celeb news Forbes releases annual list of billionaires, 4 musicians make the list

[nostalgic]

1 hour ago, Nefertiti0 said:

• No. 2356: Rihanna ($1.4 billion)

Well yes!

 

Edited April 2 by nostalgic

[BrokenMachine]

[BrokenMachine]

1 hour ago, slw84 said:

Aren't they missing a huge music superstar?

I thought Beyonce crossed the B mark a few years back???

Isn't her fortune put together with Jay Z, or that thing is just for the private jet ?

[shookspeare]

the way Taylor is #2110 and 2+1+10 = 13, 

[nikevo2925]

All of them are demoRATs... So hopefully they will donate all their wealth 

[nikevo2925]

23 minutes ago, BrokenMachine said:

Isn't her fortune put together with Jay Z, or that thing is just for the private jet ?

Her Renaissance tour made 550m+ shouldnt she be above 1 billion + on her own now?

[cunit4416]

none of them have money

[Rotunda]

Forbes doesn't know what's in these peoples' pockets 

[GipJo]

Eat the rich.

[Johnny Jacobs]

I thought selener was too

[CroNich]

Imagine all the world problems that could be solved if billionaires weren't allowed to exist

[piotrert]

1 hour ago, CroNich said:

Imagine all the world problems that could be solved if billionaires weren't allowed to exist

Imagine thinking it would change anything with current governments wasting money on stupid ****. 

[modeblock]

1 hour ago, piotrert said:

Imagine thinking it would change anything with current governments wasting money on stupid ****. 

DOGE stan? 

[piotrert]

2 minutes ago, modeblock said:

DOGE stan? 

the what? don't speak american to me

[Archetype]

5 hours ago, cuteboyzay said:

Beyoncé neverrr reports her Net-Worth to any of them. She's been at a billion since like 2016-2018 I think (her father confirmed in an interview or sumn). I remember when she was worth like 500M already in 2013, lmao!

Not a single billionaire on earth reports their actual net-worth to anyone, not even their government tax agency.  This list is purely speculative mostly based on owned assets and valuation of those assets in 2025, and then lastly earnings, which is usually the smallest portion of their total estimated net-worth.  Beyonce's omission from the list means her owned assets either decreased in value to dip below 1B, or she sold assets that were not traceable to her.  Gaga is also estimated to be a billionaire, but her traceable net-worth is much lower.  There are many more billionaires on earth than counted due to this alone, endless LLC shell companies within shell companies with anonymous owners, etc.

[lonnie]

1 hour ago, Archetype said:

Not a single billionaire on earth reports their actual net-worth to anyone, not even their government tax agency.  This list is purely speculative mostly based on owned assets and valuation of those assets in 2025, and then lastly earnings, which is usually the smallest portion of their total estimated net-worth.  Beyonce's omission from the list means her owned assets either decreased in value to dip below 1B, or she sold assets that were not traceable to her.  Gaga is also estimated to be a billionaire, but her traceable net-worth is much lower.  There are many more billionaires on earth than counted due to this alone, endless LLC shell companies within shell companies with anonymous owners, etc.

This. I don't know how we're still in 2025 and people think that Forbes estimates are accurate cash holdings of these individuals. Most of the people who are wealthy (on this celebrity list) are super wealthy because of the value of their catalogues (Taylor and Bruce) or because of their businesses (Jay and Rih) and the value of those non-cash assets such as stock or ownership of particular companies. That said, I think Bey has more chances of being a billionaire than Gaga for the simple reason that her and Jay have bought houses and art in the hundreds of millions, I don't know how they break down their individual assets which is why it's probably harder for them to estimate Bey's actual wealth, but Gaga (from what I know) doesn't really have very successful businesses nor has she sold her catalogue or gotten huge swaths of income in a while so I don't know if she'd be estimated as a billionaire even if her net worth would be more traceable than it is. That said, all of these individuals (Gaga included) are super wealthy and they're probably going to get wealthier with the Trump administration seeing how it's going to favour them these coming years. All of that wealth would be put to better use were it taxed and the resources taken to help the social welfare of a country where everything seems to be falling apart with terrible infrastructure, rising homelessness, high cost of living, education in the pits, etc etc.

[Rino]

the way there are babies out there dying due to hunger and these people have this amount of money all to themselves 

[SupremeGoddess]

4 hours ago, CroNich said:

Imagine all the world problems that could be solved if billionaires weren't allowed to exist

how none of these people just decide to help out with wiping out world hunger, vaccine distribution in countries with less acess, build out hospitals throughout the world, help out with national health services, and place themselves in the history books as saviors is so beyond me 

 

what do you even do with so much money why are they hording it so much  they already have private jets, private islands, they have rockets or ****, big companies

 

like they don't need more money to continue their exasperated luxurious lifestyle 

[Radical Pessimism]

8 hours ago, LovingDays said:

I feel like there is something a little icky about celebrating billionaires like this 

Like what is this picture...

disgusting!

[Maroonx]

Time to increate taxes on these people x

[JoeAg]

BRUCE?? 

 

I mean let's be real he's one of the most famous and celebrated rockstars ever, but… just whoa. I hope spending it "on superfluous things" doesn't preclude him from also donating a lot of it. I mean listen to his lyrics, look at what he's always so passionately stood for! he's passionate about humanitarianism and he's always been disillusioned about how f*cked up America truly is. I hope he can put that money where his mouth is too…

[MattieB]

9 hours ago, LovingDays said:

I feel like there is something a little icky about celebrating billionaires like this 

Like what is this picture...

The world's most useless idiots

[MattieB]

20 minutes ago, Maroonx said:

Time to increate taxes on these people x

A guillotine would be preffered tbh

[slw84]

9 hours ago, dumbsparce said:

The list is about musicians 

You know what…

8 hours ago, BrokenMachine said:

Isn't her fortune put together with Jay Z, or that thing is just for the private jet ?

I thought that at first and then checked to see if they included her.

[Lose My Breath]

2 hours ago, SupremeGoddess said:

how none of these people just decide to help out with wiping out world hunger, vaccine distribution in countries with less acess, build out hospitals throughout the world, help out with national health services, and place themselves in the history books as saviors is so beyond me 

 

what do you even do with so much money why are they hording it so much  they already have private jets, private islands, they have rockets or ****, big companies

 

like they don't need more money to continue their exasperated luxurious lifestyle 

Not defending anyone, but Jay Z, Rihanna, and Taylor may be valued at over 1 billion dollars, but it's HIGHLY unlikely that is what they have in cash, that's the value of their businesses, music, investments, and so on.  Rihanna isn't going to sell her business in parts and pieces to send all of her fortune abroad like that, and I'm sure she donates large amounts of money regularly.