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Let’s hear the applause! Taylor Swift has been having one of the best years of her career—and she’s not slowing down any time soon. Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) releases at midnight on July 7, and the singer is nearing the end of one of her biggest U.S. tours to date.
The Eras Tour, a six-month, stadium-only tour across the United States, is the crowning jewel in the singer’s long history of *major* icon moments. The show spans nearly three and a half hours, highlights her greatest hits, and has an ever-growing list of celebrity guests (from Ice Spice to Aaron Rodgers). You can probably guess that it’s also raking in a lot of dough.
Taylor’s tour most recently added an extra show in Los Angeles, meaning it’ll have 53 shows across 21 cities. Plus, Taylor recently announced the tour would be going global, with dates ranging from Mexico City in August 2023, to London in August 2024 (she also recently added 14 new shows to the European leg, phew!)
Taylor’s latest Eras “era” is by and far her most successful. At the end of last year, she became the first artist to claim the Billboard Top 100’s entire top 10 songs in a single frame, per Billboard. Every one of the songs was from Midnights. In January, Taylor’s latest album had already sold 1.9 million copies, per Billboard. Most recently, Forbes estimates that the success of her current tour could help her reach billionaire status (but more on that later).
Offstage, Taylor’s been enjoying her hot girl summer, and putting in work at the studio. And that’s not just because her nearly four-year-old Lover track, “Cruel Summer,” is on its way to the top of the Billboard charts after she re-released it as a single.
So, how does Tay’s hard work pan out in her wallet? Below, Women’s Health has all the details on the star’s wealth, from her upbringing to her current net worth.
She had a comfortable childhood.
Despite the living room dancing and kitchen table bills she sings about, Taylor didn’t start out with nothing. In fact, she had a pretty good leg up thanks to her family. Her dad worked for Merrill Lynch and she grew up in a nice house in Pennsylvania before her family relocated to another nice house in Nashville to help her pursue her music career.
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Eight of her albums have released at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Yup, Taylor broke onto the music scene in 2006 with “Tim McGraw,” and she didn’t waste any time churning out hit after hit over the ensuing 16 years. In fact, Taylor’s had a record-making eight albums release at No.1 on the charts. According to The Hollywood Reporter, those include (all first-week sales):
- folklore: 846,000 equivalent album units
- Lover: 867,000 units
- reputation: 1.24 million units
- 1989: 1.287 million units
- Red: 1.208 million units
- Speak Now: 1.047 million units
- Fearless: 592,000 units
- Midnights: 1.9 million units
Midnights actually marked the “biggest week for any [album] release in seven years,” Billboard reported, and she now holds the record for the most top 10s for female artists in the chart’s history.
Taylor has grossed over $100 million from her current tour.
Taylor’s Reputation Stadium Tour sold out (of course) and she earned $191.1 million during the U.S. leg, according to the Grammy website. With that, she broke her own record of being the woman with the highest-grossing U.S. tour. Overall, the tour raked in $345 million, according to Billboard.
However, her current tour is blowing the Reputation tour out of the water. In just 22 performances since March, Taylor has grossed an estimate of $110 million. Bloomberg recently reported that the average Eras ticket cost around $254, which brings the average ticket sale earnings to about $13 million each night. After paying expenses, Taylor will personally pocket around $30 million, per Forbes.
Eras is currently the highest grossing tour worldwide, by a long shot. Bruce Springsteen’s latest tour clocked around $142 million after 36 dates, but, considering her nightly revenue, Taylor is well on her way to the top spot. Pollstar estimates that “Eras” will surpass the billions mark by the time Taylor performs in Singapore in March 2024. No artist has ever grossed such a massive amount from a single tour, according to Bloomberg.
She’s made documentaries and short films.
Taylor created a documentary for Netflix during her Reputation tour that reportedly made her millions (the exact amount wasn’t disclosed, though). She also released the documentary Miss Americana in 2020 with Netflix, and Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions with Disney Plus.
