Every year The Sunday Times puts together its Rich List – a carefully calculated (read: increasingly guesstimated) account of who’s made what in the last year and, when placed alongside running totals and expenses, who’s got more money than who.
It’s an annual pry into the kind of numbers that the rich and famous would like to keep secret and for music fans it’s increasingly interesting as a metric as to who’s big-mouthed power play, festival fronting and chart dominance is actually paying off for real.
