Sunday Times Rich List 2013: Who Made The List

Spread the love

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY IS WEALTHIEST MUSIC MILLIONAIRE, WITH £680 MILLION FORTUNE IN 25th ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 

ADELE TOPS LIST OF YOUNG MUSIC MILLIONAIRES WITH A £30 MILLION FORTUNE 

McCARTNEY TOPPED 1993 MUSIC RICH LIST, WORTH £400 MILLION, AND HAD £80 MILLION IN 1989 

adele pregnant. tom cruise and kate holmes divorcing. The 25th anniversary Sunday Times Rich List, to be published on April 21, 2013, will reveal that Sir Paul McCartney is the country’s richest performer, topping the list of the 50 wealthiest music millionaires in Britain and Ireland. He has a £680m fortune, which is shared with his wife Nancy Shevell.

McCartney, 70, has topped all the charts for the country’s wealthiest musicians since The Sunday Times Rich List began in 1989, when the former Beatle was worth £80m. By 1993, the McCartney fortune had grown to £400m.

Aside from starring roles at the Queen’s diamond jubilee and closing the opening ceremony for the London Olympics, McCartney’s On the Run tour grossed $57m from 18 dates in 2012. The tour has helped add £15m to his fortune, which, at £680m, includes £150m for wife Nancy Shevell’s stake in her father’s New England Motor Freight trucking operation.

Profits from his hugely successful stage shows, such as Phantom of the Opera, Evita and Cats, have helped to boost composer and theatre owner Lord Lloyd-Webber’s fortune by £30m to keep him in second place in the Music Rich List, worth £620m. Lloyd-Webber also held second place in the 1993 Rich List of the top UK music millionaires with a £200m fortune, ahead of Elton John, who is now worth double his 1993 wealth of £120m.

The Sunday Times only started to measure wealth in Ireland as part of its annual Rich List in 1997.

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2013

THE 50 WEALTHIEST MUSIC MILLIONAIRES IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND

This list excludes music company owners and producers

Music rank2013 Name 2013 wealth 2012 wealth
1 Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell £680m £665m
2 Lord Lloyd-Webber £620m £590m
3 U2 £520m £514m
4 Sir Elton John £240m £220m
5= David and Victoria Beckham £200m £190m
5= Sir Mick Jagger £200m £190m
7 Michael Flatley £191m £192m
8 Keith Richards £185m £175m
9= Olivia and Dhani Harrison £180m £180m
9= Sting £180m £180m
11 Ringo Starr £160m £160m
12 Roger Waters £150m £120m
13 Sir Tim Rice £149m £144m
14 Sir Tom Jones £145m £140m
15 Eric Clapton £140m £130m
16 Rod Stewart £130m £120m
17 Phil Collins £115m £115m
18= George Michael £105m £100m
18= Robbie Williams £105m £100m
20= David Bowie £100m £100m
20= Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne £100m £95m
22 Brian May £95m £90m
23= Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow £90m £72m
23= Roger Taylor £90m £85m
23= Charlie Watts £90m £85m
26 Enya £87m £86m
27 David Gilmour £85m £85m
28= Jimmy Page £80m £75m
28= Robert Plant £80m £80m
30= John Deacon £74m £70m
30= Noel and Liam Gallagher £74m £65m
32 Pete Townshend £70m £40m
33= Engelbert Humperdinck £65m £65m
33= Mark Knopfler £65m £65m
35= Gary Barlow £60m £50m
35= Barry Gibb £60m New
37 Nick Mason £55m £55m
38 Sir Cliff Richard £52m £52m
39= Guy Berryman £50m £40m
39= Jonny Buckland £50m £40m
39= Will Champion £50m £40m
39= Brian Johnson £50m £50m
39= John Paul Jones £50m £45m
39= Kylie Minogue £50m £45m
39= Van Morrison £50m £50m
46= Jay Kay £45m £40m
46= Bernie Taupin £45m £45m
48= Mick Hucknall £40m £40m
48= Sade £40m £40m
50 Sarah Brightman £36m New

                                                                                                                

In the 1993 Sunday Times Rich List, Paul McCartney was also Britain’s richest performer with a £400m fortune. There were 15 music millionaires, see below, in the 1993 Rich List which measured the wealth of the 400 richest people in Britain, with David Bowie ranked 15th in the music list worth £20m.

The only two musicians to appear in the first Sunday Times Rich List of 200 names published in 1989 were Paul McCartney, who was worth £80m, and Elton John, with a £40m fortune.

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 1993

TOP UK 15 MUSIC MILLIONAIRES

Excluding music company owners and producers

Music rank1993 Name 1993 wealth
1 Paul McCartney £400m
2 Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber £200m
3 Elton John £120m
4 Mick Jagger £90m
5 George Michael £80m
6 Keith Richards £70m
7 Mark Knopfler £60m
8 Cliff Richard £45m
9 Bernard Taupin £35m
10 Dave Stewart £30m
11= George Harrison £25m
11= Rod Stewart £25m
13 Bill Wyman £24m
14 Phil Collins £22m
15 David Bowie £20m

 

Adele tops the 2013 Young Music Rich List, of entertainers aged 30 and under, see below, with a £30m fortune. With the continued worldwide success of her album 21, this is a 50% increase on the £20m fortune the Oscar-winning singer-songwriter topped the Young Music Rich List with in 2012.

New entries to the Young Music  Millionaires Rich List, each worth £5m, include singer-songwriters Emeli Sandé, aged 26, Ed Sheeran, 22, and all five members of One Direction, Niall Horan, 19, Zayn Malik, 20, Liam Payne, 19, Harry Styles,19, and Louis Tomlinson, 21.

One Direction have become Britain’s richest boy band, with combined wealth of £25m. This puts them just £1m ahead of the combined wealth of the four members of JLS, Jonathan (JB) Gill, 26, Marvin Humes, 28, Aston Merrygold, 25, and Ortisé Williams, 26, who now share a total fortune of £24m, being each worth £6m.

 

THE SUNDAY TIMES RICH LIST 2013

YOUNG MUSIC MILLIONAIRES IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND

AGED 30 AND UNDER

Music rank2013 Name 2013 wealth 2012 wealth
1 Adele £30m £20m
2 Cheryl Cole £14m £12m
3= Leona Lewis £12m £12m
3= Katie Melua £12m £12m
5 Florence Welch £9m £7m
6= Charlotte Church £8m £8m
6= Jessie J £8m £5m
8= Lily Allen £6m £6m
8= Nadine Coyle £6m £5m
8= Duffy £6m £6m
8= Jonathan (JB) Gill £6m £5m
8= Marvin Humes £6m £5m
8= Aston Merrygold £6m £5m
8= James Morrison £6m £6m
8= Nicola Roberts £6m £5m
8= Oritsé Williams £6m £5m
17= Niall Horan £5m New
17= Zayn Malik £5m New
17= Liam Payne £5m New
17= Emeli Sandé £5m New
17= Ed Sheeran £5m New
17= Harry Styles £5m New
17= Louis Tomlinson £5m New

 

The 25th annual Sunday Times Rich List – the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland – is published on April 21 in a special 104-page supplement, which profiles the 1,000 richest people and families in the UK and the wealthiest 250 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. This year, a £75m fortune is required to make it into the top 1,000 in the Rich List.

The Sunday Times Rich List 2013 is compiled by Philip Beresford, the leading authority on British wealth, and edited by Ian Coxon.

The Sunday Times Rich List