Top 10 Celebrities Earning Under the age of 30
10. Taylor Lautner
$22 million
With Twilight at an end, Lautner has to build a career outside of the
supernatural franchise. His non-Twilight debut, Abduction, was a bust.
He’ has a small role in the Adam Sandler film Grown Ups 2. 09 more after the break...
09. Kristen Stewart
$22 million
The Twilight money still rolling in (for now). Her earnings look set for
a tumble: While she helped make Snow White and the Huntsman a hit, a
sequel is still a ways off and the actress doesn't seem terribly
interested in doing more big-budget movies.
08. Jennifer Lawrence
$26 million
Hollywood's new It girl walked away from 2012 with an Oscar for Best
Actress for Silver Linings Playbook and one of the top-grossing movies
of the year with The Hunger Games. Lawrence was paid under $1 million
for the first Hunger Games movie but Lionsgate was happy to pay more to
secure her for the second installment: Catching Fire. As Katniss,
Lawrence has shown that action heroes don't always have to be played by
men for a film to turn a profit.
07. Adele
$30 million
The singer still sells plenty of music but without a big global tour, it
was hard for her to make the Celebrity 100 this year. The new mom got
plenty of attention this year for “Skyfall,” her theme for the latest
Bond movie. It won an Oscar for Best Original Song.
06. Katy Perry
$39 million
It's been a relatively quiet year for Perry as she prepares for a
follow-up to Teenage Dream, which made her the only act besides Michael
Jackson to have five No. 1 singles from the same album. She still earns
plenty for private gigs, a fragrance with Coty and a deal with Popchips,
the snackmaker in which she also holds an equity stake. Her 2012 biopic
Part of Me added a seven-figure sum to her bottom line.
05. Rihanna
$43 million
The Barbados-born singer continues to rake in the dough, playing over 40
shows during our scoring period and releasing new album Unapologetic,
her seventh in seven years. Even if you're not one of her 30
million-plus Twitter followers, it's hard not miss her recent singles
"Diamonds" and "Stay" and her ubiquitous Vita Coco ads. And that's a
formula that should keep the cash coming for years.
04. Calvin Harris
$46 million
Calvin Harris makes his debut on FORBES' Celebrity 100 after a stellar
year. Discovered on Myspace eight year ago as a singer-songwriter,
Harris has morphed into a world-renowned DJ and producer. In February,
he signed on to play more than 70 shows over a two-year period in Las
Vegas. While the majority of his money comes from performing, he also
earns from writing and producing songs like Rihanna's Grammy-winning "We
Found Love." Harris played more than 150 shows in the 12 months since
June 1, 2012.
03. Taylor Swift
$55 million
Who says the music industry is dead? Swift released her fourth studio
album, Red, in October 2012 and sold 1.2 million copies in week one. The
album's first single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," became
her first to top Billboard's Hot 100 chart. She parlayed that success
into endorsement deals with Diet Coke, Sony and Covergirl, not to
mention big bucks on the road. She should earn even more next year as
she transitions from arena shows to stadium sellouts.
02. Justin Bieber
$58 million
Since appearing on the cover of FORBES last year, the Canadian crooner
has toured the world, picked up another 20 million Twitter followers and
earned another $58 million (that sum would have been even higher if we
hadn't credited him with a double-digit million-dollar merchandise
advance last year). With stakes in startups including Enflick, Tinychat
and Spotify, he shows no signs of slowing down.
01. Lady Gaga
$80 million
The Queen Monster would have earned even more had it not been for a hip
injury that curtailed her Born This Way Ball Tour. The tour grossed $168
million through January; had Gaga been able to finish it, she would
have likely topped $200 million. With a new album in the works, look for
her to stay around the top of this list.