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Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton Make Forbes Highest Paid Celebrities List

Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton made the Forbes list of the 100 highest-paid celebrities for 2020. Luke Bryan ranked at #62 on the list, making a whopping $45.5 million. While he…

Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton Make Forbes Highest Paid Celebrities List
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Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton made the Forbes list of the 100 highest-paid celebrities for 2020.

Luke Bryan ranked at #62 on the list, making a whopping $45.5 million. While he pushed back his "Proud To Be Right Here Tour" due to the coronavirus outbreak, before the pandemic, he had been pulling in an average gross of more than $1 million per city on tour.

Forbes reports that Bryan has plenty of income outside of music, earning an estimated $12 million each season as a judge on American Idol.

Blake Shelton made the list coming in at #70 earning $43.5 million. Forbes said that Shelton earns far more from The Voice than he does from recorded music. He makes $13 million per season for his role as a judge alongside Nick Jonas, Kelly Clarkson and John Legend.

Before the coronavirus outbreak, Shelton was grossing just shy of $1 million per city on the road.

The top-earning celebrities were Kylie Jenner and Kanye West​, who brought in $590 million and $170 million, respectively.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.