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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Rob Davies

Money, Money, Money: the singers lifting economies with their vocals

Beyoncé performs onstage during the Renaissance world tour at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on 29 May.
Beyoncé during the London leg of her Renaissance world tour on 29 May. Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood

Money has proved to be an enduring inspiration for some of the bestselling artists of all time: from Pink Floyd pondering the “root of all evil” to the Wu-Tang Clan rapping how “cash rules everything around me”.

Some superstars are bigger, though, so big they are not content with merely singing about money, or even making lots of it, but prefer to move entire economies with their vocal cords.

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