No. 31 -- Florida Georgia Line's $4.3 million in music sales royalties is the second-highest on this list, behind Taylor Swift.
No. 32 -- Rihanna generated 11.2 million track sales, the second-highest in the category, behind Bruno Mars.
No. 33 -- Brad Paisley raked in $608,900 in publishing coin.
No. 34 -- Marc Anthony is the lone Latin artist on this list, largely thanks to his $6.7 million in touring earnings.
No. 35 -- Elton John's $5.7 million box-office haul included a 10-night run at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
No. 36 -- Rose Ave., Pink's detour into folk as You + Me, added nearly $120,000 to $2.5 million in sales royalties.
No. 37 -- James Taylor will release Before the World, his first album in five years in June, but $6.3 million in touring revenue suggests fans want to hear the hits.
No. 38 -- Pearl Jam's Ten (1991) and Lightning Bolt (2013) accounted for half of 277,000 albums sold domestically.
No. 39 -- Even without a Hot Country Songs top 10 hit, Rascal Flatts' tunes were streamed 115.5 million times.
No. 40 -- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Grammy-nominated Hypnotic Eye album, released in July 2014, accounted for 58 percent of the 453,000 units the band sold in 2014. Combined with 876,000 downloads, Petty, 64, and his band netted $1.2 million in sales royalties. But like other heritage acts on this list, Petty makes the lion's share of his income through touring. The $12.8 million in estimated box-office revenue that the group generated in 2014 translated into $4.3 million in take-home pay -- 65 percent of Petty and the Heartbreakers' overall take for the year.
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