{"id":9370,"date":"2013-07-28T06:08:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T06:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/sharapova-tops-forbes-list-of-russian-celebrities\/"},"modified":"2013-07-28T06:08:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T06:08:07","slug":"sharapova-tops-forbes-list-of-russian-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/sharapova-tops-forbes-list-of-russian-celebrities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharapova Tops Forbes&#8217; List of Russian Celebrities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Maria Sharapova has claimed the throne in Forbes&#8217; 2013 edition of Russia&#8217;s top 50 celebrities. The nominations were allocated based on three factors: income for the year, media coverage and top searches in Yandex.}}<\/p>\n<p>The tennis player has replaced singer Stas Mikhailov \u2014 who topped the list two years in a row \u2014 due to her hefty income of over $29 million.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Leps came in second place with an estimated earning of $15 million for the year.<\/p>\n<p>Although Leps came in behind Sharapova, he dominated in being the top searched celebrity in Yandex, having 6.5 million searches to his name versus Sharapova&#8217;s 760 thousand. <\/p>\n<p>Many accredit Leps&#8217; recent popularity to his performance at the State Duma where he publicly chastised journalists and their constant presence.<\/p>\n<p>Third place went to the conductor and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev. According to Forbes, Gergiev&#8217;s income was $16.5 million, topping Leps&#8217;. The directors yearly income has more than tripled over one year; it is reported that in 2012 the conductor&#8217;s annual income was $3 million.<\/p>\n<p>The top ten positions also included: singer Philip Kirkorov ($9.7 million), hockey player Alexander Ovechkin ($16.8 million), TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak ($1.4 million), singer Nikolai Baskov ($8.9 million), model Natalia Vodianova($8.6 million) and football player Andrei Arshavin($6.4 million).<\/p>\n<p>For the first time since this edition started printing, Alla Pugachyova did not make in the top 10, and is instead at 11th place with an annual earning of $2.5 million.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3315 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/frr.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{The Moscow Times } <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Maria Sharapova has claimed the throne in Forbes&#8217; 2013 edition of Russia&#8217;s top 50 celebrities. The nominations were allocated based on three factors: income for the year, media coverage and top searches in Yandex.}} The tennis player has replaced singer Stas Mikhailov \u2014 who topped the list two years in a row \u2014 due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9370"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}