DIGITAL DAY: $1.4 billion fortune Paul McCartney has become the third billionaire musician in the world, according to Forbes. McCartney mainly profits from the rights to the songs, not just his own. His company MPL Communications, founded in 1969 (before the Beatles broke up), buys the rights to the creativity of others. His acquisitions include a catalog of songs, music for Broadway musicals and rights to Christmas carols. It's starting to look like Christmas, A Christmas Carol and baby, it's cold outside. MPL has rights to thousands of songs. Annual revenues, according to Forbes, are tens of millions of dollars. Well, the rights to the old Beatles songs he sued Sony. In second place is a good singer without a single hit Taylor Swift. She has about and #036,2 billion and almost all of them earned music. In addition to #036,100 million on real estate. The king of earnings is Jay-Z, who has $2.8 billion. In fact, no more than a quarter of creativity. The operator turned out to be a merchant, a profitable investor in various fields. In the same real estate, clothing brands and more. He owns the streaming service Tidal, the brand of champagne Armand de Brignac, co-owner of Uber, cognac DUsé (together with Bacardi), etc., "Buy you a diamond ring, my friend. If it makes you feel okay, I'll get you something if it makes you feel okay "cause I don't care too much about money" money can't buy me love.