I have no dogs in this fight, but the plot "How does Taylor Swift's ..." leaves a bit of a misleading picture of the gap to others, e.g Rolling Stones when comparing nominal dollars. Inflation adjusted would be much fairer, and indeed will be fairer to Taylor in 20 year's time when a new artist appears to be the biggest of all time. Recognising that the graph is an image, the easiest way to resolve this is note it in the text, as I suspect it doesn't change the result for highest earner.
I have no dogs in this fight, but the plot "How does Taylor Swift's ..." leaves a bit of a misleading picture of the gap to others, e.g Rolling Stones when comparing nominal dollars. Inflation adjusted would be much fairer, and indeed will be fairer to Taylor in 20 year's time when a new artist appears to be the biggest of all time. Recognising that the graph is an image, the easiest way to resolve this is note it in the text, as I suspect it doesn't change the result for highest earner.