Robert Watts

Touring remains the big earner for many of the stadium-filling acts on our musicians' list, but the Covid outbreak has wrecked concert plans and so we expect the wealth of many of these musicians will flatline over the coming year.

Rihanna typifies the seismic change we've seen in the Rich List in recent years. Once dominated by inherited wealth, the bulk of our 1,000 entries are now self-made people with modest and even troubled starts in life who are driven to work exceptionally hard.