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Rihanna, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift have made Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women list.
Work hitmaker, Rihanna, became a dollar billionaire earlier this year when the business bible reported that the 33-year-old star was estimated to be worth a whopping $1.7-billion. This was thanks to her hugely popular music career as well as her Fenty fashion and beauty brands, and she is now ranked at number 68.
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Sitting at number 76 is Beyoncé. The R&B superstar's co-headlining stadium run with her husband Jay-Z, On The Run II tour, made around $5-million per gig, totalling $250-million for the jaunt. The 40-year-old music star also has a sizeable income from her Ivy Park line with Adidas.
Elsewhere, Taylor, 31, is number 78 this year, thanks to her record-breaking music career, having recently smashed a Billboard Hot 100 record held for 50 years by Don Mclean's American Pie.
The Shake It Off hitmaker dethroned the 76-year-old music legend when she broke his record for the longest Number One on the U.S. chart with the 10-minute version of All Too Well from Red (Taylor’s Version).
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey, 67, was named the top female sitting at number 23.
Actress-and-producer Reese Witherspoon, 45, filmmaker and ARRAY film collective founder Ava DuVernay, 49, and tennis ace Serena Williams, 40, also made the annual list, which includes CEOs, entrepreneurs, and politicians, as well as media personalities and entertainers.
An abridged list of the Forbes list is:
Number 23: Oprah Winfrey
Number 68: Rihanna
Number 74: Reese Witherspoon
Number 76: Beyoncé
Number 78: Taylor Swift
Number 80: Ava DuVernay
Number 85: Serena Williams
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