Calvin Harris is 2013’s highest-paid DJ

It turns out that creating disco is a really profitable venture.

Scottish DJ and producer Calvin Harris has supplanted the Dutch titan Tiësto as the best-paid DJ in 2013, according to a new Forbes Magazine accounting. The superstar reportedly raked in $46 million over the last year, easily besting not only peers such as David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia but also nearly all his pop and hip-hop peers.

His tally comes from his $200,000-and-up nightly DJ fees, an enviable publishing deal, his “18 Months� album and his production work on Rihanna’s smash singles “We Found Love� and “Where Have You Been?� His take is more than twice what last year’s top-earner, Tiësto, pulled over the same period in 2012, suggesting that EDM’s fire hose of money isn’t slowing down any time soon.

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Harris’ take was also good enough to place him in the list of highest-grossing celebrities under age 30 for 2013.

The rest of the EDM earners list is full of the names you’d expect -- Avicii, Deadmau5, Afrojack, Skrillex and Kaskade all made the top 10. Among the surprises? DJ Pauly D, of “Jersey Shore� fame, coasting in at No. 12 despite, shall we say, having a different reputation than most of his peers on that list.

Dim Mak’s Steve Aoki deserves a victory cake in the face for clocking in at No. 11, and Diplo’s recent turns at pop producing were good enough to tie with DJ Pauly D for No. 12.

Lessons learned? Maybe DJing is a more reliable revenue stream than data mining your new album after all.

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