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===''Forbes'' Celebrity 100===

[[File:MadonnaO2171023_(97_of_133)_(53269593787)_(cropped).jpg|thumb|right|175px|[[Madonna]]'s groundbreaking music career and business ventures have kept her near the top of the list.]]

''[[Forbes]]'' magazine releases an annual [[Forbes Celebrity 100|''Forbes'' Celebrity 100]] list of the highest-paid celebrities in the world. The total earnings for all top celebrity 100 earners totaled $4.5 billion in 2010 alone.

For instance, ''Forbes'' ranked [[media mogul]] and [[talk show host]], [[Oprah Winfrey]] as the top earner "Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the most powerful celebrities", with earnings of $290 million in the past year. Forbes cites that [[Lady Gaga]] reportedly earned over $90 million in 2010.<ref name = "Lady Gaga Tops Celebrity 100 List">{{cite news |title= Lady Gaga Tops Celebrity 100 List |url= https://www.forbes.com/2011/05/16/lady-gaga-tops-celebrity-100-11.html/= |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120118191350/http://www.forbes.com/2011/05/16/lady-gaga-tops-celebrity-100-11.html/= |url-status= dead |archive-date= January 18, 2012 |work=Forbes|date= May 16, 2016|access-date=October 13, 2019 |first=Dorothy |last=Pomerantz}}</ref> In 2011, golfer [[Tiger Woods]] was one of highest-earning celebrity athletes, with an income of $74 million and is consistently ranked one of the highest-paid [[sportsperson|athlete]]s in the world.<ref name="Lady Gaga Tops Celebrity 100 List"/> In 2013, [[Madonna]] was ranked as the fifth most powerful and the highest-earning celebrity of the year with earnings of $125 million. She has consistently been among the most powerful and highest-earning celebrities in the world, occupying the third place in Forbes Celebrity 100 2009 with $110 million of earnings, and getting the tenth place in the 2011 edition of the list with annual earnings equal to $58 million.<ref>{{cite news |title= Madonna highest-earning celebrity of 2014 |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2013/08/26/madonna-tops-2013-list-of-top-earning-celebrities/|work=Forbes|date= August 26, 2013|access-date=October 13, 2013 |first=Dorothy |last=Pomerantz}}</ref> [[Beyoncé]] has also appeared in the top ten in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2017, and topped the list in 2014 with earnings of $115 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/dorothypomerantz/2014/06/30/beyonce-knowles-tops-the-forbes-celebrity-100-list/#274f04f57c05|title = Beyoncé Knowles Tops the FORBES Celebrity 100 List|website = [[Forbes]]}}</ref> [[Cristiano Ronaldo]] followed by [[Lionel Messi]] in 2020 became the first two athletes in a team sport to surpass $1&nbsp;billion in earnings during their careers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinasettimi/2020/09/14/the-worlds-highest-paid-soccer-players-2020-messi-wins-mbappe-rises/#7601f0671cff |title=World's Highest-Paid Soccer Players: Messi Wins, Mbappe Rises |work=Forbes|access-date=22 September 2020}}</ref>

''Forbes'' also lists the [[Forbes list of the world's highest-paid dead celebrities|top-earning deceased celebrities]], with singer [[Michael Jackson]], fantasy author [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] and children's author [[Roald Dahl]] each topping the annual list with earnings of $500 million over the course of a year.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Freeman|first1=Abigail|title=The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities 2021|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailfreeman/2021/10/30/the-highest-paid-dead-celebrities-2021/|website=Forbes|date=30 October 2021|access-date=10 July 2022|archive-date=30 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030130640/https://www.forbes.com/sites/abigailfreeman/2021/10/30/the-highest-paid-dead-celebrities-2021/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Voytko |first1=Lisette |title=The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2022—A Writer Earns Half-A-Billion From The Great Beyond |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2022/10/31/the-highest-paid-dead-celebrities-of-2022-a-writer-earns-half-a-billion-from-the-great-beyond/?sh=1e9d91d82bb3|website=Forbes |date=October 31, 2022|access-date=October 31, 2022}}</ref>