Oh, and her podcast, Shangela, dropped last month. She also guest-starred on Community and Glee, shilled for McDonald’s and Orbitz, collaborated with Ariana Grande on her song “NASA,” and is working on a deal to stream her “Shangela Is Shook” tour as a comedy special. Halleloo! In the past year alone, Shangela, who never won Drag Race (mitigating fact: She’d done drag for only five months prior), toured 184 cities, made a big splash in A Star Is Born, and hosted the GLAAD Awards (earning a standing ovation from Beyoncé). Her book, Blame It on Bianca Del Rio: The Expert on Nothing With an Opinion on Everything, came out last year along with her coconut-oil-based makeup remover.ĭrag Race: Season 2 twelfth place season 3 sixth place.

She’ll be performing at the U.K.’s 12,500-seat Wembley Arena* for her “It’s Jester Joke” tour (which she’ll take to Carnegie Hall this fall), has nearly 2 million Instagram followers, is currently starring in the West End musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, made two Hurricane Bianca movies and a Logo comedy special, and landed a Starbucks ad with Adore. Since then, the insult comic, self-proclaimed “Clown in a Gown,” and first Latinx Drag Race winner has created a level of global drag stardom not seen since, well, Mama Ru herself. The queen of all Drag Race queens and the most successful alum, Bianca appeared on the show five years ago (and was so dominant that she reached the finale without having to lip-sync for her life). Alex Jung, Charlotte Klein, Genevieve Koski, Brian Moylan, Matthew Schneier, Matthew Silver, and Carl Swanson

Reporters and judges: Mano Agapion, Rebecca Alter, Joel Kim Booster, Maria Elena Fernandez, Molly Fitzpatrick, Chris Heller, E. Who else has amassed true cultural capital? Who can bring home north of $1 million annually, or get cast in a Hollywood blockbuster? Here, after talking to talent agents, managers and club bookers, as well as studying social-media influence, career longevity, and each queen’s “charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent,” we rank America’s top-100 Drag Race superstars.

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