The 2016 Sunday Times Rich List

sunday times rich list 2016ROLLING STONES WEALTHIEST BAND – WITH £630 MILLION,

AHEAD OF U2 – JOINTLY WORTH £500 MILLION

 

ADELE’S FORTUNE GROWS BY £35 MILLION T0 £85 MILLION

 

DJ CALVIN HARRIS HAS £95 MILLION FORTUNE

 

Adele, who has added £35m to her personal fortune in a year, tops the Young Music Rich List of performers aged 30 and under. The 27-year-old singer is now worth £85m, and rises to 30th place in the overall 2016 Sunday Times list of the wealthiest of performers and composers in Britain and Ireland.

 

The Music Millionaires top 50 is released today, ahead of the 28th annual Sunday Times Rich List to be published this weekend. Adele, Britain’s richest ever female musician, has benefited from the worldwide success of her long-awaited third album, 25, released last November. The London-born singer/songwriter is now hard on the heels of Ireland’s wealthiest female performer, Enya, who is worth £91m, up just £1m on 2015.

 

The Rolling Stones – Sir Mick Jagger, worth £235m; Keith Richards, £220m; Charlie Watts, £120m; and Ronnie Wood, £55m – with combined fortunes of £630m, up £40m on 2015, are the wealthiest band in Britain and Ireland, ahead of U2 with a joint fortune of £500m, an increase of £69m on the 2015 Sunday Times Music Rich List. U2 was the highest-grossing rock act last year selling 1.29m tickets worth £66m for 76 concerts.

 

The 2016 Sunday Times Music Rich List is headed by Sir Paul McCartney, who with his wife Nancy Shevell, shares a joint fortune of £760m, up £30m on last year. American-born Shevell has a £150m stake in her father’s New England Motor Freight trucking operation.

 

Calvin Harris, the Dumfries-born international DJ, who writes, sings, records, remixes and produces his own music, has seen his personal wealth leap by £25m in a year to rank him at 27 in the 2016 Top 50, worth £95m.

 

David Bowie’s widow and his filmmaker son by his first marriage to Angie, Iman Abdulmajid and Duncan Jones, join this year’s list with a joint family fortune of £90m, based on the £70m from Bowie’s will, their own wealth and royalties from the chart success of Bowie’s music after his death.

 

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2016

THE TOP 50 MUSIC MILLIONAIRES IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND

 

2016

rank

2015

rank

Name 2016

wealth

Wealth increase,

unless indicated

 

1 1 Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell £760m £30m
2 2 Lord Lloyd-Webber £715m £65m
3 3 U2 £500m £69m
4 4 Sir Elton John £280m £10m
5 5 Sir Mick Jagger £235m £10m
6= New Olivia and Dhani Harrison £220m £20m
6= 6 Keith Richards £220m £10m
8 8= Ringo Starr £200m £20m
9 7 Michael Flatley £198m £3m
10 8= Sting £185m £5m
11= 11 Eric Clapton £160m £5m
11= 12= Rod Stewart £160m £10m
11= 10 Roger Waters £160m No change
14 12= Sir Tom Jones £155m £5m
15 12= Sir Tim Rice £150m No change
16 15= Robbie Williams £145m £10m
17 17 Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne £135m £5m
18= 18= Brian May £120m £10m
18= 18= Charlie Watts £120m £10m
20 21= Roger Taylor £115m £10m
21 18= Phil Collins £110m No change
22= 21= George Michael £105m No change
22= 23= Jimmy Page £105m £5m
24 23= Robert Plant £103m £3m
25= 27 John Deacon £100m £15m
25= 25= David Gilmour £100m £10m
27 30= Calvin Harris £95m £25m
28 25= Enya £91m £1m
29 New Iman Abdulmajid and Duncan Jones and family £90m
30 43= Adele £85m £35m
31= 33= Gary Barlow £75m £10m
31= 30= Mark Knopfler £75m £5m
31= 29 Nick Mason £75m No change
31= 30= Pete Townshend £75m £5m
35 33= Engelbert Humperdinck £70m £5m
36= 28 Noel and Liam Gallagher £65m  Down £12m
36= 43= Brian Johnson £65m £15m
36= 39= Chris Martin £65m £13m
39= 35= Barry Gibb £60m No change
39= 35= John Paul Jones £60m No change
41 37= Sir Cliff Richard £58m £3m
42= 39= Guy Berryman £55m £3m
42= 39= Jonny Buckland £55m £3m
42= 39= Will Champion £55m £3m
42= 37= Kylie Minogue £55m No change
42= 46= Ronnie Wood £55m £10m
47= 46= Jay Kay £50m £5m
47= 43= Sir Van Morrison £50m No change
49= 46= Peter Gabriel £45m No change
49= 50 Mick Hucknall £45m £5m
49= New Ed Sheeran £45m New
49= 46= Bernie Taupin £45m No change

