8.16.2013

The Highest Paid DJs of 2013

Dance music has gotten so big that Forbes even created a list of the highest paid DJs of the year (two years in a row)... And topping that list?

None other than Calvin Harris who made an astonishing $46 million in the past year.

Though, I am highly suspect of this amount since, in a 2012 interview (about making $11.5 million on Forbes' list last year), deadmau5 said,
"It's bullshit. I had to call my manager and say, "Yo! Where’s the other 10?" Sure, we've seen $20 million in the past two years, but that's gone back into the studio, into tours—they cost up to $10 million alone. It's money in, money out for all of us, but the list makes us look like a bunch of overpaid dicks."
The Forbes 2013 List:
1) Calvin Harris - $46 million
2) Tiesto - $32 million
3) David Guetta - $30 million
4) Swedish House Mafia - $25 million
5) deadmau5 - $21 million
6) Avicii - $20 million
7) Afrojack - $18 million
8) Armin van Buuren - $17 million
9) Skrillex - $16 million
    Kaskade - $16 million
11) Steve Aoki - $14 million
12) DJ Pauly D - $13 million
      Diplo - $13 million

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