american music awards hosting fees
Queen Latifah vs Jimmy Fallon: Music Awards Salary Showdown
At $5.4 million, Queen Latifah’s 2026 AMAs contract is the third-highest ever paid to a music-award host, but it still sits below the inflation-adjusted peak paid to Jimmy Fallon in 2015. In my experience, the fee gap signals a shift toward engagement-driven budgeting rather than pure star power.