Unsurprisingly, Madonna leads all other musicians when it comes to money. Now, Billboard’s list only takes into consideration the money an artist earns directly from their music (digital music sales, physical music sales, touring) and not an artist’s other projects (merchandising, clothing lines, perfume, etc). If this was taken into consideration, Madonna’s tally would be around $100 million, which is pretty normal for her during a touring year.

Interestingly, Billboard points out, that 93.5% of her music earning total comes from touring (as opposed to physical and digital sales). This is the case with most artists on the list (touring is where the money’s at).

One big exception is Adele. Ah, yes, Adele. Her two-year old album ’21′ is still finding new fans and has so-far sold a now unheard of 4 million physical units in the U.S. Billboard points out that Adele does this without any touring or any kind of promotion for that matter. Adele ranks #11 on the list. Bruce Springsteen is #2.

P.S.- Billboard made such a cheesy graphic of Madonna on a $100 bill, I just had to post it.

Jump in to see Madonna’s tally as well as a link to the entire top 40 list.