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29
September
2006
Madonna
Earning World Record
Wage
Madonna
has been awarded a
Guinness World Record
for being the highest
paid female singer on
the planet.
The
pop diva, who has gone
through countless
re-inventions, has
knocked Britney
Spears
off the top spot raking
in an estimated $50
million US dollars
(£26.6 million) in
2004.
Britney
had managed to hold on
to the record since
2001, when she entered
the Guinness World
Records (GWR), earning
38.5 million US dollars
(£20.5 million) in
2000.
The
singer joins
James
Blunt,
the Arctic Monkeys,
Simon Cowell and a host
of other people who are
included in the Guinness
World Records 2007 book.
In total 2,244 new
records were set in
2005.
Craig
Glenday, editor-in-chief
of the book, said:
"We've got a really
strong mix of absolutely
everything we could
think of from wacky
sports as well as
serious news and
politics."
James
Blunt's Back to Bedlam
scooped the award for
the most albums sold in
a year in the UK with
2,368,000 copies in
2005. The Arctic Monkeys
had the fastest selling
UK debut album with
Whatever People Say I
Am, That's What I'm Not
selling 363,735 copies
in its first week and
113,000 on its first
day.
Simon
Cowell is the highest
paid TV talent show
judge earning £18
million,
Jamie
Oliver
is the highest paid chef
with an estimated annual
income of £4.8
million and
Ricky
Gervais
is the most downloaded
podcast.
Also,
acclaimed children's
novelist,
JK
Rowling
keeps her record for the
highest annual earnings
for a children's author
at an estimated
£34.2
million.
Doctor
Who claims a new record
for the longest running
science-fiction TV
series with 709 episodes
and 173 storylines from
1963 up to the time the
book went to
press.
Peter
Jackson's remake of King
Kong smashed the box
office record for the
most expensive movie
ever made at $207
million US dollars
(£108 million) and
Tom
Hanks
and fellow Da Vinci Code
stars set a new record
for the longest non-stop
international train
journey from London to
the Cannes film festival
this
year.
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