British musician and one of the frontmen of The Beatles, Sir Paul McCartney, has officially joined the ranks of dollar billionaires. According to an estimate by Forbes magazine, the 84-year-old artist's fortune has reached 1.4 billion dollars.
McCartney now ranks third in the global list of the richest musicians. He is behind only the rapper Jay-Z, whose fortune is estimated at 2.8 billion dollars, and the singer Taylor Swift, at around 2 billion dollars.
According to Forbes, the musician's main sources of income are song copyrights, world concert tours, investments in intellectual property, as well as an art collection and real estate.
One of McCartney's key assets remains MPL Communications, the publishing company he founded in 1969. It manages the rights to thousands of musical works, including those created by other writers. Experts estimate the company's value at no less than 250 million dollars.
Large-scale tours over recent decades have also brought the musician considerable income.
McCartney previously admitted in an interview that creativity and commercial success had always coexisted in harmony for him – music remains a favourite game for him rather than a gruelling routine.
