Rihanna, Jay-Z and Kanye West first raised the list of Forbes billionaires

Rihanna, Kanye West and Jay-Z are on the Forbes list of billionaires, and their huge fortunes take pride of place among the world’s super-rich.

The SOS hitmaker, who in August 2021 was officially certified a billionaire thanks to his vast empire of beauty and lingerie, took 1729th place in the annual list, making it the richest music in the world.

Meanwhile, Kanye, who allegedly challenged his $ 2 billion account to Forbes, claiming it was actually worth $ 7 billion, took 1,513th place thanks to his lucrative partnership Yeezy with Adidas and the deal with Gap.

It is believed that Rihanna was named the first billionaire of Barbados due to her huge fortune, which made her a member of the coveted Forbes Club.

In the coming weeks, the star should welcome her first child from the beautiful A $ AP Rocky.

It was previously claimed that the bulk of her fortune ($ 1.4 billion / £ 1 billion) comes from her 50 per cent stake in her cosmetics line Fenty Beauty – a joint venture with French luxury conglomerate LVMH – and the total value is 2.8 billion dollars (2 billion pounds).

Her share of $ 270 million (£ 190 million) in the hugely successful Savage X Fenty lingerie line and her wealth from her 16-year recording career make up the tycoon’s massive wealth.

Rihanna founded the famous beauty brand Fenty Beauty back in 2017 with the desire to “make women everywhere (feel included)”.

He became a leader in providing diversity in the makeup industry when he first released 40 shades for his foundation line

Singer You Da One first published her makeup line at Sephora, garnering $ 100 million in sales in the first few weeks.

By the end of its first full calendar year in 2018, LVMH said the brand had earned $ 550 million (£ 394 million) in annual revenue, surpassing cosmetic brands of celebrities such as Kylie Cosmetics and KKW Beauty.

The upscale brand has evolved into a billion-dollar business in less than four years, and with the launch of Fenty Skin last year, it looks like it will grow even further.

In four months, sales in its online store Fenty Skin amounted to $ 30 million, according to WWD.

Rihanna Savage X Fenty’s lingerie line, in which she has a 30 per cent stake, is also worth $ 1 billion (£ 717 million).

The brand’s second round of funding in February secured Savage X Fenty a whopping $ 115 million (£ 82.7 million) from L Catterton, a private equity firm in which fashion house LVMH has a stake, taking a percentage off the line.

At the same time, Jay-Z – long known as one of the stars of hip-hop – boasts a portfolio of $ 1.4 billion, which puts it in 2076 place on the list of billionaires.

The cost of the music icon includes the sale of his streaming service Tidal and champagne Armand de Brignac LVMH, as well as his empire Roc Nation.

Kanye reportedly challenged his Forbes estimate of $ 2 billion, claiming it was actually $ 7 billion, according to The Blast.

Kanye follows Oprah Winfrey, who is valued at $ 2.6 billion, and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian is inferior to him at $ 1.8 billion, according to ET Canada.

West has several deals, but the magazine’s criteria for determining someone’s wealth do not take into account “businesses value long-term deals that are made,” according to The Blast.

The net value is partly determined on the basis of “last year’s income only”.

The Blast claims that West’s team was told in advance about the article and is not happy with how its value has been introduced into history.

In addition to his hugely successful music career, West has signed a multi-year contract with Adidas with his hugely successful Yeezy range, in addition to the major from Gap, in which he manufactures and designs clothing for the company.

Yeezy Gap’s clothing collaboration brought in $ 1 billion in sales in its first year, and now a new range of Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga will be released later this year.

Kanye also owns a small stake in the corrective clothing brand of his ex-wife Kim Kardashian Skims, reports The Blast.

According to The Blast, West believes that the publication is trying to “control and humiliate him even at the expense of his own integrity.”

This is not the first time Kanye has expressed his displeasure with Forbes.

West allegedly sent a text message to the magazine criticizing their assessment of its capital after the publication awarded him the title of billionaire in 2020.

The article describes how the rapper provided the publication’s documents, giving them “a true digital view of Kanye, Inc.” prove a feat.

However, the article notes that West was dissatisfied with their research and findings, saying he believes his net worth is about $ 3.3 billion instead of the $ 1.26 billion they estimated.

“It’s not a billion,” West allegedly wrote. “That’s $ 3.3 billion because no one at Forbes can count.”

Heading the coveted list of Forbes billionaires is Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who earlier this week announced he had acquired a stake in Twitter and won a seat on the social media board.

The tycoon’s net worth is currently estimated at $ 219 billion.

He is joined by Jess Bezos of Amazon in second place with $ 171 billion, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in fourth place with $ 129 billion.