6. Dolly Parton
Personal earnings: $37 million (£26.6 million)
Country singer Dolly Parton once sang about the woes of working a 9-to-5 job – but, luckily for her, she doesn’t have to worry about ever working another day in her life with the kind of money she earned between 2016 and 2017!
Best known for a backlog of hits including ‘Jolene’, ‘9 to 5’ and ‘I Will Always Love You’ (yes, it was Parton, not the late Whitney Houston, who originally made the song famous, way back in 1974), the Queen of Country may be 71 years old but doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon! In fact, she released her 43rd studio album, Pure & Simple, in August 2016, which was supported by a 65-date tour across North America.