Her life is the smashing success that a lot of people dream of but may never attain. In a move that came as no surprise to most people who have been watching her musical odyssey, Taylor Swift has now been confirmed to be a billionaire.
Rumours of her joining the billionaires’ league have been flying around for a while, but Forbes has only just confirmed that, with an estimated fortune of USD 1.1 billion – an impressive figure by any standard.
But that is not all. Her becoming a billionaire is especially significant because, according to Forbes, she was the first musician to achieve billionaire status solely on the basis of her music.
That’s like another milestone to her already saturated orbit of milestones.
Most musicians who made it to the billionaires’s league at some point, from Jay-Z to Kanye West to the embattled Diddy, did not make it to the three-comma-club solely from their music. Business ventures and partnerships contributed to their billionaire status. But that’s by the way.
It might be said that Taylor Swift’s ongoing Eras Tour contributed to her current billionaire status. Given how popular the tour has been and the sheer rapture with which she is received everywhere on tour, her net worth can only balloon.
