TikTok celebrities are now earning in millions per post! With creative lip-sync videos, music, and crazy dance moves, they are keeping their followers thoroughly entertained and begging for more!
Many teenagers today have garnered tremendous success and turned into celebrities overnight, soon to be showered by brand endorsement deals. For the first time, Forbes has published TikTok’s highest-paid stars list with TikTokers like Addison Rae Easterling and Charli D’Amelio topping the charts.
Let’s take a look at some of the celebrities who have earned more than 1 million on TikTok. Let us also delve into the type of viral content they are creating to get the fanbase hooked to their account.
Highest-Paid Celebrities on TikTok
Gaining millions of followers on TikTok is not easy, but if you can dish out excellent content that can keep viewers glued, you can make it really big!
Here are some celebrities who have garnered enormous success on TikTok and along with it tapped in on millions of dollars!
Addison Rae Easterling
Addison made it to the No.1 spot of the Forbes highest-paid TikTok celebrities of 2020, grossing $5 million on TikTok. This dancer who started publishing posts of her fabulous dance moves last year soon gained millions of viewers.
Today she has more than 65 million followers on the platform. Addison also creates sponsored content posts for brands like Fashion Nova, and Reebok.
She recently joined a group of other TikTok stars to form Hype House, a content creation collective. This year, she became the global spokesperson for American Eagle, a teen clothing company, further increasing her earnings.
Today she runs a Spotify podcast with her mother called Mama Knows Best. The social media celebrity addressing many questions that teenagers are uncomfortable asking their parents and owns her own makeup brand called Item Beauty.
Charli D’Amelio
Since posting her first series of dance videos on TikTok in June 2019, Charli D’Amelio has only been growing in fame. With most of her posts going viral over the internet, she has within a year garnered $4 million.
Charli opened for Jonas Brothers at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn along with singer Bebe Rexha. She also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon while also attending the Paris Fashion Week for Prada.
Not to forget the superb sponsorship deals she has got along the way from brands like Super Bowl, EOS cosmetics, and others. She is number 2 on the Forbes TikTok rich list.
Aged only 16yrs, Charli even has her own branded merchandise on social media that her followers look forward to purchasing in support of their favorite celebrity. Charli at present has more than 68 million followers on TikTok.
Dixie D’Amelio
Third on the list of Forbes highest-paid TikTokers of 2020 is Dixie D’Amelio, the elder sister of Charli D’Amelio. With more than 37 million followers, Dixie has earned $2.9 million on TikTok.
Besides posting dance videos and appearing along with her sister in TikTok posts, Dixie has also started out in her music career. In June 2020, she released her first single ‘Be Happy’ which became the No.1 trending video on YouTube.
It even had more viewers than the Kanye West- Travis Scott music video released the same day. Dixie and Charli have recently signed an endorsement deal to jointly promote Hollister and cosmetics brand Morphe.
The Bottom Line
These viral video content producers are making the most of TikTok while earning followers and collecting millions through sponsorship.
The key is to post fun and entertaining content, besides being very regular with your posts and keeping your followers super happy!
