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Beyonce is the highest paid woman in music in 2014, with estimated earnings of $115 million, more than double what she pulled in last year, Forbes magazine said on Tuesday.

The huge sum, most of which was from her world tour, propelled Beyonce, 33, from fourth place last year and put her firmly ahead of pop star Taylor Swift, 24, with $64 million, who jumped up one spot from last year to No. 2.

"Beyonce played 95 shows during our scoring period, bringing in an average of $2.4 million per city," said Forbes, citing data from the Pollstar trade magazine.

The R&B singer's self-titled album released last December and endorsement deals pushed her earnings up further assuring her the top spot.

Forbes compiled the list after estimating pre-tax income calculated for the 12 months from June 2013 to 2014 based on record sales, concert tickets, touring information merchandise sales and interviews with concert promoters, lawyers and managers.

It also looked at data from the Pollstar, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan.

On Monday, November 24, 2014, Beyonce will globally release BEYONCE Platinum Edition Box Set. The 2 CD/2 DVD limited edition package will include new songs, "7/11" and "Ring Off" plus four new and unreleased remixes with some superstar collaborators. The original, critically acclaimed self-titled visual album, featuring 14 songs and 17 videos, is also included.

The special edition box set features a live performance DVD that chronicles the year-long "Mrs. Carter Show World Tour," a mini version of the official 2015 Beyonce calendar, and more.

Each PLATINUM EDITION BOX SET contains:

• MORE audio CD with two brand new songs and four unreleased remixes with collaborations from Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Mr. Vegas and Pharrell Williams

• " LIVE" DVD featuring 10 live performances from the "Mrs. Carter Show World Tour" with artist commentary and an accompanying photo booklet

• BEYONCE Original audio CD featuring 14 songs and accompanying photo booklet

• BEYONCE Original DVD featuring 17 music videos

• The official 2015 Beyonce mini calendar

Fans who previously purchased the original BEYONCE visual album digitally will be given the opportunity to add the bonus materials.

BEYONCE PLATINUM EDITION is available for pre-order now.

The 4-disc platinum edition of "Beyonce" is available for pre-order on Amazon UK! The album will be released on November 24, 2014. However, the tracklist is yet to be revealed.

The world's biggest auction of celebrity shoes returns for its fifth instalment in December, with Beyonce's shoes among the highlights.

The Small Steps Project auction opens for bids on November 4, and closes on December 7. Profits will benefit charities supporting children living on landfill sites, many of who walk on them barefoot.

The highlights of the sale are shoes from Beyonce and George Clooney.

Go to smallstepsproject.org for more info.

It looks like MTV accidentally confirmed that Beyonce is performing at the EMAs! The broadcaster just uploaded a promo video to their YouTube account with the description: “Don’t miss Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, Iggy Azalea, Eminem and more performing Sunday, November 9th.” It could just be a mistake but the other three artists mentioned have already been announced, so maybe they let the cat out of the bag?

If Queen Bey does take the stage, it will be the diva’s first televised performance since that mesmerizing medley at the MTV VMAs in September. And if she does appear, it’s a pretty safe bet that she’ll perform the “***Flawless” remix with Nicki Minaj — after all, the femcee is hosting the event. See the cute promo video below and a screengrab of the description here.

Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, is pleased to announce the next book by J. Randy Taraborrelli, the New York Times bestselling author of groundbreaking biographies of Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, the Kennedys and most recently, the Hiltons. Scheduled for publication in the Fall of 2015 in hardcover, digital and audio editions, Taraborrelli will write the first comprehensive biography ever published of pop icon Beyoncé Knowles. Jamie Raab, President and Publisher of Grand Central Publishing, acquired world rights from Mitch Douglas of the Mitch Douglas Literary Agency. The book is currently untitled.

Based on exhaustive research by Taraborrelli, including exclusive interviews with the people in the superstar’s life who have been pivotal to her personal and professional development, the biography will explore all facets of Knowles’ life. Beginning with her career at the age of seven performing in pageant shows and talent contests and recording her first number one hit record at the age of 18 with her group, Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé has become one of the most successful solo artists of her generation appearing in 2014 on the cover of Time Magazine and at the #1 spot on Forbes’ annual list of the wealthiest celebrities.

