Tiger 2nd Most Powerful Celebrity

Tiger Woods has been ranked number 2 by Forbes in their 2007 100 Most Powerful Celebrities. Tiger raked in over 100 million US dollars in a year, the first athlete to do so in history according to Forbes. To generate the list, Forbes analyzes celebrity earnings, plus media metrics like Google hits, press mentions as compiled by Lexis/Nexis, TV/radio mentions from Factiva and the number of times an A-lister appears on the cover of 32 major consumer magazines. Earnings estimates are for June 2006 to June 2007 and consist of dollars earned solely from entertainment-related income. Management, agent and attorney fees have not been deducted.

Phil Mickelson is the next golfer on the list coming in at #16 between a David Beckham/David Letterman sandwich. In comparison, Tiger is between an Oprah and Madonna sandwich, which we’re sure has some hidden meaning. But what we really wanna know is what is Tiger going to do with all this power? We’d like to see him use this position to acquire even more money, buy some more houses and open a Blacks only golf club in Harlem. You can check out the entire list at forbes.com