Last year, Taylor released All Too Well: The Short Film, which was a short film adaptation of her single “All Too Well.” The film won three separate awards—including a Grammy for Best Music Video, per IMDb.
She’s willing to fight for fair royalties.
Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) is obviously not a one-off endeavor. Taylor is currently re-recording her earlier catalogue to regain the rights to her own music. In 2019, Scooter Braun bought Swift’s masters (and later sold them to Shamrock Holdings in 2020), meaning Taylor does not get a cut of revenue from streams or sales of her original six albums.
In 2021, she released two rerecorded albums Fearless (Taylor’s Version) and Red (Taylor’s Version), making Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) her third rerecording. By doing this, Taylor reclaims ownership of her work and gets royalties from those albums.
Taylor has also advocated for fair rights for artists from streamers themselves. In 2015, Taylor released her infamous Apple Music Letter which called out the company for unfair royalty payments to its artists. She announced she would not be streaming her 1989 album on the platform, and Apple Music quickly updated their policy.
She also completely pulled her catalogue from Spotify in 2014 (and later added it back in 2017), likely for the same reasons, per Insider. It isn’t clear exactly how much Taylor earns from streaming, but considering her advocacy, she’s at least getting a fair paycheck.
She’s also starred in movies.
Taylor has appeared (or voiced a character) in several movies: Amsterdam, Cats, The Giver, The Lorax, and Valentine’s Day, to name a few. Her salaries for these roles has not been disclosed, but I’d imagine they were pretty hefty.
Her folklore and evermore albums helped her make $23.8 million in 2020.
In 2020, Taylor got to work on some new music, pulling out all the creative stops to rocket her net worth even higher. She netted $23.8 million from sales generated from the two albums, folklore and evermore, that she dropped that year, per Billboard. And she wasn’t even on tour!
She does a lot of endorsements.
Taylor has put her name on plenty of big brands. Those include:
- Capital One
- Keds
- Coca-Cola (remember that commercial?)
- Apple
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She has a private jet.
It’s worth $40 million and has the number “13” painted on the side, per Insider. Dang, girl. She reportedly spent a total of 15.9 days in the air in 2022, per National World.
She also owns a lot of nice real estate.
Taylor’s got plenty of places she can call home, but she famously spends quite a good deal of time in Manhattan. She’s literally got songs that reference the city like “Cornelia Street,” “Welcome to New York,” etc. As of 2020, Taylor owned seven different properties in four states, according to the Wall Street Journal, and her whole portfolio included real estate in:
- NYC (~$45 million)—she’s basically on track to own an entire apartment building in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood.
- Nashville ($10.5 million)—Taylor actually owns two properties in Nashville—a strip of luxury apartments and The Northumberland Estate, a 7,700 square-foot home that her mother, Andrea, reportedly lives in.
- Massachusetts —Back in 2012, when she was dating Conor Kennedy, Taylor purchased a seven-bedroom house in Cape Cod for $4.8 million. After the pair split, she sold the property for $5.675 in 2013.
- Rhode Island (currently estimated at $30 million)—if you recall, this is the house that inspired the song “last great american dynasty.” Plus, TMZ said she bought this house in cash–for $17.75 million, apparently. Phew.
- California (around $70 million)—In 2018, Taylor sold her Beverly Hills cottage for $4 million and her other Beverly Hills home for $2.65 million. She does still have a huge 1934 mansion in the area that is worth around $70 million, per the Wall Street Journal.
What is her total net worth?
Taylor’s total net worth is around $780 million, according to Forbes, which means she outpaces Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, and Adele. She’s currently ranked as #34 on Forbes‘ America’s Richest Self-Made Women list, and is only behind Rihanna as highest-paid from a career in music. Taylor is on track to become a billionaire with “Eras” swiftly becoming the best-selling tour of all time.
Korin Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Self, Glamour, and more. She has a master’s degree from American University, lives by the beach, and hopes to own a teacup pig and taco truck one day.
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