LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Swift (photo) is used to topping the Billboard charts, but this time it’s for her cash flow. The singer is No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 40 Moneymak-ers list, bringing in a cool $39,699,575.60.
Swift’s Red Tour, album sales and sponsorships all contribut- ed to the high earnings in 2013, according to Billboard’s meth-odology. No stranger to the list, Swift was also the highest-paid musician on Billboard’s Top 40 Moneymakers list in 2012 after touring for her second album, Fearless.