Lady Gaga Is The World’s Richest Celebrity!

Controversial US singer, Lady Gaga a.k.a The Queen Monster according to Forbes.com is currently the richest and most powerful celebrity at the moment, ranking above all actors, athletes, actresses, writers and musicians. Forbes.com claims that Lady Gaga may soon be richer than the world’s richest moguls, Carlos Slim and Bill Gates. The website is the web version of the popular magazine well known for evaluating the world’s ‘who is who’.

Just this May, Lady Gaga was ranked at US $90Million richer by the same magazine. The statistics which run from May 2010 to May 2011 were #1 Celebrity out of 100, #8 in Money, #3 in TV/Radio features, #2 in the Press, #1 in Social relevance, #1 in Web and as the #7 most powerful woman in the world.
Gaga is the top earner not just because of the $90 million she earned with a monster tour, but also because of her 32 million Facebook fans and 10 million Twitter followers who she has christened ‘Little Monsters‘ who helped move 1 million digital downloads of her recent single ‘Born This Way’ in only five days.
Below is the Top 20 Celebrity list:
1st          Lady Gaga
2nd        Oprah Winfrey
3rd         Justin Bieber
4th         U2
5th         Elton John
6th         Tiger Woods
7th         Taylor Swift
8th         Bon Jovi
9th         Simon Cowell
10th       LeBron James
11th       Angelina Jolie
12th       Katy Perry
13th       Johnny Depp
14th       Kobe Bryant
15th       Leonardo Dicaprio
16th       Black Eyed Peas
17th       Donald Trump
18th       Dr. Phil McGraw
19th       Tyler Perry
20th       Paul McCartney