• Justin Bieber Named Highest Earning Entertainer Under 30, Beating One Direction, Taylor Swift

    Even though the last year or so has been a PR nightmare for Justin Bieber, that does not mean his career is in the tubes. According to "Forbes," Bieber is the highest earning entertainer under 30 for 2014, bringing in $80 million "thanks mostly to cash from the tail end of his last world tour."At 20, Bieber is also the youngest person on the list.Coming in at second place is One Direction, who have collectively brought in $75 million, while the queen of New York City Taylor Swift comes in third with $64 million — it helps that she released the only platinum album of 2014.Of the 10 entries on the list, nine are musicians, with the sole exception being Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence, who comes in at seventh place with $34 million.
  • Joni Mitchell Halts Biopic About Her Career Starring Taylor Swift

    If you were looking forward to that Joni Mitchell/Carole King/Carly Simon biopic "Girls Like Us," then today, Nov. 25, you are out of luck. In an interview with "The Sunday Times," via "NME," Joni Mitchell revealed that she has pulled the plug on the project, citing the casting of Taylor Swift as one of the primary reasons."I squelched that!" Mitchell admitted. "I said to the producer, 'All you've got is a girl with high cheekbones.' It's just a lot of gossip, you don't have the great scenes.""There's a lot of nonsense about me in books," Mitchell went on to say, "assumptions, assumptions, assumptions."The now-halted film was based on the book "Girls Like Us" by Sheila Weller, which followed the rise of Mitchell and her singer-songwriter contemporaries Carly Simon and Carole King during the 1970s. Swift was cast as Mitchell back in 2012, with "Mad Men's" Jessica Pare cast as Simon and "The Newsroom's" Alison Pill cast as King.
  • The Taylor Swift Experience Coming To Grammy Museum On '1989' Singer's 25th Birthday In December

    Taylor Swift has been nominated for 19 Grammy awards and has won seven of them, including 2010's Album of the Year for Fearless. Basically, anytime Swift has a new album, you can expect a nomination or two, and her new album, 1989, is in line for potential nomination come December. The Grammys are starting to see a pattern here, and have now given the "Shake It Off" singer her own exhibit in Los Angeles' Grammy Museum called The Taylor Swift Experience.
  • Lorde Is Still Friends With Diplo, But Isn't OK With Comments Toward Taylor Swift

    The hatchet appears to be buried between Lorde & Diplo as they settled their "beef" where it began; Twitter. They e-kissed and made up on Monday as Diplo offered to take Lorde out to the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 premiere that night in Los Angeles. As Lorde was not in town, she politely declined, but it seems they are alright now and in a new interview with Fader, Lorde goes over their relationship and why decided to call him out.
  • Taylor Swift Fills Top Digital Downloads Spot with "Blank Space" while Hozier Continues to Rise with "Take Me To Church"

    The streak continues atop the Billboard Digital Downloads chart: Taylor Swift is at no. 1 with current single "Blank Space" and that means for the 15th week in a row, the chart has been topped by either she or Meghan Trainor. Swift sold 328,000 downloads of "Blank Space" last week, a number that has risen as sales of whole album go down (and by "go down" we mean "sold only 312,000 copies this week).
  • Taylor Swift, Tiësto and Avicii Made How Much from Soda Sponsorships in 2014?

    When you think of beverage sponsorships, you may think of athletes working with Gatorade or energy drinks like Red Bull and Monster with just about every professional extreme sports athlete in the world. That bridge has crossed over to the music world, and though this is not new the sponsorship deals are starting to balloon at a rather eye-popping rate.Superstar artists like Avicii, Taylor Swift and Tiësto have all developed a compelling brand that connects with millennials, which large beverage companies want to be attached to. The amount of money they are paying to these artists you may not believe.
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