What happens when you smash the Rolling Stones’ North American touring record, sell millions of albums and add seven-figure endorsements with the likes of Keds, Diet Coke and Apple? If you’re Taylor Swift, you clock the biggest single-year payday of your career.   Taylor Swift pulled in $170 million duringour scoring

While many of the usual suspects are represented on the Forbes list of top moneymakers in music for 2015, there are a few surprises.  Most of these come from the wide diversity of artists who made the list.  One thing is clear though. Touring is now the industry’s big moneymaker and