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Taylor Swift has joined Elon Musk as rating among the many world’s wealthiest folks, in line with a brand new wealthy listing.
The American pop star entered the Forbes World’s Billionaires List for the primary time with $1.1bn (£877m), together with Sam Altman, creator of the AI chatbot ChatGPT on $1bn (£800m).
LVMH French luxurious items titan Bernard Arnault and his household topped the chart with an estimated $233bn (£185bn).
Forbes mentioned there have been a document 2,781 billionaires for 2024.
The determine is 141 greater than final 12 months and 26 greater than the earlier document set in 2021. Forbes added the elite have been richer than ever – with a collective wealth of $14.2tn (£11.3tn).
Singer-songwriter Swift entered the wealthy listing after reaching megastar standing. She stole the present at this 12 months’s Grammy Awards, turning into the primary performer to win the prize for album of the 12 months 4 instances.
Her album 1989 (Taylor’s Model) was additionally the best-selling vinyl LP of final 12 months.
Swift’s success isn’t just confined to the world of music. Her mere presence at American soccer video games to look at her boyfriend Travis Kelce has been credited with elevating NFL viewing figures.
In relation to the highest 10 richest folks on the planet, eight listed have been from the US – six of whom had made their cash in know-how industries.
After Frenchman Mr Arnault and his household, Mr Musk, the proprietor of Tesla and X, previously Twitter, is listed second, with an estimated internet value of $195bn (£155bn).
He’s adopted in third by Amazon proprietor Jeff Bezos.
Mr Musk’s riches are up 8% from final 12 months however down on his internet value in November 2021, when he grew to become the primary individual ever to be value $300bn (£239bn).
Additionally becoming a member of Forbes’s listing is basketball legend Magic Johnson with wealth of $1.2bn (£950m) and TV producer Dick Wolf, behind the US Legislation and Order and Chicago PD sequence, additionally on $1.2bn.
Chase Peterson-Withorn, senior editor on wealth for Forbes, mentioned it had been an “wonderful” 12 months for the world’s richest folks.
“A record-breaking 14 centi-billionaires have 12-figure fortunes. Even throughout instances of economic uncertainty for a lot of, the super-rich proceed to thrive,” he added.
Forbes mentioned the category of billionaires for 2024 have been 255% richer than a decade in the past, now value $2tn (£1.59tn) in all, which means simply 0.5% of the world’s 2,781 billionaires maintain 14% of all billionaire wealth.
Geographically, the US nonetheless has extra billionaires than some other nation, with a document 813 on the listing. China stays second, adopted by India.
Within the UK, hedge fund supervisor Michael Platt is the richest individual, adopted by part-owner of Manchester United Sir Jim Ratcliffe and inventor Sir James Dyson.
Forbes mentioned 189 folks had fallen off the listing together with 129 from mainland China, the place weak client spending and a collapse in the true property market wiped billions off portfolios.
One other 32 billionaires died, together with Egyptian tycoon Mohamed Al-Fayed, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera and Margaritaville singer Jimmy Buffett.
