Miley Cyrus has literally twerked her way to the top. Despite a public shunning from her risque MTV Video Music Awards performance with Robin Thicke in August, scandalous stage antics have been credited with earning the pop starlet $76.5million in 2013, according to Parade’s annual salary survey, What People Earn.
Downloads of her single Wrecking Ball shot up 124 percent following the outlandish appearance, allowing the song to sell more than three million copies in the U.S. alone.
The former Disney pin-up’s earnings do not include any of the revenue she is set to earn from her international Bangerz tour, which is her fourth concert series.
THE TOP EARNERS OF 2013
- Tyler Perry, 44 – $78 million
- Miley Cyrus, 21 – $76.5 million
- Sandra Bullock, 49 – $63 million
- Justin Timberlake, 33 – $63 million
- Chris Hemsworth, 30 – $58 million
- Beyonce, 32 – $57 million
- E.L. James, 51 – $51.7 million
- Peyton Manning, 38 – $43 million
- Bruno Mars, 28 – $38 million
- Steve Harvey, 57 – $30 million
- Daniel Radcliffe, 24 – $17 million
- Matthew McConaughey, 44 – $19 million
- Michael Strahan, 42 – $9 million
- Russell Wilson, 25 – $1.8 million
- Liam Hemsworth, 24 – $1.75 million
- Joe Biden, 71 – $230,000
- Juan Pablo Galavis, 32 – $150,000