"I can't think of a more intriguing subject than Beyoncé," said Taraborrelli. "In terms of research, there's no road map to follow since this is the first major biography. Therefore, we're breaking new ground with every chapter. From Destiny's Child to solo superstardom to her marriage to Jay­‐Z, Beyoncé has lived a most incredible, inspiring life. I know my readers will enjoy her journey."

Jamie Raab said of the book, “Having written the definitive biographies of music icons Madonna, Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, Randy is the perfect biographer to write about the life and career of Beyoncé Knowles.”

She's arguably Topshop’s most famous customer. Now Beyoncé is connecting further by partnering with the brand.

Beyoncé Knowles and London-based Topshop have formed a 50-50 joint venture company, Parkwood Topshop Athletic Ltd., to produce an athletic streetwear brand, WWD has learned. It could launch in stores and online in fall 2015 at the earliest.

The deal is expected to be unveiled by Topshop in London today.

“This not a collaboration. This is about building a brand and building a business — a separate, proper business, with separate overhead and a separate office,” Topshop owner Sir Philip Green told WWD in an interview Sunday.

Asked how the deal came about, Green recalled: “Basically, when she was in London in February we arranged to get together. We started talking generally, about doing something together. We’ve been looking at that sector for a while. It’s something we need to be in. Based on what she does, how she works out, the conversation got into that category. We started getting into proper conversation in May or June, as to how it would work. It took six or eight weeks to put a deal together. On Friday, “Beyoncé came to our office for the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle.”

Beyoncé and her husband Jay Z have been widely photographed in Paris and London over the past week or so.

“I have always loved Topshop for their fashion credentials and forward thinking,” Beyoncé said.

Last night the 2014 MOBO Awards were held at the SSE Arena in Wembley, London. Beyonce, who was nominated against Chris Brown, Drake, Iggy Azalea, J Cole, Jhene Aiko, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, Pharrell and Trey Songz, was honoured with the Best International Act title. Congratulations!

RoccStar is one of the hottest producers in the game right now — not to mention an aspiring artist in his own right — with placements on Chris Brown‘s X and Jennifer Lopez‘s A.K.A.. I recently interviewed the hitmaker (coming soon) about those projects and his work on Beyonce‘s game-changing visual album. He spent a week with Queen Bey and cooked up two killer tunes but they weren’t used when she veered towards a different sound.

“I was there for like 7 days with Bey,” RoccStar remembers. “ a lot of DJ Mustard type stuff, with ‘Drunk In Love’ and ‘Partition’. I’m more on the left side of things, so I don’t think I was a good fit for that project because the records I had were maybe a little too futuristic and a little too advanced.”

“I think she wanted to swing with what was happening right now,” he continues. “I respect that, I mean Beyonce is amazing. So I don’t care what decision she makes! There were two songs that were crazy, ‘Turn It On’ and ‘Legends’ but they didn’t make it on the project.” The “Confidence” rapper later played me a snippet of the former club-banger and it sounded incredible with one of Bey’s best vocals and bone-rattling beats.

Is Beyonce about to slay the Holiday season with a mega release? If listings for the album, on some music sites, are credible, that might just be the case.

Screen shots of a "Platinum Edition" set were captured over the weekend on sites, including iMusic, which lists the album as coming from Columbia (Records) with four discs.

No official announcement has come from Beyonce or Columbia, but the iMusic listing points to a November 24 release, which would be timely and coincide with the start of Holiday season.

In other music news, a new Beyonce track called "Donk" was registered on ASCAP. Click here to see the entry.

CENTRIC announced the nominees for SOUL TRAIN AWARDS 2014, which will celebrate and honor R&B’s finest and most soulful artists on November 7, 2014 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. Hosted by Wendy Williams, this year’s fete will take Vegas by storm with not -to-be missed moments, including Unforgettable performances, iconic tributes, and appearances by today’s leading musicians. The SOUL TRAIN AWARDS 2014 will air on CENTRIC and BET on November 30, 2014 at 8PM ET/PT.