 

Britain and Ireland’s wealthiest young band, with all the members aged under 30, is One Direction, with a combined wealth of £132m. The four musicians in the One Direction line up, Niall Horan, aged 22, Liam Payne, 22, Harry Styles, 22, and Louis Tomlinson, 24, have each added £8m to their personal fortunes in a year and are individually each worth £33m, up from £25m last year.

 

Former One Direction member Zayn Malik, 23, has added £5m to his personal wealth, now worth £30m, helped by the success of his debut solo album, Mind of Mine, which topped the sales charts in the UK and the US this month.

 

Sam Smith and Florence Welch, who were new entries in the Young Rich List  in 2015, worth £12m, have both added £8m to their personal wealth to join the Young Musicians Top 10 – each with fortunes of £20m.

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2016

THE 10 RICHEST YOUNG MUSICIANS

IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND (Aged 30 or under)

 

2016

rank

2015

rank

Name 2016  wealth Wealth increase

 

1 1 Adele £85m £35m
2 7 Ed Sheeran £45m £25m
3= 2= Niall Horan £33m £8m
3= 2= Liam Payne £33m £8m
3= 2= Harry Styles £33m £8m
3= 2= Louis Tomlinson £33m £8m
7 2= Zayn Malik £30m £5m
8= New Sam Smith £20m £8m
8= New Florence Welch £20m £8m
10 8= Ellie Goulding £17m £4m

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST – 148 PAGES ON APRIL 24

 

The 2016 Sunday Times Rich List – the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland – is published on Sunday, April 24. The 148-page special edition of The Sunday Times Magazine is the biggest issue of the Rich List ever published since it first appeared in 1989. It charts the wealth of the 1,000 richest people in the UK and the 250 richest in Ireland. The list is based on identifiable wealth, including land, property, other assets such as art and racehorses, or significant shares in publicly quoted companies. It excludes bank accounts, to which the paper has no access.

 

The Sunday Times Rich List is compiled by Philip Beresford and Robert Watts, and edited by Ian Coxon. The complete list will be available to all the paper’s digital members and will be fully-searchable online at thesundaytimes.co.uk/richlist

 

With thanks to The Sunday Times Rich List

 

 

27th Annual Sunday Times Rich List 2015 Who Made It?

sunday times rich list 2015 , sunday times rich list, 2015, 27th, rich, moneyFrost did not make it onto the Sunday Times Rich List this year. Oh well, there is always next year. Still touring at the age of 72, Sir Paul McCartney is the wealthiest entertainer in Britain and Ireland with a £730m fortune which is boosted by the personal wealth of his wife Nancy Shevell, who has a £150m stake in her family’s US trucking business.

 

The fortunes of the richest performers and composers – old and young – are revealed in the 27th annual Sunday Times Rich List – the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland – published this weekend, on April 26, in a special 128-page issue of The Sunday Times Magazine.

 

Newcomer to the top 40 music millionaires chart is Dumfries-born DJ Calvin Harris, aged 31 and worth £70m. Harris is reported to earn up to $1m a night as the world’s highest-paid DJ, appearing in clubs and at festivals from Las Vegas to Ibiza. Last year, he became the first UK solo artist to clock up more than a billion Spotify streams, worth £4m, and his track Summer was the number one iTunes download in 40 territories.

 

The four members of Dublin band U2 – Paul Hewson (Bono), 54, Adam Clayton, 55, Dave Evans (the Edge), 53, and Larry Mullen, 53 – have made most of their £431m fortune from touring. Guy Berryman, 38, Johnny Buckland, 37, Will Champion, 36, and Chris Martin, 38, the four members of Coldplay are each worth £52m, giving them a combined fortune of £208m.

 

The wealth of Phil Collins, 64, is down by £5m this year to £110m because the Geneva-based former drummer and singer with Genesis, who has sold 250m records, has announced that he has given some of his fortune to his children.

