AC/DC were in second place with $114m (£74.5m) followed by Beyonce Knowles on $87m (£56.8m). Bruce Springsteen was fourth on the list with $70m (£45.7m).
One of the few relatively youthful acts on the list was Lady Gaga, who has amassed $62m (£40.5m) in the year to date, according to the website. The singer has been performing the Monster Ball tour around the world. Madonna demonstrated that she remains a major player in the music industry by coming in at eighth place, while the British band Coldplay finished in joint 10th alongside the Black Eyed Peas.
Classical News - Highlights of the current Proms season, now in its 115th year, include performances by Bryn Terfel and Placido Domingo. Organisers have also announced the first Prom for deaf concertgoers. The Sondheim At 80 concert, on 31 July, will feature a sign language expert interpreting lyrics from Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music and Sunday In The Park With George.
On 5 September, The Last Night of the Proms 1910 will be recreated, using the same programme selected by conductor and Proms' founder Henry Wood a century ago. On Saturday 24 July, there will be a Doctor Who prom - hosted by stars Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill - featuring music from the show. Other performers at the 59-day festival include jazz singer Jamie Cullum.
Let The Sun Shine In - The Broadway production of Hair has become the first hit musical to appear at a UK festival. The 2009 remake of the production is currently being shown in London's West End, but the cast performed a 30-minute extract at the Latitude festival in Suffolk on Sunday.
The musical is about long-haired hippies living in New York in the 1960s, who get naked, take drugs and protest against the Vietnam War. "When you see it, you realise the world is still trying to achieve the same things it was then," says Gavin Creel, who plays the show's main character Claude. "True freedom of expression, ending war, total equality for all, these themes are universal and I think people respond now more than ever, seeing that we haven't progressed all that much in over 40 years."
(Jim Evans)
