{"id":18406,"date":"2012-12-03T15:03:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18406"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:03:58","slug":"dr-dre-tops-forbes-list-of-highest-paid-musicians-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18406","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Dre Tops Forbes List Of Highest Paid Musicians 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rap icon <strong>Dr. Dre<\/strong> was ranked number one on a recently-released Forbes list of the world\u2019s 25 highest paid musicians, after banking an estimated $110 million between May 2011 and May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of <strong>Dr. Dre\u2019s<\/strong> earning power is reported to have come more from the sales of his line of headphones, Beats by Dre, rather than his music.<\/p>\n<p>His long delayed follow-up to his blockbuster album 2001, titled <em>Detox<\/em>, has yet to be released.<\/p>\n<p>Other musicians that trailed <strong>Dre<\/strong> in money made include <strong>Pink Floyd\u2019s<\/strong> <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> with $88 million, <strong>Sir Elton John <\/strong>with $80 million and popular Irish rock band U2 with $78 million.<\/p>\n<p>Pop star <strong>Rihanna<\/strong>, recently off her \u2019777&#8242; tour, also made the list, landing at No. 12 with $58 million earned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<\/strong> earned $45 million to tie for the 15th spot with pop star <strong>Katy Perry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On the list are also <strong>Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles <\/strong>with $40 million, her husband<strong> Jay-Z <\/strong>with $38 million, and rapper<strong> Kanye West <\/strong>shares the No. 22 spot with British crooner <strong>Adele<\/strong> at $35 million earned.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rap icon Dr. Dre was ranked number one on a recently-released Forbes list of the world\u2019s 25 highest paid musicians, after banking an estimated $110 million between May 2011 and May 2012. The majority of Dr. Dre\u2019s earning power is reported to have come more from the sales of his line of headphones, Beats by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}