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2015

THE TOP 40 MUSIC MILLIONAIRES IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND

2015

rank

2014

rank

Name 2015

wealth

Wealth increase,

unless indicated

1 (1) Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell £730m £20m
2 (2) Lord Lloyd-Webber £650m £10m
3 (3) U2 £431m £3m
4 (4) Sir Elton John £270m £10m
5 (5) Sir Mick Jagger £225m £10m
6 (6) Keith Richards £210m £10m
7 (7) Michael Flatley £195m £2m
8= (9) Ringo Starr £180m £10m
8= (8) Sting £180m £0m
10 10) Roger Waters £160m £0m
11 (11=) Eric Clapton £155m £5m
12= (13) Sir Tom Jones £150m £5m
12= (11=) Sir Tim Rice £150m £0m
12= (14) Rod Stewart £150m £10m
15= (15) David Bowie and Iman Abdulmajid £135m £0m
15= (17) Robbie Williams £135m £15m
17 (16) Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne £130m £0m
18= (18) Phil Collins £110m Down £5m
18= (19=) Brian May £110m £5m
18= (21=) Charlie Watts £110m £10m
21= (19=) George Michael £105m £0m
21= (21=) Roger Taylor £105m £5m
23= (21=) Jimmy Page £100m £0m
23= (21=) Robert Plant £100m £0m
25= (25) Enya £90m £2m
25= (26) David Gilmour £90m £5m
27 (27) John Deacon £85m £10m
28 (28) Noel and Liam Gallagher £77m £3m
29 (29=) Nick Mason £75m £5m
30= (new) Calvin Harris £70m (new)
30= (29=) Mark Knopfler £70m £0m
30= (29=) Pete Townshend £70m £0m
33= (32=) Gary Barlow £65m £0m
33= (32=) Engelbert Humperdinck £65m £0m
35= (34=) Barry Gibb £60m £0m
35= (34=) John Paul Jones £60m £0m
37= (37=) Kylie Minogue £55m £5m
37= (36) Sir Cliff Richard £55m £0m
39= (37=) Guy Berryman £52m £2m
39= (37=) Jonny Buckland £52m £2m
39= (37=) Will Champion £52m £2m
39= (37=) Chris Martin £52m £2m

 

Singer and songwriter Adele, aged 26, heads the list of young musicians with a £50m fortune, up £5m on last year. Each member of One Direction has seen their personal wealth grow by £11m in the past 12 months, giving the four current members of the band – Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson – a combined fortune of £100m. Zayn Malik, who left One Direction last month, is also worth £25m.

 

At £45m, Arctic Monkeys are the second wealthiest young band, with Matt Helders and Nick O’Malley each worth £10m, while Jamie Cook shares a £12m fortune with his wife Katie Downes, who has made £2m from her career as a model. Alex Turner, who has other music interests, is worth £13m.

 

Mumford and Sons, worth a total of £37m, are the third richest young band in Britain and Ireland, aged 30 and under. Band members Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett and Winston Marshall are each worth £8m, while Marcus Mumford is jointly worth £13m with his wife Carey Mulligan.

 

Although no longer performing, the four members of JLS have a combined fortune of £30m. JB Gill, Aston Merrygold and Oritse Williams are each worth £7m, while Marvin Humes shares a £9m fortune with his wife Rochelle, who is a member of the Saturdays.

 

The only newcomer to the Young Musicians Rich List is 22-year-old singing sensation Sam Smith. The Cambridgeshire crooner, who writes his own material and won two Brit Awards and four Grammys last year, already his £12m to his name on the strength of album sales and future tours.

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2015

THE 20 RICHEST YOUNG MUSICIANS

IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND (Aged 30 or under)

2015

rank

2014

rank

Name 2015  wealth Wealth increase

 

1 (1) Adele £50m £5m
2= (4=) Niall Horan £25m £11m
2= (4=) Zayn Malik £25m £11m
2= (4=) Liam Payne £25m £11m
2= (4=) Harry Styles £25m £11m
2= (4=) Louis Tomlinson £25m £11m
7 (23=) Ed Sheeran £20m £13m
8= (23=) Ellie Goulding £13m £6m
8= (12=) Jessie J £13m £3m
8= (9=) Leona Lewis £13m £0m
8= (11) Katie Melua £13m £1m
8= (9=) Marcus Mumford and Carey Mulligan £13m £0m
8= (14) Alex Turner £13m £4m
14= (23=) Jamie Cook and Katie Downes £12m £5m
14= (new) Sam Smith £12m (new)
14= (12=) Florence Welch £12m £2m
17= (23=) Matt Helders £10m £3m
17= (15=) Olly Murs £10m £2m
17= (23=) Nick O’Malley £10m £3m
20 (23=) Marvin and Rochelle Humes £9m £2m

