8. Britney Spears
Personal earnings: $34 million (£24.4 million)
Britney Spears once sang that you ‘better work, b*tch’. Well, she followed her own advice – and all that hard work definitely paid off, if her income for 2016-2017 is anything to go by.
During that period, the Princess of Pop grossed over $36 million from her Las Vegas residency (when it ended in December 2017 after a 3-year run, it made more than $137 million in revenue). Sales of her perfume Fantasy in Bloom, as well as a number of endorsement deals and a mobile game for Android and iOS, also added a couple of zeros to her bank balance.