Taylor Swift Is Officially A Billionaire

Taylor Swift is officially a billionaire. The singer-songwriter made Forbes' 2024 list of "New Billionaires" of the year, joining NBA legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson and French fashion designer Christian Louboutin.

The publication attributes most of her wealth to her record-breaking five-continent Eras Tour. It is the first tour to surpass $1 billion in revenue. The 34-year-old pop star amassed an estimated $1.1 billion fortune based on earnings from the blockbuster tour, the value of her music catalog, and her real estate portfolio. Swift is the first musician to hit ten-figure status solely based on her songs and performances.

Swift owns eight properties. Her west village apartment is listed for $17.9 million or available to rent for $45,000 a month. As for her Tribeca penthouse, which was two that she combined into one, her friend Sophie Turner has been living there since her divorce with Joe Jonas. She bought another penthouse next door to expand for an additional three bedrooms. She owns an estate in Rhode Island, right on the beach.

Moving to the west coast, Swift has two Beverly Hills properties. The first is another massive estate that is being renovated, while the other property she sold for $2.65 million in September 2023. Then, for her southern properties, Swift has a massive estate in Nashville, as well as a penthouse -- her first real estate purchase.

Meanwhile, the pop icon's concert film became the highest-grossing concert/documentary film of all time as of January 2024. The Eras Tour movie surpassed $261.6 million, pushing it past the previous record holder, Michael Jackson’s This Is It, the posthumous 2009 doc that grossed $261.2 million at the global box office.

Her concert film also had the biggest opening for a concert movie, beating out the previous record-holder, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, which racked up $73 million in its opening frame in 2011. Swift's concert doc raked in $92.8 million. with $30.7 million in international gross, for $123.5 million total earned.

Rihanna entered the billionaire club in 2021, but not due to her music. Most of her wealth was acquired from her cosmetics company, Fenty Beauty, and from her Savage x Fenty memberships. Her Fenty Beauty fortune is valued at an estimated $1.4 billion, and she owns 50% of it. Meanwhile, Savage x Fenty rakes in about $270 million, and the remainder of her earnings stem from her career as a chart-topping musician and actress.

As we previously reported, by October 2023, Swift had already earned $80 million from music sales, $110 million in property values, earned $120 million from streaming earnings, $370 million in ticket sales and merchandise, and her re-released music since 2019 has an estimated $400 million value. The "tortured poet" reportedly generated as much money as the economies of small nations during her 21-city stop across North America in the first leg of her Eras Tour. Each city saw a significant economic boost. This includes record-breaking hotel revenues and increased visitor spending.

As we kick off 2024, many of our favorite musicians are planning to hit the road once again. Some are continuing their tours from last year, expanding dates in cities that have sold out and filling up stadiums for their ever-devoted fans. Gametime has released new data highlighting the most anticipated concert tours of the year based on average ticket price -- and some of the numbers are astounding. It is no surprise that the highest-priced tours belong to Taylor Swift and Adele, as we've covered their past ticket prices being thousands of dollars.

Swift's Eras Tour shows last three-and-a-half hours as she covers all aspects of her career, from country to pop to indie. With her two “surprise songs” each night, fans are always eager to find out what songs she’ll choose for that segment. On top of that, her timing is impeccable for fans “itching for a post-pandemic live music immersive experience.” Another factor is how much Swifties appreciate Taylor’s dedication to her craft: writing all her songs and reclaiming ownership of all of her music by re-recording her discography. Fans have also been buying and streaming the new versions of her old songs and the bonus tracks on her re-recorded versions of her albums. Her tour is expected to pass $1 billion in sales by this March and if that happens, the singer-songwriter will make history.

Then there's Adele, whose Las Vegas residency, Weekends With Adele has reached the finale. With 32 dates, the English singer-songwriter will be at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace from January to June. Known for spending time chatting with her fans and making her way down to the audience, the candid moments during Adele's residency has become well-documented on social media, showing the fun times fans have to see her.

Take a look below at which five music artists have the hottest concert tickets of 2024 so far, based on the prices of their tickets on Gametime.

Kicking off our list of the highest priced tickets of 2024, the "Piano Man" singer will only be performing for 15 dates. However, his average ticket price is $560.07 and he will be all over the globe, starting with a sold-out show in Tokyo, Japan, on January 24. With more sold-out shows sprinkled throughout his scheduled performances, Joel added additional dates to his original ten events. In additon to his Madison Square Garden residency, he will also play Florida, Texas, California, Washington, Illinois, Colorado, Missouri, and Wales.

The "WHERE SHE GOES" singer and rapper will be on his Most Wanted tour, with 47 dates. His median ticket price is $661.01, starting in Utah at the end of February. Bad Bunny will also be making stops in nearly every state: Nevada, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Minneapolis, Missouri, Illinois, Ontario, Michigan, Washington, D.C., New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and ending in Florida on May 28.

The "vampire" singer embarks on her GUTS World Tour, with her tickets' median price being $734.17. Rodrigo will be touring the US for 46 dates with accompanying acts Pinkpantheress, The Breeders, Chappell Roan, and Remi Wolf at select cities. The singer will kick off the tour a few days after her 21st birthday in California, before making stops in Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Canada, Massachusetts, then New York. She will leave North America for tour dates in Ireland, the UK, Scotland, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Portugal. After a few weeks break, Rodrigo will return to North America for 18 more dates, finally closing out her tour on August 17 in Los Angeles.

Coming in at second place, Adele's continuation and end of her Las Vegas residency boasts $2,079.42 as her median ticket prices to watch her perform live. The "Easy on Me" singer will be performing for 32 dates over the course of 2024, from January 19 to June 15 at The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace. She had 24 shows in 23 and the English singer-songwriter is set to outdo herself with the additional dates this year. Reflecting on X (formerly Twitter), the Grammy winner said, "This residency, these shows have changed my life. I desperately needed to fall back in love with performing live again, and I have."

The pop icon's median ticket price for her 2024 Eras Tour is a whopping $3,525.42, having her claim the top spot for highest-priced tickets of the year. With 18 tour dates this year, Swift will be heading all over the globe, making stops at Australia, Japan, Singapore, France, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, Austria, then heading back to the US. She will be performing in Florida, Louisiana, and Indiana, before going global once again in Canada, closing out her tour on December 8 in Vancouver.