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The spotlight has always shined on Christina Aguilera, and this pop icon has managed to turn one of the biggest voices in music into one of the biggest fortunes in show business. In addition to her pop music career, the singer has also ventured into acting and television, most notably serving as a judge on the music competition show The Voice. Her successful endeavors on screen and the radio have helped her build a $160 million empire.
Destined to be a star from the start, Aguilera appeared on Star Search when she was only 10. By the time she was 13, she had landed a role on The Mickey Mouse Club, where she would work alongside a trio of future stars, including Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, and Ryan Gosling.
Here's how the voice of a generation earns her fortune.
A String of Successful Albums
The singer signed to RCA when she was 19 as the label was feeling pressure to respond to the contemporary teen pop craze evoked by Britney Spears. The songstress released her debut album, Christina Aguilera, when she was just 19. The record was an instant hit, selling 14 million copies worldwide, and its single lead Genie in a Bottle, catapulted the singer to international fame.
The Beautiful singer followed the album with a Spanish language record in 2000. Mi Reflejo peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums charts, where it would stay for 19 weeks. Mi Reflejo garnered a 6x platinum certification, and a successful Christmas album, My Kind of Christmas, came later that year.
Aguilera's fourth album, Stripped, saw the singer take creative control of her career to pursue a more mature sound. The record was an international success and spawned four Top 10 hits, including Beautiful, which received universal acclaim among music critics.
The Genie in a Bottle singer would go on to release four more studio albums and sell around 75 million records worldwide. Her albums consistently top the charts, with
Aguilera is now recognized as one of the world's best-selling music artists. In 2009, Billboard classified her as the twentieth most successful artist of the 2000s.
Touring to promote her records has also proved to be very lucrative for the singer, who has had some of the highest-grossing female solo tours of all time.
A Year-Long Las Vegas Residency
After Aguilera released Liberation, her eighth studio album, she hit the road for a North American tour. It was the singer's first concert tour in over ten years and grossed $8.7 million. Performing live concerts paved the way for Aguilera's Las Vegas Residency, which she announced in 2019.
The Xperience at the Zappos Theater in Las Vegas ran from May 2019 to March 2020. The show received positive reviews from critics, with many lauding its positive message. By the time it concluded in 2020, the singer had performed for over 75,000 people and sold $10.8 million in tickets.
The show was a huge success, and Aguilera was certainly putting in the work. Between the dates of her Las Vegas show, the singer embarked on another tour. The X Tour comprised 15 shows in Europe and three shows in Mexico.
A Big Payday From The Voice
The Dirrty vocalist also made a sizable slice of her fortune from appearing on TV. The singer inked a lucrative deal with NBC to join the ranks of Adam Levine, CeeLo Green, and Blake Shelton on the first season of NBC's talent show The Voice in 2011.
Producers for the hit show reportedly had to pay the vocal powerhouse somewhere between $17 to $20 million just to get on board. Aguilera has kept busy on the show, appearing in six seasons of the show's sixteen seasons run. Taking that into consideration, it's likely the pop star netted around $100 million for her appearances.
Fragrances, Endorsements, And Films
Aguilera starred in her first movie role in 2010; she was cast opposite of pop icon Cher in the backstage musical Burlesque. Her second onscreen venture was her role as Akiko Glitter in The Emoji Movie, which pulled in $218 million at the box office. She also played the lead role in the 2018 indie film Jewels.
The Moves Like Jagger singer has also released several successful fragrances, including Xpose, Simply Christina, and Inspire.
She earns big bucks endorsing brands like Sears, Levi's, Skechers, Versace, Oreo, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi. She earned about $300,00 for opening a summer sale at the London department store Harrods in 2004.
And, in 2008, Aguilera was reportedly paid $1.5 million by People magazine for the baby pictures of her son following his birth.
Sources: MoneyInc, Celebrity Net Worth, Cheat Sheet