The No. 5 spot saw a tie between Kelly Clarkson of the original “American Idol” and Season 10 winner Scott McCreery, with their $4 million earnings.
The reality competition TV show “American Idol” is now airing its 15th and final season all the way to the spring.
Adam Lambert is arguably one of the biggest, if not the biggest success story of “American Idol” since he competed in the show in 2009.
He topped last year’s “American Idol” top earners because of the release of his third solo album in June last year and also because of his famous moonlighting as the lead singer of the iconic rock band Queen.
Early last year, Lambert spoke about getting out of his rut after his split with his former record label RCA. He said in an interview then that he realized that after his second album “Trespassing,” he was a little bit disappointed with its commercial life.
He said he had apprehensions of whether to release a new album or not because his second album was not a commercial success. Then he realized that he had to let go of the apprehensions and fear for him to get out of the rut. The rest, as everyone knows it, is history, as his third studio album “The Original High” came out to great success.