Forbes’ checklist of the ten highest-paid entertainers in 2022 contains filmmakers, musicians, TV creators and extra — collectively incomes about $1.35 billion — and, if there’s one theme, it is that longevity pays off massive time in present biz!!!

Topping the checklist is the rock band Genesis … bringing in a whopping $230M. The frontman Phil Collins and the remainder of the group offered their catalog again in September for a reported $300 million.

Forbes says the $70 mil distinction represents charges to managers, brokers and legal professionals. They get ya coming and going.

Coming in an in depth second is Sting, incomes $210M. Final yr, he additionally offered his music catalog and his band’s, The Police, and in addition received about $300M for all these hit songs.

Guess he paid his legal professionals greater than Genesis.

On the youthful aspect … 53-year-old TV/movie mogul Tyler Perry got here in at quantity 3, pocketing an estimated $175M from all his initiatives and his big studio in Atlanta.

Others within the prime 10 embody … “South Park” creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who got here in at quantity 4 forward of “The Simpsons” creators James L. Brooks and Matt Groening.

Brad Pitt is quantity 6 gathering $100M … simply forward of the Rolling Stones, who at their superior ages nonetheless earned $98 mil final yr off a European tour.

Again in Hollywood, one other man who’s been round perpetually, James Cameron — now one of many highest-grossing administrators of all occasions — earned at the least $95M from the “Avatar: The Means of the Water” flick.

Now for some youth — Taylor Swift, who’s the one lady within the prime 10, made $92 million to place her at quantity 9, and Dangerous Bunny collected round $88 million from his huge tour.