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Why The List Of Music’s Top Earners Is Like None We’ve Ever Seen Before · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Billboard has just revealed
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  Speaker 1: music's top earners of twenty and being that it was
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  Speaker 1: a year like no other, the list has been shaken
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  Speaker 1: up quite a bit, but with a familiar face on top.
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  Speaker 1: That's Taylor Swift. Touring normally dictates which artists earned the
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  Speaker 1: most in any given year, typically helping jam band country
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  Speaker 1: artists earned sizeable paychecks. In twenty only artists that were
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  Speaker 1: already touring in the first quarter of the year managed
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  Speaker 1: to earn any money on the road. Despite that, Taylor
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  Speaker 1: took number one with zero dollars earned from performances, the
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  Speaker 1: first time that's ever happened, but twenty three point eight
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  Speaker 1: million dollars from streaming in sales put her on top.
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  Speaker 1: Post Malone fortune in a sense to have taken in
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  Speaker 1: more than twelve million from his tour before it was suspended.
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  Speaker 1: He checks in at number two with twenty three point
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  Speaker 1: two million total, Seline Dion number three, seventeen and a
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  Speaker 1: half million. All told, the amount of money earned felt
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  Speaker 1: drastically from twenty nineteen, which saw top artists collectively raking
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  Speaker 1: about nine hundred seventy million dollars In that slid to
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  Speaker 1: three hundred eighty million dollars. Full list is up it
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