                                                                                                                

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST – 128 PAGES ON APRIL 26

 

The 2015 Sunday Times Rich List – the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland – is published on Sunday, April 26. The 128-page special edition of The Sunday Times Magazine is the biggest issue of the Rich List ever published since it first appeared in 1989. It charts the wealth of the 1,000 richest people in the UK and the 250 richest in Ireland. The list is based on identifiable wealth, including land, property, other assets such as art and racehorses, or significant shares in publicly quoted companies. It excludes bank accounts, to which the paper has no access.

 

The Sunday Times Rich List is compiled by Philip Beresford, the leading British expert on wealth, and edited by Ian Coxon. The complete list will be available to all the paper’s digital members and will be fully searchable online at thesundaytimes.co.uk/richlist

 

Source: The Sunday Times Rich List

 

Simon Cowell Joins Sunday Times Rich List. Who's Up and Down This Year.

SIMON COWELL JOINS RICH LIST
MUSIC TOP 10 WITH £200m FORTUNE

KATHERINE JENKINS WITH £13m FORTUNE PIPS CHERYL COLE, WITH £12m, TO HEAD YOUNG MUSIC MILLIONAIRES TOP 20

ADELE AT £6m, FLORENCE WELCH £5m, TAIO CRUZ £5m, ARE NEW ENTRIES IN YOUNG TOP 20

U2 HEAD IRISH MUSIC CHART WITH £455m

X-Factor judge Simon Cowell has amassed a personal fortune of £200m to place him at number six in the annual Music Millionaires Top 50, published in The Sunday Times Rich List 2011 this weekend.

The 23rdannual Sunday Times Rich List – the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland – is published as an extra 104-page magazine, free with the paper on Sunday.

The Music Millionaires Top 50 is headed by Clive Calder, with a £1,300m fortune made from the sale of Zomba Records in 2002. New entries include AC/DC’s lead singer Brian Johnson, born in Gateshead, who is worth £50m, and Moya Doherty and John McColgan, worth £70m, who own the Irish dance show Riverdance.

Katherine Jenkins, worth £13m – up £2m on 2010, tops the young music millionaires chart of people aged 30 and under ahead of Cheryl Cole, Leona Lewis and Katie Melua, who all have £12m fortunes. The top new entry in the young music millionaires chart is Adele at ninth equal with a £6m fortune. Two more new entries are Taio Cruz and Florence Welch, each worth £5m.

U2 with a combined fortune of £455m, up by £26m from last year – see table below, head the list of Irish music millionaires who appear among Ireland’s Richest 250 in The Sunday Times Rich List 2011.

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2011
TOP 50 MUSIC MILLIONAIRES

Music rank 2011

Music rank 2010

Name

2011 wealth

2010 wealth

Difference
(+/-)

