The Concern Over Taylor Swift's Income Is Hilarious: She's Still Filthy Rich, Just Not as Filthy as Some Are Saying

A report coming out of the U.K. that she was banking $1 million a day got a lot of wishful pickup

It would be rather perfect if Taylor Swift did make $1 million a day, wouldn't it?

She's got the life, the loft, the legs, the leggy squad. Why not be banking seven figures 365 times a year?

A report that originated in the U.K. about Swift making exactly that spread like wildfire over the past 24 hours, presumably due to wishful thinking that the cherry on the top of thickly iced Taylor Swift cake was that exorbitant paycheck. And the sprinkles would've been the additional news that she keeps it in gold bars locked away in a climate-proof vault in her NYC pad and then hand-delivers them to fans who've made the best vision boards.

But it turns out that neither of those things are real news.

Forbes was, er, swift to burst the bursting-with-money bubble this morning, placing the platinum-selling star's projected earnings for the year at an estimated—albeit still-stratospheric—$100 million.

Which, of course, still breaks down to Taylor earning so much more than you every day. Unless you're in our $273,972-per-day income demo.

And Forbes has certainly been keeping track—last year, Swift came in at No. 2 on the mag's list of country music's top earners with $64 million (aw, they still included her in the country lineup, how quaint) and she made it to No. 64 on the "World's Most Powerful 100 Women" list that came out in May. Her previously reported 2015 spot on the Celeb 100 in June was No. 8, with $80 million.

But it's pretty fascinating how excited got over the idea of Taylor being a human JP Morgan Chase (not that corporations aren't people...sigh...).

And how accurate, even, are the more conservative lists?! Howard Stern, who was No. 5 on Forbes' Celeb 100 with a reported $95 million in earnings from the previous 12 months, said on his morning show how not true that was. (And he said it the year before, too, regarding the same amount.) Not that he's hurting, but it's a reminder that there's so much income vs. expenses action behind the scenes that no one is privy to, not even the experts.

While the inflated Swift sum seemed possible, we must remember, artists don't get every single dollar that their name earns. A lot of people and companies get paid before the remainder is signed over to someone like Taylor Swift.

Of course, she does receive a cut above some, because she has written so many of her own songs and she has indicated that she keeps a close watch on the fiscal picture, for other artists and presumably for herself. She's also of a newer generation that's been privy to plenty of stories about mega-selling artists' fortunes bungled away by shady business dealings, divorces and creative accounting.

Somehow we have a feeling that sort of thing will never, ever happen to Taylor Swift.

Overall, it doesn't really matter to anyone aside from the IRS whether she'll be $100 million or $365 million richer in due time, but if a reported figure sounds a little too ridiculous to be true...

Wildest dreams, it is.