Music stars Rihanna, Jay-Z and Kanye West have made their official debut on the 2022 Forbes annual billionaires list.
Rihanna, who has officially certified as a billionaire in August 2021 thanks to her beauty and lingerie empire, which debuted at no 1729 on the 2022 Forbes World Billionaires List. Her debut on this list with a net worth of $1.7bn makes her not just the world’s richest musician but also the richest person in her home country Barbados.
Kanye ‘Ye’ West, on the other hand, clinched the 1513 spot with a net worth of 2$billion, which Forbes linked to his lucrative Yeezy partnership with Adidas and deal with Gap.
Jay-Z also made his debut on the 2022 list at number 2,076 with a net worth of $1.4bn.
Standing strong at the top of the list is Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, with an estimated worth of $219billion (£167bn). In second place is Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, worth almost $50bn (£38bn) less than Musk with $171bn (£130bn).
The 2022 billionaire list included 2,668 billionaires with a collective worth of $12.7tn, a notable change from the 2775 billionaires listed last year who were collectively worth $13.1trillion.