{"id":4775,"date":"2015-08-26T11:27:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=4775"},"modified":"2015-08-26T11:27:50","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:27:50","slug":"calvin-harris-is-the-worlds-highest-paid-dj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/calvin-harris-is-the-worlds-highest-paid-dj\/","title":{"rendered":"Calvin Harris is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest paid DJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be the lucky few to earn a decent living from making music, you might want to grab your laptop. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/electronic-cash-kings\/\">Forbes magazine<\/a>, Calvin Harris earned $66 million (around \u00a342 million) last year, making him the world\u2019s richest DJ.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 earnings came from album and single sales, DJ sets and endorsements from the likes of Giorgio Armani. It marks a remarkable rise for the Scottish DJ, who once worked as a shelf-stacker. Now, he earns millions and goes out with Taylor Swift; together, they earned $146 million (\u00a393.4 million) last year.<\/p>\n<p>Life isn\u2019t too shabby for other popular DJs either. The second highest earning DJ on Forbes\u2019 list is David Guetta, who earned a relatively paltry $37 million (although we\u2019re sure he doesn\u2019t mind). Meanwhile, Tiesto earned $36 million, with Skrillex and Steve Aoki pulling in $24 million each. Swedish DJ Avicii came 6<sup>th<\/sup> with a respectable $19 million.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether, the top 10 DJs in the world earned $274 million last year, which is a 2.5% increase on the year before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be the lucky few to earn a decent living from making music, you might want to grab your laptop. According to Forbes magazine, Calvin Harris earned $66 million (around \u00a342 million) last year, making him the world\u2019s richest DJ. Harris\u2019 earnings came from album and single &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4777,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions\/4777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}