An annual rich list says Paul McCartney is Britain's first billionaire musician

Paul McCartney is a billionaire Beatle. The annual Sunday Times Rich List says McCartney is the first British musician to be worth 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion). The list released Friday calculates that the wealth of the 81-year-old musician and his wife Nancy Shevell has grown by 50 million pounds since last year. That's due to McCartney’s 2023 Got Back tour, the rising value of his back catalogue and Beyonce’s cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird” on her “Cowboy Carter” album. McCartney ranks 165th overall on the newspaper’s list. Top spot goes to Hinduja Group owner Gopi Hinduja and his family, worth an estimated 37 billion pounds. King Charles III ranks 258th with an estimated weath of 610 million pounds.