Top 10 Highest Earning Musicians in the World in 2013

Music is defined as an art of combining vocal and instrumental sounds to produce beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion. Music was usually taken as a hobby but became a profession and a form of livelihood for some in the medieval ages. Since then it is considered as a proper profession and musicians can now be easily found. We all listen to music in our daily life. However one often wonder how much can one earn from music and who are the richest people (musicians) of our age. Here is a list of the top 10 richest musicians in 2013, which are rated with respect to their annual income.

10. Justin Timberlake

• Yearly Income: $24 million
• Music Genre: Pop, R&B
• Albums Sold: 80 million
• Famous Albums: Justified, Future Sex/Love sounds.
• Famous Movies: Bad Teacher, Social Network, In Time, Friends with Benefits

Justin Randall Timberlake is an American singer, actor, song-writer and business man. He started his career in child hood in TV shows like “Star Search” and “The Mickey Mouse Club”. He is also known as JT- Tennen.

9. Sean (Diddy) Combs

• Yearly Income: $29 million
• Music Genre: Hip-Hop, R&B, Rapper
• Albums Sold: 62 million
• Famous Albums: No way out, Forever, The saga Continues

Sean John Combs is American rapper and actor and is commonly known by his stage name P. Diddy. He has certified platinum 7 times and has named 3 Grammy and 2 MTV Video Music awards to himself.

8. 50 Cent

• Yearly Income: $35 million
• Music Genre: Rapper
• Albums Sold: 40 million
• Famous Albums: Guess who’s back, Get rich or Die Trying

Curtis James Jackson III is an American rapper who is commonly known by his stage name “50 Cent”. He started his life as a Drug Dealer at the age of twelve in 1980’s. He left the drug dealing career in 2000 after he was shot with 9 bullets and started perusing his career as a rapper. He was found by the famous English rapper Eminem who helped him sign to Interscope Records. And son he became highest selling rapper of his time.

7. Tim McGraw

• Yearly Income: $39 million
• Music Genre: Country
• Albums Sold: 180 million
• Famous Albums: Not a moment too soon, Live Like You Were Dying

Tim McGraw is an American settled singer, songwriter and actor. He is considered the eighth best-selling artist worldwide. He has won 52 awards from which 3 are Grammy awards, 14 Academy of country music awards, 11 CMA awards and 3 people choice awards. Taylor swift debut song “Tim McGraw” refers to him and his famous song “Cant’ Tell me Nothing”.

6. Celine Dion

• Yearly Income: $48 million
• Music Genre: Rock, R&B, classical
• Albums Sold: 200 million
• Famous Albums: De’ux, Unison, The Color of my Life

Celine Marie Claudette Dion is a Canadian singer. She emerged out to be a teen star in French-speaking. She started her career in 1990 when her manager (future husband) mortgaged his house for her first album “Unison”.

5. Elton John

• Yearly Income: $57 million
• Music Genre: Rock
• Albums Sold: 250 million
• Famous Albums: Candle in the wind, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Sir Elton Hercules John is an English Singer, composer, and an occasional actor. He won the no. 1 US album award 7 times in a row. He has been in the music industry for last 50 years. He is considered a royal musician and thus has performed on royal event like funeral of Princess Diana. He is also involved in fight against AIDS and has formed his organization “Elton John AIDS Foundation”. He received knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 for his services to “music and charity”.

4. Bon Jovi

• Yearly Income: $69 million
• Music Genre: Rock
• Albums Sold: 130 million
• Famous Albums: Slippery When Wet , New Jersey

Bon Jovi is an American band names after its lead vocalist Jon Bon Jovi (John Francis Bongiovi, Jr.) . It also consists of Richie Sambora the Guitarist, David Bryan as Keyboardist, and Tico Torres as the Drummer. They have a list of 35 million fans worldwide.

3. Madonna

• Yearly Income: $76 million
• Music Genre: Pop, Dance
• Albums Sold: 300 million
• Famous Albums: Ray of Light, Confession on a Dance Floor

Madonna is an American actress, singer, author, director, etc. She started her career in 1977 as a dancer and later moved to towards singing and acting.

