Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, January 31st. Today on Forbes, how Tyler

the Creator turned his cult fan base into supreme success. The surprise release of Tyler

the Creator's freestyle Sag Harbor on Christmas Day was a clear victory lap for his triumphant

2025. On the four-minute track,

Tyler talks about shopping for estates in the Hamptons, turning his idols into rivals, and trying

to land a $100 million record contract. He wraps, quote, I'm on the road to doing stadiums next,

but you all keep counting me out, like what's the cheat code?

That level of success is a relatively new reality for the 34-year-old musician, producer, and

fashion entrepreneur, who is labeled early in his career as a so-called cult artist because of the

small, rabid fan base he developed just outside of hip-hop's mainstream.

After selling an estimated $175 million in tickets to more than 90 sold-out arenas in North America,

Europe, and Asia, while touring for his latest 2024 Cromacopia album over the past year,

Tyler became one of the biggest artists in the world.

He released an additional mixtape mid-tore, Don't Tap the Glass, which claimed its own

number one spot on the Billboard charts. Now both albums are nominated at this Sunday's Grammy

Awards, Don't Tap the Glass for Best Alternative Music Album, and Chromocopia for Best Rap Album, and, for the first time in his career, Album of the Year.

And last November, Apple Music named him Artist of the Year.

From his music alone, Forbes estimates Tyler earned $53 million before taxes and fees in 2025, placing him at number 13 on the list of the

highest paid musicians in the world.

And that doesn't count his other entrepreneurial ventures, including the clothing brand,

Golf Wang, and his music festival, Camp Flognaw, or his supporting role in the Timothy

Chalamee-led movie, Marty Supreme,

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