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.