Dolly Parton – $500 million
Greatest Hits: 9 to 5, Jolene, I Will Always Love You
Dolly Parton has recorded countless albums and is one of the most beloved and successful artists in America and the world at large. While Whitney Houston’s cover of her song, I Will Always Love You is perhaps more iconic than Parton’s original, Parton has proved to be a timeless songwriter. She began writing music at the tender age of 7, as revealed in one of her most telling interviews. She loves to write everything from short poems to sweeping albums. She has always been incredibly religious, something that she gained from her inspiring Appalachian Mountains upbringing.
Dolly Parton
Tom Petty – $95 million
Greatest Hits: Don’t Do Me Like That, Refugee, Here Comes My Girl
Tom Petty is a talented guitarist and top-selling performer. She met Elvis Presley when he was ten years old and was involved in the rock ‘n roll world. His musical career really started picking up traction when he began his industrial rock covers of The Rolling Stones songs. Mudcrutch was a band that he put together with destructive results. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers was a tremendous success, however. The 1970s proved to be a wonderful time for Petty and his band.
Tom Petty
