The biggest 'music money maker' in 2011 was Taylor Swift at $35.7 million ... Lady GaGa was fourth ...

What is amazing is the unlimited exposure today's artists have ...Lauren Alaina - last years AI runner up, sang her first single from her debut album on AI last week, and the song broke onto the C/W top forty at number 31 ... in Dean and Perry's day a song would have to be played on radio for weeks for it to get any attention ...