Taylor Swift enters the list of the richest in the world led by Bernard Arnault

Taylor Swift has been one of the outstanding figures of 2023 and will continue to be so in 2014 thanks to her world tour The Eras Tour, an event that has already been proven to contribute to boosting the economy of the places where it stops. It also undoubtedly helps to improve the accounts of the American singer, who is included in the list of the richest people in the world, prepared by the magazine Forbes. It does so, yes, in position 2545, thanks to its 1.1 billion dollars, very far from the first positions, in which there are no major changes with respect to the previous year's edition.

At the head of the planet's millionaires are Bernard Arnault and his family with a net worth, according to the publication, of 233 billion dollars. The president and CEO of the LVMH group (Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy) is followed in the classification by Elon Musk, who for a few months took the throne from him in another of the rankings of rich, the one prepared by the Bloomberg agency. To the founder of Tesla, a company that has just suffered a setback on the stock market due to the collapse in sales in the first quarter, the magazine attributes a fortune of 195,000 million dollars. A figure very close to that of the third in the classification, Jeff Bezos, since the founder of Amazon has 194,000 million.

The novelty in the top positions this year is Mark Zuckerberg, who climbs from 16th place to 4th, thanks to the good performance last year of Meta, the company he leads, which has raised his fortune to 177,000 million dollars. The rise of the founder of Facebook displaces one position to Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, which has 133 billion dollars. He is followed in sixth place by investor Warren Buffett, with 133 billion dollars, while Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft with 128 billion, is in seventh. A position held last year by businessman Michael Bloomberg, who this year disappears from the top ten by falling to 12th position.

Up two steps, to eight, Steve Ballmer, former executive director of Microsoft, with his 121,000 million, and Mukesh Ambani, whose fortune, the largest in India, is 116,000 million, remains the same as in the last edition. The top ten is closed by Larry Page, co-founder of Google, with 114 billion.

The first Spaniard on the list is, once again, Amancio Ortega, thanks to his 103 billion dollars, which keeps him in 13th place. In this edition, the founder of Inditex is also the first Ibero-American in the classification since Carlos Slim, with a fortune of 102,000 million, drops from 8th position to 14th.

The publication highlights that it has been “an exceptional year for the mega-rich.” There are 2,781 billionaires from around the world on the list, which is 141 more than in 2023 and 26 more than in 2021, when the previous record was set. Their fortunes total 14.2 trillion dollars, 2 trillion more than last year. Although there are also abysmal differences among the rich. The 14 richest people in the world, those whose fortunes exceed $100 billion, total $2 trillion. This translates, according to the publication's calculations, in that only 0.5% of billionaires own 14% of the wealth in the ranking.

Figures that are not comparable to those of Taylor Swift, who managed to become a multimillionaire, according to the magazine's criteria, in October 2023, thanks to the profits from her tour and her musical catalog, valued at 500 million dollars. Swift began re-recording her first six albums in 2021 to regain ownership rights to her. The singer is the first figure in the world of music to appear in the classification based strictly on what she earns thanks to her concerts and her songs, and not because of the money generated in other types of contracts, as is the case, for example. , by Rihanna who owns $1.4 billion, part of it due to Fenty Beauty, the company she has with LVMH.

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