


Swift proved once more why Universal Music Group and Republic Records were eager to keep her in the family with a new worldwide record deal. In addition to her hefty $90.5 million in touring income in 2018 — almost twice that of this year’s runner-up, Bruce Springsteen — Swift’s combined recorded-music royalties (sales, streaming and publishing) are the seventh-highest on this list. Contributing to that total were her 2017 album, reputation, and a catalog that generated 1.3 million terrestrial radio spins and almost 3 billion on-demand streams. Her publishing income was just shy of the top 10 for the category, and the Aug. 23 release of her seventh album, Lover, should keep the momentum going.