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Sir Paul McCartney is no stranger to conquering the charts and he’s done it again - heading the Sunday Times Rich List of music millionaires.

The Beatles star shares £730 million with his wife Nancy Shevell, according to researchers who put the list together.

Some of his fortune comes from Nancy - the heiress to a transport firm - who has a £150 million stake in her family’s US trucking business.

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber was second in the wealth chart with £650 million, followed by Irish rockers U2 with £431 million.

Sir Paul’s former bandmate Ringo Starr has moved up a place to number eight with a fortune of £180m. He shares the spot with Sting.

The fortunes of the richest performers and composers are revealed in the 27th annual Sunday Times Rich List.

Still touring at the age of 72, Sir Paul remains the wealthiest entertainer in Britain and Ireland.

He has topped the list of wealthy musicians every time it has been put together since 1989 when his fortune was estimated at £80 million.

The list will be published this weekend, on April 26, in a special 128-page issue of The Sunday Times Magazine.

Who else made it?

Newcomer to the top 40 music millionaires chart is DJ Calvin Harris, who is worth £70m. The 31-year-old is reported to earn up to $1m a night as the world’s highest-paid DJ, appearing in clubs and at festivals from Las Vegas to Ibiza.

Last year, Calvin became the first UK solo artist to clock up more than a billion Spotify streams, worth £4m, and his track Summer was the number one iTunes download in 40 territories.

The Young Ones:

Singer and songwriter Adele, 26, heads the list of young musicians with a £50m fortune, up £5m on last year.

Each member of One Direction has seen their personal wealth grow by £11m in the past 12 months, giving the four current members of the band – Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson – a combined fortune of £100 milllion. Zayn Malik, who left One Direction last month, is also worth £25m.

The only newcomer to the Young Musicians Rich List is 22-year-old singer Sam Smith.

The top 10 richest music millionaires in Britain and Ireland according to the Sunday Times Rich List:

1. Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell - £730m

2. Lord Lloyd-Webber - £650m

3. U2 - £431m

4. Sir Elton John - £270m

5. Sir Mick Jagger - £225m

6. Keith Richards - £210m

7. Michael Flatley - £195m

8 = Ringo Starr - 180m

8= Sting - £180m

10 Roger Waters - £160m