Loretta Lynn – $65 million
Greatest Hits: Coal Miner’s Daughter, You Ain’t Woman Enough
The Kentucky-born country star dominated her genre and scene to the point that she is still recognized as one of its greatest contributors. Songs like First City, You Ain’t Woman Enough, Don’t Come Home A’Drinkin’, and One’s on the Way were some of her many amazing songs. She even enjoyed her own biopic, called The Daughter of the Coal Miner, the name taken from one of her most successful tracks. With a record sales rate of more than forty-five million records, 24 albums, one single, and eleven numbers, Lynn is still amazingly carrying on with her career at the age of 87.
Loretta Lynn
Lou Reed – $15 million
Greatest Hits: Heavenly Arms, Think it Over
The Velvet Underground enjoyed an incredible songwriter and lead singer with Lou Reed, who would later embark on a solo career that would continue for more than five decades. Despite never enjoying critical or commercial success while it was a thing, The Velvet Underground is today considered to be one of the greatest alternative rock bands ever formed. Reed would depart from the Velvet Underground in 1970 to then pump out 20 solo records. His first album did moderately well, but the subsequent ones performed incredibly well, but he did have something of a mixed career. Eventually, New York and New Sensations would revive his career.
Lou Reed