SOUL TRAIN AWARDS 2014 will honor artists in 12 different categories. Beyoncé received six nominations:

Best Gospel/Inspirational Song
Help - Erica Campbell feat. Lecrae
I Can Only Imagine - Tamela Mann
No Greater Love - Smokie Norful
Real Love - Inspired People feat. Charles Jenkins
Say Yes - Michelle Williams feat. Beyoncé & Kelly Rowland
We Are Victorious - Donnie McClurkin feat. Tye Tribbett

Best R&B/Soul Female Artist
Beyoncé
Janelle Monaé
Jennifer Hudson
Jhené Aiko
Marsha Ambrosius
Ledisi

Beyoncé received three nominations for the 2014 American Music Awards!

Artist of the Year
Iggy Azalea
Beyoncé
Luke Bryan
Eminem
Imagine Dragons
John Legend
Lorde
One Direction
Katy Perry
Pharrell Williams

Favorite Female Artist - Soul/R&B
Jhené Aiko
Beyoncé
Mary J. Blige

Favorite Album - Soul/R&B
Beyoncé "Beyoncé"
John Legend "Love in the Future"
Pharrell Williams "G I R L"

Head over to amavote.com to vote!

Last month, Billboard reported that the Harvard Business School had taken a close look at the release of Beyonce's surprise, self-titled album, dropped upon an unprepared world last December. At the time of Beyonce's midnight release, Billboard covered the event in depth, talking to the people involved and getting the inside scoop. But nearly a year later, Harvard Business School has dug even deeper into what went on behind the scenes of the reveal and Billboard got an exclusive sneak peek.

Anita Elberse, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and Stacie Smith, a former student of Professor Elberse, have co-written the final word on how Beyonce landed like a meteorite on the dinosaurs last winter with their 27-page report titled, fittingly, "Beyonce." The study -- which will be taught in Elberse’s course “Strategic Marketing in Creative Industries” in early October -- takes a bird's-eye look at the music industry's current standing and Beyonce's early career, before moving on to the juiciest bits: Beyonce's founding of her own company (Parkwood Entertainment, operated as a joint venture with Rob Stringer's Columbia Records), her role at the company (CEO, lighthouse) and the planning of her opus.

For the report, Elberse and Smith interviewed key employees at Parkwood and Columbia, as well as those at Apple and Facebook directly involved in the release of Beyonce. Here are some of the most fascinating details:

How Beyonce Holds a Meeting
“ doesn’t often sit in her office,” Lee Anne Callahan-Longo, Parkwood's general manager, told the pair. “She usually walks from one office to the other, speaking with the staff. She’ll come to my office and talk to me, or she will sit in the back and give notes on projects we are working on... She has got a really good sense of the business side, but she doesn’t like to live there always. We often laugh about how an hour into a business meeting she will get up and will start walking around. I can see it then -- that I’ve lost her, and that I have satiated the amount of business that she wants to discuss that day. I’ll usually say something like ‘Let’s stop. You are going to say "Yes," but you are not listening to me anymore.’ She knows herself, will laugh, and say ‘You are absolutely right, I am done.’ Because at the end of the day she is an artist, and her passion for art drives her.”

Beyonce's empire keeps expanding its reach: first Rutgers started a course devoted to the singer; then Harvard Business School began to study her; now, a radio station in Houston has rebranded itself as a Beyonce-only radio station.

The station's website posted a statement announcing its closure: "News92, Houston’s first FM all-news radio station aired its last broadcast Wednesday, October 8, 2014... This difficult decision is a result of sustained poor ratings performance and significant financial losses over the past three years despite the substantial financial and human resources we invested."

Radio One owns the station-formerly-known-as-News92. Yashima Azilove, who works for Radio One, discussed the station's reincarnation as Beyonce radio with local news. "In looking to make a transition, we go back to what we know," Azilove told ABC13. "We know urban radio. We're in Houston, the combination seemed like a winning one." Well, it's a win for Radio One and Beyonce at least -- 47 employees of the station were laid off.

