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At 14 years old, Swift was the youngest songwriter to ever sign with Sony. She now has 10 Grammys on her shelf, several tours under her belt, and an endless list of chart-topping songs and albums. The pop singer has earned a record-winning 29 AMAs throughout her 15-year career, making her the artist with the most AMA wins ever.
She consistently ranks as one of the highest-paid celebrities in the world. Swift, who has an estimated net worth of $360 million, brought in nearly $200 million in 2019 thanks to a new record deal and the end of a record-breaking tour. That made her the highest-paid celebrity of the year.
3. She even earned more than the world's youngest self-made billionaire, Kylie Jenner.
Jenner earned $170 million — $15 million less than Swift — in 2019, according to Forbes.
4. Swift's $150 million earnings are quadruple the 2019 earnings of the last person on Forbes' highest-paid celebrities list — legendary music icon Celine Dion.
6. Swift's Reputation tour is the highest-grossing tour in US history, grossing over $266 million on more than 2 million ticket sales.
That's more than each of the net worths of five women on Forbes' richest self-made women list, which Swift also has a place on. Those women are Marcia Paige, Suzy Batiz, Reese Witherspoon, Angela Ahrendts, and Serena Williams.
7. Swift is also the first female artist to have six different albums sell over 500,000 copies in a single week.
Swift broke this record in 2019 when her latest album, "Lover," sold 679,000 copies in its first week. It was the largest sales week for any album by any artist since Swift released "Reputation" in 2017.
Assuming a 20% royalty rate minus producers' fees for all sales, Billboard estimated in 2014 that Swift earns $12.99 per album, according to Variety. Based on "Lover" album sales, that translates to $8.8 million earnings, just in the album's first week.
Using that same $12.99 per album earnings estimates, Swift has earned, at minimum, over $38 million just from selling at least 500,000 albums within their launch week six different times. And of course, each album sold copies well beyond the first week of release — in 2018, Billboard reported that Swift's 2017 album "Reputation" had become the only album released within the prior two years to reach the 2 million sold threshold in the United States.
8. Swift currently owns over $81 million worth of real estate — that's more than what other musicians, Drake and Rihanna, each earned in 2019.