2. Rolling Stones

• Yearly Income: $88 million
• Music Genre: Blues , Rock
  
• Albums Sold: 400 million
• Famous Albums: Sticky Fingers, Let it breathe, Beggars Banquet

Rolling Stone is an English Band formed in 1962. They started their career showing enthusiasm in rhythm and blues . The famous member of the band are “Brian Jones”, Ian Stewart, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

1. Jay-Z

• Yearly Income: $92 million
• Music Genre: Hip-Hop
• Albums Sold : 50 million
• Famous Albums: Reasonable Doubt (1996), The Blueprint (2001)

Shawn Knowles Carter, commonly known as Jay-Z, is an American singer, rapper and entrepreneur. He is the most famous and successful hip-hop musician of today.

So, who are your favourite musicians? Did they make it to this list? What more would you like to know about your favourite celebrities? Please let us know in the comments section below! Cheers 

What made Selena Gomez so Popular?

Selena Gomez is an American singer, actress and fashion designer. She is one of the most popular teenage stars. She is a role model for all the youngsters as they all grew up watching her on camera. She has been into this industry since childhood and grew up working on television. It’s like some people have known her forever. She is a powerful teenager in Hollywood and is best known for her role as Alex in the Wizards of Waverley Place.

Here we are sharing how Selena Gomez got popular and how she maintains her popularity. Have a look!

Selena Gomez and Disney

Selena Gomez started off her career at the age of 7 from a kid’s show Barney and his friends. Since then she started getting into some more TV show and movies. Later, she was discovered by Disney channel in 2004 when they were looking for some new talent in nationwide talent search. Disney gave her a break through and opened up doors of success for her. She began with a guest appearance on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and also on the second season of Hannah Montana. Disney got an overwhelming response from the audience for Selena’s performance and they offered her a recurring role. In 2007, Selena Gomez was casted as Alex Russo in Wizards of Waverly Place. This series became a successful hit and received an Emmy Award for being such great work. In 2009, the success of this series encouraged Disney to make a movie, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie.

Music Career

Selena Gomez has an awesome music career. She got a debut in 2008, when she recorded a cover of “Cruella de Vil” for DisneyMania 6. Later on, she recorded three songs for her movie Another Cindrella Story and a song for the animated movie Tinker Bell. Then, she recorded a single “One and the Same” for her movie Princess Protection Program as a duet with her best friend and co-star Demi-Lovato. Another feature film,The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, had four songs by Selena.

Hollywood records signed Selena in 2008 and she started working on her debut album, Kiss and Tell. She also has a cameo in Jonas Brother’s music video. Her great efforts have earned her a good name in the music industry as well. She is the heart throb of millions of youngsters out there!

Selena Gomez has her own pop band Selena Gomez and the Scene as she didn’t want to have solo albums. She became the lead singer of her band. Her first two albums went gold selling over 500,000 copies. In 2010, on the Teen Choice Awards, the band won Breakout Artist of the Year.

Dream Out Loud

Selena Gomez is a fashionista! She has her own fashion line “Dream out Loud” with back to back collections for all the kids and youngsters. She has her own style and her own dressing sense. By being a fashion designer, she has set her own trends and others are eagerly following her. Her fashion line is an absolute hit!

Selena Gomez Movies & TV Shows

Movies

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003), Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire (2005), Brain Zapped (2006), Another Cinderella Story (2008), Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Princess Protection Program (2009), Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009), Arthur and the Vengeance of Maltazard (2009), Ramona and Beezus (2010), Monte Carlo (2011), The Muppets (2011), Hotel Transylvania (2012), Spring Breakers (2013), Aftershock (2013), Behaving Badly (2013)

TV Shows

Barney & Friends (2003-2004), The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (2006), Hannah Montana (2007-2008), Sonny With a Chance (2009), The Suite Life on Deck (2009), Wizards of Waverly Place (2007-2012), Jonas Brothers: Living the DreaM (2008), Studio DC: Almost Live (2008), Disney Channel Games (2008), The Suite Life on Deck (2009), The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex (2013)

QUICK FACTS

• FULL NAME: Selena Marie Gomez
• OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress, Singer, Fashion Designer, Philanthropist
• BIRTH DATE: 22^nd June 1992
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Texas
• GENRES: Pop, Dance, Electro pop, Pop rock
• ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

Selena Gomez rules the hearts of millions of people. Her outgoing nature, her dedication and determination towards her career and her hard work is what keeps her at the top. All for now, hope you guys enjoyed!

Stay Blessed!

