Mariah Carey| $520 MILLION

Dubbed by the folks from the Guinness World of Records as the ‘Songbird Supreme’ — while the majority of people from the music scene calls her the ‘Queen of Christmas’ — Mariah Carey fearlessly tackled all obstacles in front of her with grace and with the help of her powerful voice. In show business, she is a known singer-songwriter who can reach five octaves with the aid of her famous whistle register, and she has easily become one of the top icons in the industry.

Carey is also a record producer, actress, director, television judge, and entrepreneur. Being the phenomenon that she is, over 200 million copies of her records have been sold worldwide, with the song “All I Want for Christmas is You” alone making her over $60 million in profit. She started off as a student working odd jobs in order to pay for electricity and rent. Today, Mariah Carey has definitely come a long way from being a beauty student in Manhattan.