Shortly after Adele took home the Grammy award for Album of the Year in February, she broke it in half–with the intention of physically sharing it with Beyoncé, in recognition of the latter’s Lemonade.
But Queen Bey won an even more valuable distinction outright: she’s this year’s highest-paid woman in music, pulling in a whopping $105 million pretax.
Lemonade was a hit with both critics and fans, giving Beyoncé her sixth solo No. 1. The ensuing Formation World Tour, much of it falling into our list’s scoring period, grossed a quarter of a billion dollars.
Then she took time off as she and husband Jay-Z welcomed twins Rumi and Sir this summer.
Adele finished second, earning $69 million, boosted by seven-figure nightly grosses on her first proper tour since 2011.
