The tireless list-makers at Forbes have just come out with a new one — "Best-Paid Music Stars" — to make us feel even more poor than we already do in these trying economic times. The mag ranked hip hop stars separately, probably so that 50 Cent, Jay-Z, and Diddy, all of whom would have made this list, don't get all the shine again
1. The Police — $115 Million
2. Beyoncé Knowles — $80 Million
3. Toby Keith — $48 million
4. Justin Timberlake — $44 million
5. Madonna — $40 million
6. Celine Dion — $40 million
7. Rascal Flatts — $40 million
8. Van Halen — $35 million
9. Genesis — $31 million
10. Gwen Stefani — $27 million