SELL OUT WITH ME
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If you're a celebrity these days, selling yourself pays off big time.

Forget selling music, the real money is in merchandising โ€” and the biggest celebs will cash in on any kind of swag that they can put their name on: t-shirts, mousepads and other bric-a-brac. But who are the celebrities that have leveraged their reputations for the highest paycheck?

Enter the Celebrity Merch Index. Netcredit, an online lender, crunched the numbers from the celebrities operating "standalone stores built on a Shopify platform selling celebrity-branded merchandise" and created a chart of the top earners.

They found the top-earning celebrity from their Shopify stores was pop star Harry Styles, who has earned an impressive $22,970,575 from his merch. Influencers are also bringing home the big bucks by putting their names on things: British YouTube group The Sidemen, for instance, have earned $21,629,164 from their wares.


[Read more at Netcredit]

James Crugnale is an associate editor at Digg.com.

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