<p>Full</a> List: The Celebrity 100 - The Celebrity 100 - Forbes.com</p>
<p>Top 10:
1. Oprah Winfrey
2. Beyonce
3. James Cameron
4. Lady Gaga
5. Tiger Woods
6. Britney Spears
7. U2
8. Sandra Bullock
9. Johnny Depp
10. Madonna</p>
<p>By the way, can anybody explain the fascination behind Oprah? I never really understood that. I just saw it as a regular TV show so I must be living under a rock for the last 20 years haha</p>
<p>Oprah sorta decides what a lot of people will buy, read, and vote for.</p>
<p>she’s black, female, and rich.
what did they use to measure this ‘power’? britney spears…</p>
<p>Oprah is awesome (and I’m a guy). Here’s why: She gave everyone at one of her businesses an iPad and $10,000. </p>
<p>[Oprah</a> gives magazine staff $10,000, iPad each - Entertainment - Celebrities - TODAYshow.com](<a href=“http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37742137/ns/today-entertainment/]Oprah”>http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/37742137/ns/today-entertainment/)</p>
<p>Oprah is the man.</p>
<p>Seriously, anything she touches turns to gold. Ever wonder what happens to the stuff that gets featured on her show?</p>
<p>^I know that but I’m just curious how she got that power in the first place? because that’s pretty cool that she gives out cars, ipads and everything on her show becomes cool.</p>
<p>To measure the power, they used:</p>
<p>$ earnings over the past year
media presence
and other small things such as how many people follow them on twitter.</p>
<p>the reasons britney spears made the list:</p>
<p>britney spears is number 1 followed person on twitter, number 4 searched on google, number 5 searched on yahoo, and number 1 searched on bing. she had a tour that was the 5th highest grossing tour of all time in 2009 and was the only artist to have a song open at number 1 on the billboard top 200 list for her single “3”</p>
<p>Well in the 1980s, she just had a normal midday talk show, and there’s no reason that hers succeeded while others’ failed. The only thing I can think of that differentiated her early on was her story: she’s from a rather poor side of Chicago, and now (80’s) she’s a moderately successful black, female talk show host. That inspires women, and they want to know how she did it, so they’ll tune in to watch what she has to say, and eventually continue to watch for the actual content. Word of mouth gets around, and then she’s the first lady billionaire.</p>
<p>@Msheb921</p>
<p>well someone knows a lot about britney spears…</p>