Touring: $5.5 million
Recording: $10.4 million
Publishing: $3.8 million
Other: $9 million
Net: $28.9 million
2002 rank: 19-$19.4 million

"Everyone on this list probably made less than you think," says one music manager. "Eminem probably made more." The rapper had the biggest-selling album of the year, The Eminem Show, which moved 7.6 million copies -- fifty percent more than the runner-up, Nellyville. And he gets a superstar royalty rate of about two dollars per record. Out on the road, he headlined the Anger Management Tour, which generated $15 million in ticket sales, about a third of which, we estimate, flowed into Slim Shady's accounts. But this was the year that Eminem diversified, becoming a label head and movie star. He got $3 million for his role in the movie 8 Mile, and his Shady Records sold 3.5 million units of the 8 Mile soundtrack, although he splits those profits with distributor Interscope. His 2003 earnings are already off to a strong start. Shady Records (along with partners Aftermath and Interscope) has the biggest new artist of the year thus far: 50 Cent, who sold 1.7 million records in his first two weeks.