Rihanna Is Crowned More ‘Powerful’ Than Beyonce & Taylor Swift On Forbes List

Rihanna is galore things. She’s an internationally acclaimed singer with much Platinum certifications than 1 tin count. She’s a quality mogul and a manner kingpin, sitting atop a billion-dollar empire. She’s astir to beryllium a Super Bowl Halftime amusement headliner. She’s a arrogant mother, caring for her and ASAP Rocky’s child. Now, she’s 1 of the astir almighty women successful the world, according to Forbes magazine. The work released its database for “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” connected Wednesday (Dec. 7), and Rihanna, 34, came successful astatine No. 73, down Laura Cha, the archetypal pistillate seat of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and up of Mette Frederiksen, the premier curate of Denmark.

On apical of this, Rihanna is more powerful than her chap popular stars, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Taylor, 32, and Beyoncé, 41, are listed astatine No. 79 and No. 80, respectively. They’re sandwiched betwixt Jenny Lee, “one of the astir respected VC investors successful China,” and Guler Sabanci, the archetypal pistillate to tally Sabanci Holding, 1 of Turkey’s largest planetary conglomerates.

Rihanna (KCS Presse / MEGA)

How did Forbes come up with these rankings? “The database was determined by 4 main metrics: money, media, impact, and spheres of influence,” the work says. “For governmental leaders, we weighed gross home products and populations; for firm leaders, revenues and worker counts; and media mentions and scope of all. The effect is simply a postulation of women who are warring the presumption quo.”

Beyoncé (Adidas x IVY PARK/Mega)

While Rihanna was deemed much “powerful” than Taylor, it was Swift who was listed nether “The Highlights” section. “Taylor Swift broke records and Ticketmaster’s website this year,” wrote Forbes. “After releasing her 10th workplace medium successful October [Midnights], she became the archetypal creator successful past to assertion the apical 10 spots connected the Billboard Hot 100 opus list. And successful November, request for tickets to her 2023 Eras Tour overwhelmed Ticketmaster, prompting members of Congress to question the company’s clasp connected performance sales.”

Taylor Swift (Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/MEGA)

Taylor was spotlighted alongside Thasunda Brown Duckett, the president and CEO of TIAA advertisement 1 of conscionable 2 Black pistillate CEOs “leading 1 of America’s largest 500 companies”; Falguni Nayar, India’s richest self-made woman; and Xiomara Castro, the archetypal pistillate president of Honduras. Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission’s president (the European Union’s enforcement branch), is listed arsenic No. 1.

Some different acquainted faces made the list. United States Vice President Kamala Harris is astatine No. 3, MacKenzie Scott (investor and ex-wife of Jeff Bezos) is astatine No. 11, Oprah Winfrey is No. 24, Reese Witherspoon is No. 86, Shonda Rhimes is No. 93, and Dolly Parton nearly finished retired the database astatine No. 96.