Top 10 Most Popular Businessmen in the World in 2013

In order to become a successful businessman, it is really important to learn from the examples who have proven themselves in the field of making money and leading a successful empire. Although there are a thousands of success storiesthat you can read to learn from their examples, it is highly recommended to read about the most popular businessmen in the world who are greatly followed by people all over the world for their work. Here are the top 10 most popular businessmen in the world according to the statistics revealed in 2013 with their net-worth released by Forbes this year.

Have a look!

1)Oprah Winfrey

Headquartered in: California, United States

Deals in: Media

Owner: The Oprah Winfrey Show, Chairwoman and CEO of Harpo Production, Chairwoman, CEO and CCO of Oprah Winfrey Network

Fortune: $2.7 billion

Not all billionaires born with money in hand. The voice of dictatorship, elegancy and as a visionary and leader behind her own, has been inspiring and promoting sense of philanthropy and education by using her influential success as a talk show host and media entrepreneur. The girl who ran away from home at the age of 13 due to poverty and harassments returned home at the age of 14, and with the support of her grandmother she stepped into anchoring, that has changed everything.

2)Bill Gates

Headquartered in: Washington, U.S

Deals in: Programming, entrepreneur

Owner: Microsoft, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CEO of Cascade investment, Chairman or Corbis

Fortune: $72.7 billion

The extravagant techie and a shrewd businessman have changed the vision of metrics and took it to an unbelievable level with its Microsoft invention. The inventor who the completely revolutionized the personal computer. The son of a lawyer and a dropped out student of Harvard University, who has been criticized for his business tactics is today’s world’s wealthiest person and an owner of world’s largest personal computer software company.

3)Steve Jobs

Headquartered in: California, U.S

Deals in: Software

Owner: Apple Incorporation, Co-founder and CEO of Pixar, NeXT Inc

Fortune: $10.2 billion

The world has lost not just a wonderful human being in 2011, but has also lost a gem, the Father of Digital revolutionary, a master of Innovation and a visionary due to metastatic tumor. He was a shrewd innovative genius who had brought a revolution to a personal computer moving on to smart phones to movies and music. He acknowledges his father who introduced him to the world of electronics since the age of 5.

4)Donald Trump

Headquartered in: New York, U.S

Deals in: Anchoring and Real Estate

Owner: Trump Organization, Trump Entertainment resorts, trump’s Plaza Association

Fortune: $3.2 billion

He has disclosed many stories which were hidden from everyone and brought on air via his hit NBC reality series, Apprentice. The clever host and a business tycoon is a son of a wealthy New York City real-estate developer. He actually redefines to the real estate that what is meant by luxury living by building his resorts.

5)Mitt Romney

Headquartered in: Massachusetts, U.S

Deals in: Business, Politics, Consultancy

Owner: Brain Capital

Fortune: $250 million

The man with the leadership qualities has been excelling in to all part of life whether it’s about convincing or consulting. The youngest child of automobile executive George W. Romney, decided not to walk on the grounds set by his father, but to move on to make a difference. He was the Republican Party’s nominee for President of U.S in 2012.

6)Warren Buffett

Headquartered in: Nebraska, U.S

Deals in: Investment

Owner: Berkshire Hathaway

Fortune: $53.5 billion

As a student of Ben Graham, who is considered as the father of value investing, he has completely indulged into tactics and with his eternal undying determination to be the best, he completely justified the teachings, which has landed him to be the most successful investor of 20^th century. The “Wizard of Omaha” is notable philanthropist giving away 99 percent of his wealth. He is one of the most influential investors of all time. If you need ten ways to turn bucks into millions you better read his tips.

7)Henry Ford

Headquartered in: Dearborn, Michigan, U.S

Deals in: Engineer and Businessman

Owner: Ford Motor

Fortune: $188.1 billion

The man who do not need any introduction, who is been visualizing that a consumerism is a key to peace will surely be never forgotten by the middle class American. Though Ford died in 1947 but he invented automobiles that many middle class could afford to buy even today. He is credit with “Fordism” due to revolutionizing the transportation and American industry.

8)S. Truett Cathy

Headquartered in: Georgia, U.S

Deals in: Fast Food chain

Owner: Chick-fil-A

Fortune: $4.2 billion

The taste that you will never forget and the eternal delicious mouth watering combinations that are dining over the shinny tables in his fast food restaurant Chick-fil-A in Atlanta are unbelievable. He was the one who introduce the chicken sandwich concept to the world.