Clive Calder

£1,300m

£1,300m

No change

Lord Lloyd-Webber

£680m

£700m

-£20m

Sir Cameron Mackintosh

£675m

£635m

+ £40m

Sir Paul McCartney

£495m

£475m

+ £20m

Simon Fuller

£375m

£350m

+ £25m

Simon Cowell

£200m

£165m

+ £35m

Sir Elton John

£195m

£185m

+ £10m

Sir Mick Jagger

£190m

£190m

No change

Sting

£180m

£180m

No change

Keith Richards

£175m

£175m

No change

Olivia and Dhani Harrison

£170m

£160m

+ £10m

David and Victoria Beckham

£165m

£145m

+ £20m
13=

Jamie Palumbo

£150m

£150m

No change
13=

15=

Ringo Starr

£150m

£140m

+ £10m
15

15=

Sir Tim Rice

£143m

£140m

+ £3m

Sir Tom Jones

£140m

£135m

+ £5m

Eric Clapton

£125m

£125m

No change

Roger Ames

£120m

£120m

No change
19=

Phil Colins

£115m

£108m

+ £7m
19=

Rod Stewart

£115m

£105m

+ £10m

Barry and Robin Gibb

£110m

£110m

No change

26=

Roger Waters

£105m

£85m

+ £20m

David Bowie

£100m

£100m

No change

Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne

£95m

£95m

No change
25=

George Michael

£90m

£90m

No change
25=

26=

Robbie Williams

£90m

£85m

+ £5m
27=

David Gilmour

£85m

£78m

+ £7m
27=

33=

Brian May

£85m

£75m

+ £10m
27=

26=

Charlie Watts

£85m

£85m

No change
30=

29=

Chris Blackwell

£80m

£80m

No change
30=

29=

Robert Plant

£80m

£80m

No change
30=

Roger Taylor

£80m

£70m

+£10m

33=

Jimmy Page

£75m

£75m

No change
34=

Moya Doherty and John McGolgan

£70m

_

_
34=

36

Chris Wright

£70m

£64m

+ £6m

38=

John Deacon

£65m

£60m

+ £5m

Noel and Liam Gallagher

£63m

£55m

+ £8m
38=

29=

Judy Craymer

£62m

£80m

– £18m
38=

Mark Knopfler

£62m

£62m

No change

38=

Engelbert Humperdinck

£60m

£60m

No change

41=

Nick Mason

£50m

£50m

No change
42=

Brian Johnson

£50m


42=

41=

Van Morrison

£50m

£50m

No change
42=

41=

Sir Cliff Richard

£50m

£50m

No change

44=

Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow

£48m

£45m

+ £3m

44=

John Paul Jones

£45m

£45m

No change
47=

50=

Mick Hucknall

£40m

£35m

+ £5m
47=

50=

Kylie Minogue

£40m

£35m

+ £5m
47=

46=

Bernie Taupin

£40m

£40m

No change
47=

46=

Pete Townshend

£40m

£40m

No change

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2011
TOP 20 YOUNG MUSIC MILLIONAIRES (aged 30 and under)

Young
Music rank
2011

YoungMusic
rank
2010

Name

2011 wealth

2010 wealth

Difference
(+/-)

1=

Katherine Jenkins

£13m

£11m

+£2m

Cheryl Cole

£12m

£10m

+£2m
2=

1=

Leona Lewis

£12m

£11m

+£1m
2=

4=

Katie Melua

£12m

£10m

+£2m

Joss Stone

£9m

£9m

No change
6=

1=

Charlotte Church

£8m

£11m

-£3m
6=

Craig David

£8m

£8m

No change

9=

Paolo Nutini

£7m

£5m

+£2m
9=

New entry

Adele

£6m

_
9=

9=

Lily Allen

£6m

£5m

+£1m
9=

Natasha Bedingfield

£6m

£6m

No change
9=

9=

Duffy

£6m

£5m

+£1m
9=

9=

Amy Winehouse

£6m

£5m

+£1m
14=

9=

Nadine Coyle

£5m

£5m

No change
14=

New entry

Taio Cruz

£5m

_
14=

9=

Sarah Harding

£5m

£5m

No change
14=

9=

James Morrison

£5m

£5m

No change
14=

9=

Nicola Roberts

£5m

£5m

No change
14=

9=

Kimberley Walsh

£5m

£5m

No change
14=

New entry

Florence Welch

£5m

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2011
THE MUSIC MILLIONAIRES IN IRELAND’S RICHEST 250

Irish
Music rank
2011

Irish
Music
rank
2010

Name

2011 wealth

2010 wealth

Difference
(+/-)

U2

£455m

£429m

+£26m

Michael Flatley

£214m

£241m

-£27m

Denis and Caroline Desmond

£185m

£186m

-£1m

Enya

£85m

£85m

No change

Moya Doherty and John McColgan (Riverdance)

£70m

£72m

-£2m

Van Morrison

£350m

£50m

No change
7=

7=

Chris de Burgh

£32m

£31m

£1m
7=

New entry

Bob Geldof

£32m

_
7=

7=

Westlife

£32m

£31m

+£1

The 23rd annual Sunday Times Rich List – the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland – is published in a special 104-page supplement, which profiles the 1,000 richest people and families in the UK and the 250 richest across Ireland. The list is based on identifiable wealth (land, property, other assets such as art and racehorses, or significant shares in publicly quoted companies), and excludes bank accounts (to which the paper has no access).

The Sunday Times Rich List 2011 is compiled by Philip Beresford, the leading authority on British wealth, and edited by Ian Coxon. Ireland’s richest 250 is compiled by Colm Murphy.