ROLLING 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