9)Harry Gordon Selfridge

Headquartered in: London

Deals in: Departmental store

Owner: Selfridges

Fortune: $598 million

Harry Gordon Selfridge is the founder of London based departmental store Selfridges. Harry was born in America but moved to Britain as a retail magnate. As a youngster he used to sell newspapers but moved on to become one of the most respected and wealthy retail magnates of London.

10)Mark Zukerberg

Headquartered in: Menlo Park, California, U.S

Deals in: Computer programming

Owner: Facebook

Fortune:$ 13.3 billion

Mark is known to be one of the five cofounder of the mostly used social networking website of the world “Facebook”. He is also worlds 2^nd youngest self-made billionaire and his fortune equals $13.3 billion.  He has also been named amongst 100 most rich and influential people of the world.

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5 Modern Abandoned Cities in 2013

Modern abandoned cities were once the most functional and thriving cities of the world. All of these abandoned cities have an equally interesting story of their demise. Some were abandoned due to some disaster, natural calamity, human error or some esoteric reasons. Whatever the reason was, these once modern and lively cities have now turned into dead abandoned cities where everything feels haunted. Some cities appear to have frozen with all the things in their exact places while others have gone through complete destruction.

It is very strange how some cities are as still as a corpse while their neighboring cities are still full of bustling life. Whatever their cause of destruction is, you will surely be engrossed in their stories. Have a look!

1) Pripyat, Ukraine

Pripyat is a city in Northern Ukraine. It was founded on 4th February 1970, near Pripyat River with a population of 49,360. It is the ninth nuclear city in Soviet Union. The city is now vacant and haunted due to the nuclear blast of 26th April 1986. This incident is commonly known as Chernobyl disaster.

An explosion occurred at the reactor of nuclear power station at Chernobyl. It was considered as the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy production.  The result of explosion was that the radiations spread throughout the city and caused thousands of deaths despite being evacuated within 60 hours of explosion.

Pripyat was once a lively city with a great amusement park and high-rise buildings. Now, the city has turned into a haunted place with vegetation and animals all over the place. It looks like the city has frozen for ages.

2) Humberstone and Santa Laura, Chile

Humberstone is a city located in northern Chile which was renamed after the  British mine manager. In 1862, it was the nitrate mining center of La Palma. Humberstone and Santa Laura had huge reserves of nitrate which is the main ingredient of fertilizers.

The reason behind the evacuation of the city is not any calamity or disaster but it it the availability of substitute of nitrate. When the need of mined nitrate ended, people started moving out of the city leaving behind their homes, offices and industries.

In 1970, the government of Chile declared both of the towns as national monuments. And in 2005, they were declared World Heritage Sites by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

3) Some parts of Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is the most populated city in the state of Michigan. However, it has a few districts which are completely abandoned while other parts are fully functional. The Motor City is one good example. It is called so because of being the world’s center of automotive industry in the earlier times. The city expanded with leaps and bounds all because of Henry Ford’s assembly line of cars and trucks. Their cheap production in the area caused an increase in the district’s living standards.

Since the district’s success was based on the manufacturing of automobile, its received a decline in its sales when the other manufacturers came in the market. With the decrease in employment rates and low income generation in the area, the residents started migrating thereby abandoning another district.

4) Hashima Island, Japan

Hashima Island is only a 15-acre outcropping of rock off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan. However, the island was of great importance as being a major coal mining center for almost a century. Therefore, Mitsubishi build a housing for its workers and provided all the basic facilities for its workers on the island and brought life to the vacant island. This life for the island was very short lived.

In January 1974, Mitsubishi announced the closing of coal mine due to petroleum replacing coal as the world’s most preferable energy source thereby evacuating the once thriving island. The building and people’s belongings still depict the existence of life in the island.

5) Centralia, Pennsylvania

Centralia, Penn. was a boomtown established on 1866 with a population of almost 3000 people. The town had churches, stores, hotels and buildings which were all developed out of the profits of coal mines. These coal mines are the main reason behind the town’s destruction.

In 1962, the city workers accidentally lit a vein of anthracite coal which caused the burning of large masses of underground coal. The city tried for a years to get rid of the fire but all the efforts went in vain. The government strategies required a huge investment so they didn’t opt for that either. In the end, the only solution was to evacuate the town so the government provided homes to all the Centralia’s residents and left the town deserted.

These are the stories behind the abandoned cities of the world. All for now!

Stay Blessed!