At 61, Rod is as hot as ever. His “Great American Songbook: Volume IV,” a collection of standards, sold 3 million copies in 2005. Stewart also sold $50 million worth of tickets on his From Maggie May to the Great American Songbook tour. He also made an appearance on this year’s “American Idol” and fathered his sixth child, Alastair Wallace, with former model Penny Lancaster.
* Earnings estimates are for June 2005 to June 2006. Figures rounded off where appropriate. Exact figures available on Forbes.com. Includes dollars earned solely from entertainment income. Management, agent and attorney fees have not been deducted. Estimates by forbes; sources include Billboard, Pollstar, Adams Media Research, Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen BookScan. Rankings are generated by combining earnings with other metrics: Web mentions on Google press clips compiled by LexisNexis; TV/radio mentions by Factiva; and number of times a celebrity’s face appeared on the cover of 26 major consumer magazines.