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TAYLOR SWIFT
Becomes a billionaire on back of global tour
Pop megastar Taylor Swift has achieved billionaire status thanks to her record-breaking Eras Tour.
According to a new report by Bloomberg, which estimated the value of her multiple Grammy Awardwinning music catalogue, five homes and earnings from streaming deals, music sales, concert tickets and merchandise, the singer-songwriter’s net worth has now surpassed $1bn (£824m).
Taylor, 33, joins the prestigious ten-digit club alongside fellow billionaires including Kim Kardashian and Oprah Winfrey.
The Eras world tour, which ends next November, features music from the ten albums she has released in the past 17 years. A film of the tour took almost $165m in US cinemas in its first two weeks.