Two famous female singers in Hollywood – Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez – have become the richest close friends in the American entertainment industry. Swift and Gomez met and became friends 16 years ago, when they were both dating the Jonas brothers.
This month, Taylor Swift (34 years old) got married. officially included in the list of USD billionaires by the prestigious financial magazine Forbes (USA). This is 17 years after Swift officially launched her journey to become a professional female singer.
Swift has now joined the top 14 USD billionaires of the celebrity world culture – sports. She has an estimated fortune of up to 11 billion USD. This fortune is calculated by Forbes based on the revenue from the Eras tour Swift’s music and her real estate collection across the United States.
Swift’s achievement is especially impressive because she built her fortune mainly based on her singing career and did not focus on business activities. Meanwhile, Swift’s close friend – singer Selena Gomez (31 years old) – has also built a fortune of about 800 million USD.
Unlike Swift, Gomez got rich mainly thanks to business activities. The most notable of which is the Rare Beauty cosmetics brand founded by Gomez 4 years ago. This brand is doing brisk business.
Rare Beauty’s sales in 2023 are estimated to have exceeded 300 million USD. This sales level is three times higher than the sales achieved in 2022. Previously, 2022 sales had already doubled the sales of 2021.
With sales increasing exponentially each year, the cosmetic brand Rare Beauty is catching the eye of many people. giant” in the cosmetics industry. The “big guys” certainly have ambitions to acquire Gomez’s brand.
It is likely that Selena Gomez, after successfully building a brand, will sell Rare Beauty at a high price and receive a huge amount of money.
Many experts in the financial field estimate that Selena Gomez’s cosmetics brand currently has a market value of more than 2 billion USD. Selena can quickly join the USD billionaires club by doing it herself business or reselling the brand. The couple Swift and Gomez joining the USD billionaires club is something that will happen in the near future.
In addition to the highly profitable cosmetics business, Selena Gomez is also a “cool” filmmaker. Singer Selena Gomez also successfully tried her hand at acting and film production. Gomez’s salary is currently at $600,000 per TV episode. In fact, in recent years, Gomez has been more active in acting and making movies than singing.
Gomez has his own entertainment company – July Moon Productions. This company produced the hit series 13 Reasons Why (2017-2020) and produced Gomez’s new music products.
At the beginning of her career Gomez earns a lot of money from singing activities. With her solo album Stars Dance (2013), Gomez earned her first $10 million. Then the Stars Dance Tour tour (2013-2014) is estimated to bring her an additional 35 3 million USD. The album Revival (2015) brought Gomez 35 6 million USD…
On Instagram, Gomez has 430 million followers. Big brands “line up” to cooperate in advertising with her. The advertising contracts that Gomez signed with major brands earned her remunerations of up to tens of millions of dollars.
In fact, Gomez is the third highest-earning star on the Instagram platform. . Statistics released by analytical sites in 2023 show that Gomez is only behind two famous players Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in making money from Instagram.
Gomez earns an average of 2.5 million USD from an advertising posting on the platform. Although there were periods when she allowed herself to pause in certain aspects of her entertainment career, Gomez actually never stopped working as an artist.
She has been a child actress since when he was 10 years old. Gomez has been working tirelessly over the years in different fields such as singing, acting, making movies, cosmetics business…
Taylor Alison Swift (born 1989) is a famous American singer-songwriter. Swift began composing professionally at the age of 14. She had her first recording contract in 2005 with Big Machine Records. She quickly achieved success as a female pop country singer with albums such as Taylor Swift (2006) Fearless (2008) and Speak Now (2010).
Singles like Love Story or You Belong with Me witnessed a successful collaboration. of country and pop music helped Swift rise to international music stardom. The fourth album of her career – Red (2012) – is an experiment with electronic music. From this album, she had the hit song We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.
Swift had a transition in image from a country music star to a pop star. with the album 1989 (2014). This is a pop music compilation album that produced hits like Shake It Off Blank Space Bad Blood. The album Reputation (2017) produced the hit Look What You Made Me Do.
After signing a recording contract with Republic Records in 2018 Swift released the album Lover (2019) and the biographical documentary Miss Americana (2020). Swift exploited the indie folk style in the albums Folklore and Evermore, both released in 2020. She brought electronic pop elements to the album Midnights (2022).
The Eras international tour (2023-2024) and the film surrounding this tour have become a tour and a film about the tour achieved the greatest sales of all time.
Swift is one of the best-selling artists in the world with more than 200 million records sold globally as of 2019. She is also a female artist going on a tour with the biggest sales in music history and being a female singer who attracts the largest number of music listeners on a number of digital music platforms. Swift is the first female USD billionaire to build a “billion dollar” fortune mainly from her singing career.
In 2023 Time magazine honored Swift as Human item of the year. Swift has repeatedly appeared on prestigious magazine lists surrounding the greatest artists of all time and the most powerful women in the world. She has won countless music awards, the most impressive of which are 14 Grammy awards. Swift holds the record with 4 Grammy Awards for Album of the Year.
