as did two projects with Barack Obama: a podcast called Renegades: Born in the USA and a book of the same name, based on the conversations of these two American symbols about the world and life.
