LIST: Top Ten Highest-Paid Musicians 2012

1. Dr. Dre ($110 million)

Another year, another crop of musicians making bank. Forbes has released its list of highest-paid musicians, led this year not by a popstar or rock band, but a doctor. Despite sounding angry in every song, rapper and beatmaker Dr. Dre earned a cool $110 million between May 2011 and May 2012. Most of that had nothing to do with the production of music, though: Dre earned the vast majority of that from his über-trendy headphone line, Beats by Dre.


2. Roger Waters ($88 million)

3. Elton John ($80 million)

4. U2 ($78 million)

5. Take That ($69 million).

6. Bon Jovi ($60 million) 

7. Britney Spears ($58 million)

8-Paul McCartney ($57 million, tie)

9. Taylor Swift ($57 million, tie)

10. Justin Bieber ($55 million, tie)