{"id":12362,"date":"2012-12-01T12:11:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T12:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=12362"},"modified":"2012-12-01T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T12:11:40","slug":"taylor-kenny-among-highest-paid-musicians-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/01\/taylor-kenny-among-highest-paid-musicians-of-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor, Kenny Among Highest-Paid Musicians of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildhorse.co.za\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12363\" alt=\"taylorkenny01\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/taylorkenny01.jpg\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/taylorkenny01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/taylorkenny01-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney Among Highest-Paid Musicians of 2012<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Mirror, mirror on the wall, who are the highest paid country musicians of them all? That honor goes to country favorites Taylor Swift and Kenny Chesney. The superstars, along with Toby Keith, earned spots on the Forbes World\u2019s Highest-Paid Musicians of 2012 list. And you know that ain\u2019t a bad place to be.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift landed in the plum position of No. 7, tying with Paul McCartney, who is a legend and has been at this music industry game a lot longer than she has. Earlier this year, the 22-year-old star was named the highest celebrity earner under the age of 30. The \u2018We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together\u2019 singer raked in income receipts of $57 million, thanks to her music, touring and cosmetic endorsements, like her CoverGirl contract and her perfume portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Keith wasn\u2019t too far behind on the 2012 list of highest-paid artists, landing at No. 10 with $55 million in earnings. That\u2019s quite an impressive feat. As for Kenny\u00a0Chesney, he took the No. 17 spot, but don\u2019t doubt his cash flow \u2014 he tallied up a whopping $44 million.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer numbers here are enough to blow anyone\u2019s mind. But given how dutifully these three entertain their fans, they deserve all the fame and good fortune that has befallen them.<\/p>\n<p>Article Compliments of Amy Sciarretto, Taste Of Country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney Among Highest-Paid Musicians of 2012 Mirror, mirror on the wall, who are the highest paid country musicians of them all? That honor goes to country favorites Taylor Swift and Kenny Chesney. The superstars, along with Toby Keith, earned spots on the Forbes World\u2019s Highest-Paid Musicians of 2012 list. And you know that ain\u2019t a bad place to be. Taylor Swift landed in the plum position of No. 7, tying with Paul McCartney, who is a legend and has been at this music industry game a lot<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/01\/taylor-kenny-among-highest-paid-musicians-of-2012\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}