Most of all during the past year earned tennis player Maria Sharapova topped the Forbes ranking of the stars of show-business and sport 2016 with $21.9 million Doping scandal has no effect on the income of athletes, although giants such as TAG Heuer, Porsche and American Express and tore with her advertising contracts.
On the second place of a rating there is Grigory Leps, previously took the award MUZ-TV for the best duet with Ani Lorak. Leps for the year earned $9 million, and although a musician by income lost to the leader of group “Leningrad” Sergey Shnurov who has earned $11 million and was in third place, he still turned out to be more interesting media and audiences, for which he received additional points and second place.
Fourth place in the rating stars took Philip. Performer for the year was $7.6 million and in the spring went on tour with a show called “I”, in which he is accompanied by more than 150 artists. The top five hockey player Alexander Ovechkin. Despite not being the most successful in sporting terms, the year — athlete with his team was eliminated from the Stanley Cup — hockey player earned $12.1 million, which allowed him the income to beat all the leaders of the rating, except for Sharapova.
Sixth place was only in top 10 ranking model — Natalia Vodianova. The girl earned for the year of $7 million, having to appear in advertising campaigns for Prada, Stella McCartney, Calvin Klein, Guerlain and Miss Sixty and have five children. Seventh, eighth and ninth place was shared by musicians Sergey Lazarev ($1.3 million), new to the rankings is 22-year-old Egor Krid (us$3.6), released 2015 album “the Bachelor” and Zemfira ($6 million). Closes the top ten of the rating of Evgeni Malkin, the athlete earned for the year of $9.9 million
In the new Forbes ranking of all six newcomers. Except creed, it debyutiroval boxer Sergey Kovalev (33rd place, $2 million). According to the BoxRec website, he is considered the best Russian professional boxer at the moment. The rating also turned out to be two stars of the project “House 2” Ksenia Borodina (24th place, $0.8 million), which opened its own beauty salon and restaurant, and Olga Buzova (32nd place, $0.8 million). To the list first entered the singer Pelageya (42nd place, $0.9 million). The latest newcomer to the ranking was the racer of “Formula 1” Daniel Quat 47th place, $1 million), who plays in the team “Toro Rosso”.
Place in the ranking of the participants was ensured by three factors: income for the year, media attention and interest that the star causes the audience online.
