World's Top Ten Richest Recording Artists

wealthx.com recently released their list of the top 10 richest record artists:

RANK NAME AGE NET WORTH
(US$ MILLIONS)
1 Madonna Ciccone (age 56) 800
2 Paul McCartney (age 72) 660
3 Andre Romelle Young (Dr. Dre) (age 49) 650
4 Sean John Combs (Diddy, Puffy, Puff Daddy) (age 45) 640
5 Celine Dion (age 46) 630
6 Paul David Hewson (Bono) (age 54) 590
7 Mariah Carey (age 44) 520
8 Shawn Corey Carter (Jay-Z, Hova, Jigga) (age 45) 510
9 Sir Elton Hercules John (age 67) 450
10 Beyoncé Knowles-Carter (age 33) 440

Elton John real name is Reginald Dwight if we're being official.

Madonna closing in on being a billionaire? Too bad she sucks.

What's the top 10 richest IDM overlords?

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:39 PM, th555 said:

What's the top 10 richest IDM overlords?

i think vsnare has about $20 to his name so hes probably the wealthiest

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:51 PM, AAAAh said:

 

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:39 PM, th555 said:

What's the top 10 richest IDM overlords?

i think vsnare has about $20 to his name so hes probably the wealthiest

Paul David Hewson deserves every penny for giving the world Eve Hewson.

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:55 PM, feltcher said:

 

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:51 PM, AAAAh said:

 

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:39 PM, th555 said:

What's the top 10 richest IDM overlords?

i think vsnare has about $20 to his name so hes probably the wealthiest

He spent his fortunes on eBay buying leads for his synths

 

winnar (comment wise)

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:57 PM, doublename said:

Paul David Hewson deserves every penny for giving the world Eve Hewson.

Typical bono missing the point. Check this out, although maybe it's an (doesn't say it).

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Hewson was born in Dublin, the second daughter of activist Ali Hewson (née Alison Stewart) and U2 lead singer Bono (Paul David Hewson). She was named after being born at 7am on 7 July, as "eve" is the middle of the word "seven".

 

But my dear boy, if she was born at 7am when is that? Why it's the morning, early in the daylight hours. When is it not? the evening. Therefore it's kind of counter intuitive when you think it through, so if you were going for a time of day name, instead of some convoluted and obscure raping of the innards of the number seven, why not call the wee lass Dawn.

Can we all just take a minute to appreciate this...

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:29 PM, Joyrex said:

Sir Elton Hercules John

*appreciates*

  On 12/3/2014 at 12:41 AM, valleyinaire said:

 

Can we all just take a minute to appreciate this...

 

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:29 PM, Joyrex said:

 

Sir Elton Hercules John

I thought Bowie would be on there.

You thought wrong.

Or perhaps he has an better tax minimization specialist.

Holy shit

- the director of moon is david bowie's son, duncan jones (formally known as zowie bowie (how can these artists write such music (admittedly bowie has been off the boil for most of his career) and yet be such child naming gits)).

- duncan is the co-author and director of the world of warcraft film

Surprised no one from Rolling Stones or Pink Floyd is on the list, or Diana Ross for that matter, they've been earning a lot longer than acts like Madonna. I guess splitting revenue with band mates takes a chunk.

How does Madonna make more money than McCartney?

There's an off colour Jewish joke in there somewhere...

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:29 PM, Joyrex said:

5 Celine Dion (age 46) 630

  On 12/3/2014 at 3:16 PM, paranerd said:

How does Madonna make more money than McCartney?

 

There's an off colour Jewish joke in there somewhere...

Her "film career"

Jay-Z is a train wreck of a man. Too coy to do interviews, too egotistical to stay the fuck out of the public spotlight. He has Beyonce and Solange on puppet strings until one day Solange's string's snapped and she had use of her arms in that elevator. Absolute freaks.

Nothing has been spoken of the incident ever since.

How much of these peoples wealth is from music only? I can imagine Diddy's getting a sizeable chunk from all the non-music business he's involved in.

Imagine Hercules being your middle name though.. >

Really Diddy? It's not a surprise really but jeez :/

  On 12/3/2014 at 2:44 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Surprised no one from Rolling Stones or Pink Floyd is on the list

Probably spending all their money keeping themselves alive, at least in Rolling Stones case.. aren't they like 120 or something?

  On 12/3/2014 at 12:09 AM, delet... said:

 

  On 12/2/2014 at 11:57 PM, doublename said:

Paul David Hewson deserves every penny for giving the world Eve Hewson.

 

Typical bono missing the point. Check this out, although maybe it's an (doesn't say it).

 

  Quote

 

Hewson was born in Dublin, the second daughter of activist Ali Hewson (née Alison Stewart) and U2 lead singer Bono (Paul David Hewson). She was named after being born at 7am on 7 July, as "eve" is the middle of the word "seven".

 

 

But my dear boy, if she was born at 7am when is that? Why it's the morning, early in the daylight hours. When is it not? the evening. Therefore it's kind of counter intuitive when you think it through, so if you were going for a time of day name, instead of some convoluted and obscure raping of the innards of the number seven, why not call the wee lass Dawn.

 

yeah but dawn probably doesn't happen in dublin until about 11am