Luke Bryan #1 that incudes earnings from albums sales, tour, American Idol and endorsement deals so he landed at the top spot with $52 million. Garth had a World Tour and sold over 6 million tickets his earnings raked up $45.5 Million. Kenny Chesney scored the third spot with $37 million, mostly from his Trip Around the Sun Tour, and his own Blue Chair Rum and an endorsement deal with Corona. More INFO: HERE
The estimates represent pretax income from June 1, 2017 through June 1, 2018.
the Top 10 ainclude Florida Georgia Line ($27 million), Jason Aldean (23 million), Toby Keith ($22 million), Brad Paisley ($20 million) and Dolly Parton ($19 million).
and that’s quite a shake up from last year…….
Not too surprised to see @LukeBryanOnline on top. No. 10 kinda shocked us though! https://t.co/kyoGxypyMY
— Taste of Country (@TasteOfCountry) August 19, 2018
Dolly earned $19 million last year, according to Forbes, and was the highest earning female of country music, despite not touring or releasing an album for profit https://t.co/QQNCvuD5ti
— Dolly Parton News (@DollyLite) August 15, 2018