Coldplay 'most influential British celebrities' in new Forbes list- last updated Wed 26 Jun 2013 Entertainment

 

 

Coldplay are the highest ranked Brits on an annual global celebrity power list - as top-selling singer Adele plummets from the top 100 entirely.

 

The band are ranked at number 14 in the newly published Forbes list of the world's most powerful celebrities, three places above X Factor supremo Simon Cowell.

 

Adele won an Oscar but with no tour has dropped off the list. Adele won an Oscar but with no tour has dropped off the list. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire

Oprah Winfrey returns to the top of the list for the first time in three years, with last year's chart-topper Jennifer Lopez plunging down to number 12.

 

Adele made her debut in the Forbes list - based on money and fame - in 2012 at 24, but this year the singer fails to make an appearance. Other stars who have disappeared from the top 100 this year - based on the past 12 months - include Britney Spears and Johnny Depp, who will soon be seen in his new film The Lone Ranger.

 

Explaining Adele's absence from the list. Forbes magazine said: “Adele didn't have a tour in our time frame. For better or worse, tours are now the main source of income for musicians. Adele earned an Oscar for Skyfall, her first James Bond theme song, but with only an estimated $30 million (£19.5 million) in earnings, it wasn't enough to land her on this year's Celebrity 100."

 

Coldplay did not make the list last year and last featured in 2010 when they were ranked at just number 35.

 

British Fifty Shades Of Grey writer E.L. James is at number 42 after her books proved a phenomenal success shifting 70 million copies around the world.

 

The list was compiled by looking at estimated the earnings of the celebrities in the past year - up to this month - and how often each of the figures are named in print and on TV.

 

Top ten of the Forbes Celebrity 100:

Oprah Winfrey

Lady Gaga

Steven Spielberg

Beyonce Knowles

Madonna

Taylor Swift

Bon Jovi

Roger Federer

Justin Bieber

Ellen DeGeneres

 

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Cool :D

Look how hard Will is trying to be influential in that photo!

Look how hard Will is trying to be influential in that photo!

 

 

Yep, he is full of WILL power. :P

I can't stop laughing oh my god Will

They made it to quite a few:

 

Forbes Lists

#14 Celebrity 100

 

#20 in Money

#50 in TV/Radio

#37 in Press

#11 in Social

#41 in Marketability

#35 in 2010

 

The British pop-rockers have long been compared to Irish supergroup U2, and this year Coldplay out-earned its forebearers on the strength of a world tour that pulled in more than $3 million per city. The band has ascended the ranks of our Celebrity 100 list with a little help from some superstar friends: frontman Chris Martin and his wife Gwyneth Paltrow (No. 71) are often spotted with Beyoncé (No. 4) and Jay-Z (No. 32), who's been known to join Coldplay onstage.

 

link: http://www.forbes.com/profile/coldplay/

 

Also, GP is at #71 on the celeb 100...

Chris and Gwyneth earned a lot of money this year. Weren't they on the Sunday Times Rich List too?

Taylor Swift at no. 6? :\

Taylor Swift at no. 6? :\

 

 

 

I know. This is so sad to me.

Dang they beat Tiger Woods and LeBron James.