A combined $6.1 billion some time recently paid charges and expenses, a $200 million drop from 2019, after the worldwide widespread covered stadiums and hushed exhibitions around the world. The decrease was the to begin with since 2016, the year after Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao earned about half a billion dollars between them from the wealthiest battle in boxing history.
But indeed with Covid-19 lurking–and America on fire in each sense of the word taking after the kill of George Floyd–the appear still went on. The beat gaining celebrities were Kylie Jenner and Kanye West, who brought in $590 million and $170 million, separately. West collected most of his earnings from his Yeezy shoes bargain with Adidas, whereas Jenner’s payday came from offering a 51% stake in her beauty care products firm to Coty in January.
Whereas she had overstated over the a long time around the estimate of her commerce, the cash she pulled in from the bargain was real–enough to rank as one of the greatest celebrity cashouts of all time. Three gushing monsters doled out $300 million to stars on the list, counting Ryan Reynolds (No. 18, $71.5 million), Billie Eilish (No. 43, $53 million) and Jerry Seinfeld (No. 46, $51 million), with Netflix paying out more than two thirds of that.
Live appears drove career-best pay for a few of music’s greatest names, with Ed Sheeran’s Separate Visit drawing 8.9 million fans and grossing $776 million over two-plus a long time to outperform U2’s all-time record for a single visit. Others will take a hit another year as visits for everybody from Taylor Quick (No. 25, $63.5 million) to Paul McCartney (No. 93, $37 million) have been cancelled since of the pandemic.
In sports, Roger Federer (No. 3, $106.3 million) is the to begin with tennis player to gain the beat spot among competitors on the list, whereas soccer’s Cristiano Ronaldo (No. 4, $105 million) got to be the to begin with group player to win $1 billion amid his career.
Naomi Osaka set her claim record at No. 90, bringing in $37 million wage, the most cash any female competitor has ever made in a single year. Podcasting makes its to begin with appearance in the voice of Charge Simmons (No.13, $82.5 million), who sold his podcast company The Ringer to Spotify in February for $206 million.
Another newcomer: Hamilton maker and star Lin-Manuel Miranda (No. 62, $45.5 million), who included to his pull from the Broadway hit in February when Walt Disney paid $75 million for the rights to discuss the shot adaptation of his Establishing Father melodic. Miranda joined a refrain of celebrities utilizing their acclaim to talk out after the slaughtering of Floyd: “It’s up to us, in words and deeds, to stand up for our individual citizens. ” He’s one of a developing bunch of stars working to order systemic alter.
More than a dozen on the Celebrity 100 have contributed or something else worked with Andreessen Horowitz’s Social Authority Finance, which points to grow speculation openings and get to to tech employments among African Americans.
