Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce Getty Photos(2)
It’s protected to say Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce might afford to hire out (a number of) eating places every single day for the remainder of their relationship.
Swift and Kelce broke the web in September 2023 after they confirmed their romance by the Grammy winner watching Kansas Metropolis Chiefs play the Chicago Bears at Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri.
Since then, followers (and haters) have debated who’s extra well-known — one of many largest names in music and probably the most profitable tight ends in NFL historical past — and who has more cash within the financial institution.
“I’m actually gonna begin preventing sports activities folks saying taylor is with travis for pr actually what pr does she want?? she’s the largest artist on the planet. she doesn’t want him title or his cash. she ate ranch and ketchup and now heinz is mixing ranch and ketchup like please stfu,” a fan declared, referring to Heinz’s restricted version “Ketchup and Seemingly Ranch” sauce.
Whereas the largest (and most blatant) takeaway is each Kelce and Swift are very profitable — and really wealthy — Us is taking a better take a look at the numbers:
Soccer vs. Music
Kelce initially signed a four-year $3,126,304 contract with Chiefs, which included a $703,304 signing bonus, in 2013. 4 years later, Kelce’s contract was prolonged, and he inked a powerful five-year $46,842,000 contract with the staff and a $10,000,000 signing bonus.
For the 2023 season, Kelce’s wage was $11,250,000. He then signed a two-year extension, price $34.25 million, in April 2024, which cemented his spot in Kansas Metropolis by the tip of the 2027 season. He earned $17 million assured in 2024, which made him the highest-paid tight finish within the NFL.
Swift, for her half, kicked off The Eras Tour in March 2023. In April 2024, Forbes famous that Swift made “$190 million post-tax earnings” from her concert events.
Taylor Swift began writing songs about love and breakups within the early 2000s, however her expertise was quickly acknowledged by music executives who knew she was the true deal. From releasing her first report in 2006 to gracing levels all around the world this star has earned her place within the Hollywood A-list music scene. […]
In October 2023, Swift reached billionaire standing, in response to a report from Bloomberg Information Evaluation. Bloomberg famous on the time that Swift’s music catalog is price an estimated $400 million. The outlet reported that she made an estimated $370 million in live performance gross sales and merchandise, $120 million in streaming earnings from Spotify and YouTube and $80 million in royalties from her music gross sales on the time.
Moreover, Swift’s eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Division, turned the best-selling album of 2024 inside 48 hours of its April launch. The album has since damaged a number of gross sales and streaming information, incomes the title of the quickest album to surpass 1 billion world album streams in historical past.
Social Media and Endorsement Offers
Kelce solely boasts 6.8 million Instagram followers to Swift’s greater than 283 million followers. Whereas the numbers aren’t precisely comparable, Kelce could immediately revenue off of his profile through Instagram adverts extra usually. In 2023, it was reported that the soccer star makes $5 million yearly on endorsements with a number of manufacturers, together with Nike, T-Cell, Outdated Spice, McDonald’s, Walgreens, Dick’s Sporting Items, Bud Mild, Pfizer and extra. It’s doubtless his price has solely gone up in 2024.
Kelce additionally cohosts a podcast with brother Jason Kelce titled “New Heights,” which earns the athletes an estimated $1 to 2 million in yearly income. In line with Spotify, inquiries for “Travis Kelce” elevated by greater than 1,300 % on the streaming service after Swift’s preliminary attendance on the Chiefs sport.
In August 2024, the brothers signed a deal price greater than $100 million with the podcast studio Wondery for the rights to “New Heights.” Per the deal, Wondery was given world distribution of the podcast, in addition to the rights to earlier episodes, ad-sales illustration and the suitable to launch worldwide variations of the podcast, in response to The Hollywood Reporter.
Dow Jones’ “conservative” estimate for the way a lot Swift — who has partnerships with Capital One, Coca-Cola, Goal and Apple — will make in endorsements in 2023 is $25 million.
Travis Kelce hasn’t shied away from giving girlfriend Taylor Swift her flowers on his podcast. The couple’s romance started shortly after the primary time Travis talked about the pop star on the “New Heights” podcast, which he cohosts with brother Jason Kelce. In July 2023, Travis recalled how he noticed Swift carry out on the Arrowhead Stadium […]
Merch
After Swift went to the Chiefs sport, Travis’ No. 87 jersey noticed a 400 % spike in gross sales through the Fanatics community of web sites, together with NFLShop.com. In line with stories, NFL gamers earn a % of the earnings from their jersey gross sales. Travis additionally owns a clothes model referred to as Tru Kolors Model and “New Heights” sells merch, which frequently sells out.
Swift, for her half, sells out of merchandise recurrently at her concert events and on-line, with cities opening up the stadium days earlier than her present to offer followers an opportunity to safe T-shirts, sweatshirts, limited-edition CDs (sure, Swift has followers shopping for CDs), vinyls and extra. In October 2023, Bloomberg reported that Swift made $370 million in live performance gross sales and merchandise.
TV and Movie
Along with music, Swift has acted in a number of TV reveals and films through the years, reminiscent of New Woman, The Lorax, The Giver and Cats. Whereas Kelce made his appearing debut within the 2020 sequence Moonbase 8, the athlete booked his first main function in Could 2024 by becoming a member of the solid of Ryan Murphy’s Grotesquerie. Followers obtained their first glimpse at Kelce’s undisclosed function within the present’s August 2024 teaser, one month forward of its launch.
Travis can also be set to make his sport present debut because the host of Prime Video’s revamped model of Are You Smarter Than a fifth Grader?, titled Are You Smarter Than a Superstar?, which premieres in October 2024.
Travis’ dream of showing within the sequel to 1996’s Completely happy Gilmore will quickly come true, as star Adam Sandler confirmed that Travis will make a cameo within the movie’s sequel throughout an August 2024 look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.
