Top 20 Richest Musicians of All Time

Music Stars are unique for their glamour. With the glamour comes the money or rather; the the money comes the glamour.

Below are the Top 20 Richest Music Star of All Time measured in terms of Assets:



Andrew Lloyd Webber is worth $1.2 billion
Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway.

He attended the press night performance of “School Of Rock: The Musical” at The New London Theatre, Drury Lane, on November 14, 2016 in London, England.



Sir Paul McCartney is worth $800 million
Sir James Paul McCartney is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. He gained worldwide fame with the rock band the Beatles, largely considered the most popular and influential group in the history of pop music.

He was listed as the most successful composer and recording artist of all time by Guinness. In addition to royalties from the Beatles back catalog, which tops the charts with each reissue, he’s reported to own more than 25,000 other copyrights, and his post-Beatles musical career has sold big time.



3. Bono is worth $600 million

Paul David Hewson is known by his stage name Bono. He is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock band U2.

His U2’s “360 Tour” grossed nearly $800 million between 2009 and 2011, making it the biggest tour ever.

Bing Crosby is worth $550 million
Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby, Jr. was an American singer and actor. Crosby’s trademark warm bass-baritone voice made him the best-selling recording artist of the 20th century. He sold over one billion records, tapes, compact discs and digital downloads around the world.

His popular song “I Haven’t Time to Be A Millionaire” was incredibly wealthy. Crosby ranked among the 10 richest Americans in the 1930s—before he sang “White Christmas” and became one of the biggest movie stars of the ’40s.



Sean “Diddy” Combs is worth $550 million
Sean John Combs also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and Diddy, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer and entrepreneur.

P.Diddy has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and is the producer of MTV’s Making the Band.

He partnered with Sean John and developed a clothing line with appeal beyond rap, to the tune of more than $100 million in annual profits.



Mariah Carey is worth $500 million
Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. According to the RIAA, she is the third-best-selling female artist in the United States, with 63.5 million certified albums.



Jay Z is worth $475 million
Shawn Corey Carter, popularly known as Jay Z, is an American rapper, businessman, and investor. He is one of the best-selling musicians of all time. He has sold more than 100 million records and received 21 Grammy Awards for his music.

He is CEO of Def Jam, co-founded his Roc Nation entertainment conglomerate with Live Nation in 2008.



Dolly Parton is worth $450 million
Parton is the most honored female country performer of all time. Achieving 25 RIAA certified Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum awards, she has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist. She has 41 career top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career charted singles over the past 40 years.

Dolly with her popular song “9 to 5″ is worth nearly half a billion dollars, due to a tireless work ethic. She does primarily via Dollywood, a theme park she bought and rebranded in 1986, and which draws millions to its gates each year.



Jimmy Buffett is worth $400 million
James William also called Jimmy Buffett is an American musician, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett has recorded hit songs including “Margaritaville”. His lucrative tours with titles like “Last Mango in Paris,” “Beach House on the Moon,” and “Summerzcool raked in $22 million



Michael Jackson worths $350 million
He was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor, and philanthropist known as the “King of Pop”.

His music videos, including those of “Beat It”, “Billie Jean”, and “Thriller” from his 1982 album Thriller, are credited with breaking racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool.

Forbes ranks Jackson as the top-earning dead celebrity, with yearly earnings of $825 million in 2016, the highest ever recorded by the publication.

Garth Brooks is worth $325 million
According to the RIAA, he is the best-selling solo albums artist in the United States with 135 million domestic units sold, ahead of Elvis Presley, and is second only to The Beatles in total album sales overall.[3] He is also one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 160 million records.



Gene Autry worths $320 million
Orvon Grover “Gene” Autry was an American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels



Mick Jagger is worth $305 million
Sir Michael Philip “Mick” Jagger is an English singer, songwriter and actor, the lead singer and a co-founder of the Rolling Stones.

They’ve got three of the top 10 grossing tours of all time—accounting for more than a billion dollars—and they’ve already sold 364,864 tickets for a forthcoming five-date tour in London and New York.

Gene Simmons worths $300 million
Simmons’ ridiculously popular reality series Family Jewels may have gotten axed, but the crotchety rocker is still raking in revenues from exceedingly lucrative tours (2008-09’s “Kiss Alive/35 World Tour” raked in over $30 million alone), and enough branded merchandise (condoms, a coffin, a credit card, among the stranger things) to satiate generations of KISS Army veterans. When you have to hire Live Nation to manage your merchandising and licensing, you know you have a lot of things with your name attached to them.



Beyonce is worth $300 million
Throughout her career, she has sold over 100 million records as a solo artist and a further 60 million with Destiny’s Child making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She has won 22 Grammy Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award’s history. She is the most awarded artist at the MTV Video Music Awards, with 24 wins. The Recording Industry Association of America recognized her as the Top Certified Artist in America.

Elton John is worth $300 million
Elton John has sold more than 300 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world. He has more than fifty Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 58 Billboard Top 40 singles, 27 Top 10, four No. 2 and nine No. 1.

In the ’70s, his albums alone have sold upwards of 22 million copies to date, and whose rebooted version of “Candle in the Wind” has itself sold 33 million copies.



Ringo Starr is worth $300 million
Ringo Starr is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He benefited from his association with three of the most beloved singer-songwriters in history, but he also quietly reinvented the boundaries of rock drumming in the 1960s (just listen to “Strawberry Fields Forever” or “I Want You [She’s So Heavy]” again), and his unique way with nonsensical verbal phrasing resulted in the titles for “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Tomorrow Never Knows.”



Sting is worth $290 million
With “The Police” Sting became one of the world’s best-selling music artists. Solo and with The Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records. In 2006, Paste ranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters.He was 63rd of VH1’s 100 greatest artists of rock and 80th of Q magazine’s 100 greatest musical stars of 20th century



Dr. Dre is worth $250 million
Andre Romelle Young popularly called Dr. Dre, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics.

He has won six Grammy Awards, including Producer of the Year. Dr. Dre has also had acting roles in movies such as Set It Off, The Wash and Training Day. Rolling Stone ranked Dre at 56 on their list of “100 Greatest Artists of All-Time”.



50 Cent is worth $250 million
Curtis James Jackson III ’50 Cent’ is an American rapper, actor, businessman, and investor.

Jackson has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and won several awards, including a Grammy Award, thirteen Billboard Music Awards, six World Music Awards, three American Music Awards and four BET Award

The G-Unit capo got Eminem’s attention with a 2002 mixtape, and sold 872,000 first-week copies of Get Rich or Die Tryin’ the next year. Fiddy’s sales may have declined over the last decade, but he’s still got three platinum records, and one gold. And he knows how to hedge his bets: There’s the $100 million dollar Vitamin Water payout, the video game, the headphone line, the Ecko-affiliated clothing line that brought in $60 million in 2006 alone.

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