Music Millionaires top 50

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 30^th 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 28^th 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