If the new station only plays Beyonce's solo catalog, it will have five albums to choose from. Not including various bonus tracks, remixes, live versions or tracks from other artists featuring Beyonce, those records contain 63 songs, adding up to roughly 4 hours and 15 minutes of music. Of course, if the station is willing to dig into Beyonce's work with Destiny's Child, that will expand their pool of possible tunes to draw from -- Destiny's Child recorded 5 albums (if you count their Christmas album), containing 67 songs and around 4.5 hours of music.

Beyonce's last album, Beyonce, came out in December of 2013; it has sold more than 2 million copies. Her "Flawless" remix is currently No. 24 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop chart, making it one of only two songs in the top 25 of that chart that feature a female singer.

The official 2015 Beyoncé calendar is now available at the Beyoncé Online Shop!

In the gallery you'll also find new photos from the inside of the calendar.

Beyonce is nominated in one category for the 2014 MOBO Awards. Be sure to vote here!

Best International Act
Beyonce
Chris Brown
Drake
Iggy Azalea
J Cole
Jhene Aiko
Kendrick Lamar
Nicki Minaj
Pharrell
Trey Songz

Barbra Streisand's new album of duets only includes male singers, but it wasn't a conscious effort to exclude females.

"Everyone we asked was...busy," Streisand said. The performer almost scored one major diva: Beyonce.

"She had her people try to do a track of one of the songs from my movie, 'A Star is Born,' and it just, we didn't have the time to finish it, to get it right," she said. "We had to release the album. Maybe someday we'll do a duet because she's so great."

"Partners," released Tuesday, features Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, John Legend and Babyface, who produced the album.

We don’t want to get you too excited just yet. But yes, there are rumors floating around, which claim the dynamic duo is planning to drop a joint album.

Jay Z and Beyoncé literally just wrapped their On the Run Tour with a blowout show in Paris (Nicki Minaj knows it was ‘Flawless’) and here come the reports that they’ve been secretly working on a joint project. The next confirmed item on their schedule is the debut of their On the Run Tour special on HBO, September 20, but is it really possible that an album will also be arriving soon?

DJ Skee was the first to publicly put this out into the world, announcing on-air during his Dash radio show that he had “confirmed and talked with a couple sources,” who say the project would be released in late 2014 or early 2015.

According to E!, Karli Henriquez, Vice President of Pop Programming at Dash Radio has gone on record to say that the power couple will definitely be putting out this “huge” album.

On Jay Z’s 2013 album Magna Carta Holy Grail, he and Beyoncé teamed up for “Part II (On the Run)” and on Beyoncé’s self-titled release later that year, they gave us the monster hit “Drunk in Love.” Obviously, we’ll take some more Hov and Bey if it comes our way.

MTV News has reached out to a Jay Z rep to confirm this news, but there has been no comment as of press time.

Featuring a foreword written by Beyoncé, One Woman 100 Faces celebrates the unique collaboration between Mitzi Martin, Francesca Tolot, and photographer Alberto Tolot. In breathtaking images, it captures both Francesca’s amazing artistry and Martin’s stunning transformations over the years. Embodying and intimately interpreting 100 different forms, moods, and identities—by turns innocent, graceful, feminine, raw, sexual, and mysterious—Mitzi’s appearance morphs completely, even magically, with every turn of the page.

Francesca Tolot’s One Woman 100 Faces is available for purchase on Amazon now.

Take a look at some of the featured images on Beyonce.com.

The nominations are in for the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards! This year, Beyoncé is nominated in three categories:

Best Female
Ariana Grande
Beyoncé
Katy Perry
Nicki Minaj
Taylor Swift

Best Live
Beyoncé
Bruno Mars
Justin Timberlake
Katy Perry
One Direction

Best US Act
Beyoncé
Eminem
Fifth Harmony
Katy Perry
Pharrell Williams

Voting is open at mtvema.com until November 8. The MTV EMAs will air live the following day at 7 p.m. ET from SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland.