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According to Forbes' Highest-Paid Women in Music list for 2016, 26-year-old US Pop star Taylor Swift is the richest female musician. Swift amassed earnings of 170 million US dollars (£137.8m) over the past year. Her earnings are mainly due to her 1989 World Tour raking in a quarter of a billion dollars. She also has lucrative endorsement deals with brands such as Diet Coke, Apple and more. British singer Adele was second on the list, with 80.5 million US dollars (£65.2 million). Forbes estimated the pre-tax income of personalities from June 1 2015 through to June 1 2016 from a variety of sources, including data from Pollstar, Nielsen and the Recording Industry Association of America, as well as interviews with managers, lawyers and some of the stars themselves. See the full list as you continue. Full List Of Top Earning Female Musicians for 2016 1. Taylor Swift - $170m (£137.8m) 2. Adele - $80.5m (£65.2m) 3. Madonna - $76.5m (£62m) 4. Rihanna - $75m (£60.8m)

Until E! news confirms it, this is probably not true. Anyway, x17online.com claims a source exclusively revealed to them that Khloe Kardashian, 32, is expecting a baby with boyfriend Tristan Thompson, 25, and she's "planning to move to Cleveland to be closer to her man during the pregnancy." Read the report below... "We caught the reality star arriving back in LA this morning, wearing an oversized sweatshirt (to hide the beginnings of a baby bump?). And get this -- her NBA star beau plans on flying into town this weekend to ask Kris Jenner for Khloe's hand in marriage! True to form, though, the momager knows all about the plan and has already purchased a Range Rover for Thompson as a "welcome to the family" gift." "Our source tells us: "Khloe and Kris want everything done correctly. They don't want this to look like an accident and Khloe really wants to show the world that Tristan is her man. She w

Until E! news confirms it, this is probably not true. Anyway, x17online.com claims a source exclusively revealed to them that Khloe Kardashian, 32, is expecting a baby with boyfriend Tristan Thompson, 25, and she's "planning to move to Cleveland to be closer to her man during the pregnancy." Read the report below... "We caught the reality star arriving back in LA this morning, wearing an oversized sweatshirt (to hide the beginnings of a baby bump?). And get this -- her NBA star beau plans on flying into town this weekend to ask Kris Jenner for Khloe's hand in marriage! True to form, though, the momager knows all about the plan and has already purchased a Range Rover for Thompson as a "welcome to the family" gift." "Our source tells us: "Khloe and Kris want everything done correctly. They don't want this to look like an accident and Khloe really wants to show the world that Tristan is her man. She w

Until E! news confirms it, this is probably not true. Anyway, x17online.com claims a source exclusively revealed to them that Khloe Kardashian, 32, is expecting a baby with boyfriend Tristan Thompson, 25, and she's "planning to move to Cleveland to be closer to her man during the pregnancy." Read the report below... "We caught the reality star arriving back in LA this morning, wearing an oversized sweatshirt (to hide the beginnings of a baby bump?). And get this -- her NBA star beau plans on flying into town this weekend to ask Kris Jenner for Khloe's hand in marriage! True to form, though, the momager knows all about the plan and has already purchased a Range Rover for Thompson as a "welcome to the family" gift." "Our source tells us: "Khloe and Kris want everything done correctly. They don't want this to look like an accident and Khloe really wants to show the world that Tristan is her man. She w

Until E! news confirms it, this is probably not true. Anyway, x17online.com claims a source exclusively revealed to them that Khloe Kardashian, 32, is expecting a baby with boyfriend Tristan Thompson, 25, and she's "planning to move to Cleveland to be closer to her man during the pregnancy." Read the report below... "We caught the reality star arriving back in LA this morning, wearing an oversized sweatshirt (to hide the beginnings of a baby bump?). And get this -- her NBA star beau plans on flying into town this weekend to ask Kris Jenner for Khloe's hand in marriage! True to form, though, the momager knows all about the plan and has already purchased a Range Rover for Thompson as a "welcome to the family" gift." "Our source tells us: "Khloe and Kris want everything done correctly. They don't want this to look like an accident and Khloe really wants to show the world that Tristan is her man. She w

Until E! news confirms it, this is probably not true. Anyway, x17online.com claims a source exclusively revealed to them that Khloe Kardashian, 32, is expecting a baby with boyfriend Tristan Thompson, 25, and she's "planning to move to Cleveland to be closer to her man during the pregnancy." Read the report below... "We caught the reality star arriving back in LA this morning, wearing an oversized sweatshirt (to hide the beginnings of a baby bump?). And get this -- her NBA star beau plans on flying into town this weekend to ask Kris Jenner for Khloe's hand in marriage! True to form, though, the momager knows all about the plan and has already purchased a Range Rover for Thompson as a "welcome to the family" gift." "Our source tells us: "Khloe and Kris want everything done correctly. They don't want this to look like an accident and Khloe really wants to show the world that Tristan is her man. She w

Until E! news confirms it, this is probably not true. Anyway, x17online.com claims a source exclusively revealed to them that Khloe Kardashian, 32, is expecting a baby with boyfriend Tristan Thompson, 25, and she's "planning to move to Cleveland to be closer to her man during the pregnancy." Read the report below... "We caught the reality star arriving back in LA this morning, wearing an oversized sweatshirt (to hide the beginnings of a baby bump?). And get this -- her NBA star beau plans on flying into town this weekend to ask Kris Jenner for Khloe's hand in marriage! True to form, though, the momager knows all about the plan and has already purchased a Range Rover for Thompson as a "welcome to the family" gift." "Our source tells us: "Khloe and Kris want everything done correctly. They don't want this to look like an accident and Khloe really wants to show the world that Tristan is her man. She w

US celebrity news website claims Khloe Kardashian is pregnant with Tristan Thompson's baby Until E! news confirms it, this is probably not true. Anyway, x17online.com claims a source exclusively revealed to them that Khloe Kardashian, 32, is expecting a baby with boyfriend Tristan Thompson, 25, and she's "planning to move to Cleveland to be closer to her man during the pregnancy." Read the report below... "We caught the reality star arriving back in LA this morning, wearing an oversized sweatshirt (to hide the beginnings of a baby bump?). And get this -- her NBA star beau plans on flying into town this weekend to ask Kris Jenner for Khloe's hand in marriage! True to form, though, the momager knows all about the plan and has already purchased a Range Rover for Thompson as a "welcome to the family" gift." "Our source tells us: "Khloe and Kris want everything done correctly. They don't want this to

Hulk Hogan accepted a $31 million settlement from Gawker. "As with any negotiation for resolution, all parties have agreed it is time to move on," David Houston, an attorney for the wrestler said in a statement. Denton issued a lengthy statement online acknowledging the settlement and calling it "unpalatable. For those who haven't been following the case closely, Hulk Hogan sued Gawker for $100 million back in 2012 and accused the website of invasion of privacy and after the website posted 101 seconds of a sex tape featuring the wrestling icon and his ex Heather Clem. Hulk asked them to take the video down but they refused. According to E! reports: The former pro wrestler was awarded $115 million in his legal case against Gawker, a jury reached a verdict in regards to punitive damages. On Monday afternoon, Gawker Media was hit with $15 million in punitive damages while its founder Nick Denton will have to personally pay $10 million. The dec

Kannywood actress, Rahama Sadua who was invited to the US by international singer, Akon and movie director, Jeta Amata, after she was banned for featuring in a romantic music video was pictured with the Senegalese singer among others at the movie screening of ‘Road To Redemption’ in LA yesterday. See more photos after the cut…

Good times are here for upcoming musicians in Nigeria, as naijanextrated.com goes live. Naijanextrated.com is a music portal dedicated to the discovery, nurturing and promotion of upcoming artistes in the country. The site allows you to create your own profile page and upload your recorded songs, so they can be heard by people across the globe, which can also leave comments or communicate with you via the contact channels on your profile. Every month, the song with the highest amount of likes, wins a hundred thousand and the chance to perform at a premium event happening the next month. As part of its drive to discover and promote upcoming musicians, naijanextrated.com in conjunction with Ecobank, will soon be embarking on a 13 campus music tour, which will result in one lucky Nigerian youth, winning a million Naira and a duet/video with one of Nigeria’s biggest music act Visit www.naijanextrated.com today, and start your musical journey naijanextrated (Face

Stunning BTS Photos of Tiwa Savage Behind the scene photos of Tiwa Savage, from a shoot for her new music video. See more after the cut....  

h Facebook on Wednesday turned in yet another stellar earnings report that topped analysts’ estimates across the board. For the third quarter ending September 30, the world’s largest social network reported revenue of $7.01 billion with earnings per share of $1.09 versus analyst estimates of $6.92 billion and $0.97 in revenue and profit, respectively. Revenue was up 56 percent compared to the $4.5 billion Facebook earned in the same period a year ago. As The Wall Street Journal highlights , this is the sixth straight quarter in which Facebook has topped analysts’ expectations. Facebook said it now has 1.79 billion monthly active users, up from 1.71 billion last quarter. That’s a mind-boggling figure when you consider that the global population sits somewhere around the 7.4 billion mark meaning nearly one in four people on the planet are now using Facebook. Facebook’s mobile advertising unit continues to serve as the social network’s cash cow. Advertising

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has disclosed that the Federal government may sell the three refineries located in Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt after they have been fixed and dimmed operationally efficient. Kachikwu disclosed this while speaking to state house correspondents in Abuja: He said: “The feeling of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) and the President is that we should first get the refineries to be efficient before we talk about privatisation, otherwise we will be selling scraps. In their present state nobody is going to offer you serious money. A huge amount of investment is going into this." The minister further explained that apart from this, there were other issues that could determine the final decision of the government on the refineries; the labour issues, for example, are some of the issues that must be addressed if such proposal would sail through. He noted that the government has thought out other possible

Wole Soyinka says he will tear up his green card if Trump wins Wole Soyinka, the Nobel literature laureate who currently lives in the US and works as a scholar-in-residence at New York University’s Institute of African American Affairs told students at Oxford University that if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States next week, he will leave the country. While giving the seminar to the college students, he said: “If in the unlikely event he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say that all green-card holders must reapply to come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for that.” “The moment they announce his victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up." Source: The Guardian

Man who collected R40,000 from Oscar Pistorius to wipe off his criminal conviction bags 4 years sentence Tshifhiwa Radzhadzhi, the conman who promised to wipe off the criminal conviction of South African Paralympain, Oscar Pistorius for R40,000 has been sentenced to four years in prison. According to Sowetan, the authorities reported that the 33 year old who posed as a prosecutor was arrested in a sting operation on March 18, while receiving the money from Pistorius. Radzhadzhi offered to make the case ‘disappear’ but got busted after the athlete who shot and killed  his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, alerted the police. Speaking to Pressmen on Tuesday, the spokesman of  Directorate of Priority Crimes Investigation, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Netshiunda said that Radzhadzhi was sentenced to four years in prison at the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Pretoria on Monday, after being convicted of corruption and impersonating a prosecutor

It's been two years since Intel released their first octa-core desktop processor, the Haswell-E based Core i7-5960X , which until just recently was the most powerful consumer grade processor available. That title now belongs to the equally impressive but even more expensive 10-core Core i7-6950X . Out of the box, the 6950X is 20 to 30% faster than the Core i7-5960X in applications that can use those extra cores, however at $1650 it's also absurdly expensive. Granted most would consider $1000+ an unreasonable amount of money to pay for a desktop processor -- but for some, the price to pay for these isn’t as important as the performance they deliver. Thanks to its 8-core design aided by Hyper-Threading, the 5960X is a multi-threading monster, and a popular choice for those doing a lot of video editing, particularly with 4K content. But here's the thing. Before Intel graced us with the 8-core i7-5960X, there were server-grade 8-core Xeon processors o