MORE than 200,000 revellers are set to descend on Worthy Farm in Somerset for this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
With a chart-topping lineup featuring pop, rock and R&B with Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA, along with country legend Shania Twain, there is something for fans of all music genres.
While Glasto is the most hotly anticipated festival in the world, the budget is capped at around £500,000 for even the biggest name acts - a small change for some of the multi-millionaire headliners.
But the kudos of playing the world’s best festival trumps the cash incentive for most performers who have millions in the bank already.
So who among this year’s line-up takes the crown as the wealthiest act? We reveal the ultimate 2024 Glastonbury rich list.
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Coldplay - £350m
They are one of the biggest bands in the world having sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, with every one of their nine studio albums reaching number one in the UK’s Official Album Chart.
Hits including Yellow and Viva la Vida have helped them scoop nine Grammy awards and they have secured the most Brit awards of any band in the world.
Coldplay's shows have become a show-stopping spectacle with fans clamouring for tickets to sell-out tours worldwide.
They first played Glastonbury in 1999, and this summer’s gig will see them become the first band to headline the Pyramid Stage five times.
It is no wonder that the band are worth an estimated £350m collectively, with frontman Chris Martin believed to be worth a cool £160m.
Shania Twain - £320m
The Queen of Country pop steps into the Glasto Sunday Legends slot straight from her third Las Vegas residency.
Over the years her hits like That Don’t Impress Me Much and Man I Feel Like a Woman have helped propel country music into the mainstream - and earned Shania a huge estimated £320m fortune.
The Canadian singer-songwriter has sold more than 100 million records, winning five Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, eight Billboard Music Awards and 27 BMI Songwriter awards. She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
With country music having its very own moment in 2024, she is sure to be a hit with festivalgoers.
She certainly knows how to please a crowd and has promised to make her Glasto set one to remember, telling the BBC: "I'm doing the hits - the songs that everybody knows and the versions that everybody knows. It’s just going to be a big sing-along party."
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Dua Lipa - £90m
In less than 10 years Dua has gone from working as a waitress in London’s Soho to one of the hottest stars on the planet, clocking up three Grammys and seven Brit awards.
And her years of graft have paid off as this year The Sunday Times rich list estimated her fortune at a cool £90m.
The daughter of Kosovan immigrants, Dua, now 28, started off posting videos of herself singing cover versions on YouTube from her bedroom in West Hampstead, London.
Her talent was soon spotted and she signed a record deal, with hits like One Kiss and Training Season shooting her to the top of the charts.
In 2023 she made a cameo role in the Barbie movie, as Mermaid Barbie, as well as topping the charts with the film’s soundtrack Dance the Night.
She first appeared at Glastonbury back in 2017 on the John Peel Stage but this year will be headlining the iconic Pyramid stage, cementing her global superstar status.
Avril Lavigne - £47m
The Canadian rock star will take to the Other Stage on Sunday for her very first Glastonbury performance.
She signed her first record deal at the age of just 16 and her debut album Let Go is still the best-selling album of the 21st century by a Canadian artist.
Now aged 39, she has had a career spanning more than two decades with hits such as Complicated and Sk8ter Boi helping her to sell more than 30m albums worldwide.
She has also had a successful acting career and launched her own clothing line Abbey Dawn and a perfume range, which have all helped to boost her fortune.
Cyndi Lauper - £35m
Girls Just Want to Have Fun became Cyndi’s most memorable hit and its video was lauded by MTV and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest of all time.
Her music has stood the test of time with that video hitting the YouTube billion views club in 2022.
With a career spanning 50 years, 71-year-old Cyndi has sold more than 50 million records with hits like True Colors and Time After Time propelling her to the top of the charts, and her music is still being used on films and TV shows today.
She has Grammys, Emmys and Tony Awards to her name, and is a tireless activist for the LGBTQ+ community and human rights.
Cyndi’s music has inspired generations of music stars including the likes of Katy Perry & Lady Gaga and, as well as performing her own set on the Pyramid Stage, there are rumours this year’s headliner Dua Lipa plans to invite the 80s pop icon to perform alongside her too.
Still, the girl who wants to have fun, she has also announced a series of comeback gigs in the UK.
Seventeen - £20m
The biggest act on Glasto’s Pyramid Stage this year, in terms of record sales, isn’t Coldplay or Shania Twain. It is Seventeen - a 13-member strong K-pop boyband which sold more than 10million albums last year.
The only act to sell more was Taylor Swift and now they are making history as the first K-Pop act to grace the Glasto stage.
Unlike most Korean pop bands, Seventeen write and produce their material. And while K-Pop hasn’t made big in-roads into the UK music scene, the band are hoping to change that with their Glastonbury set.
Band leader S Coups told the BBC: “There’s a great sense of responsibility. We’ll keep coming back to the feeling and do our best to prepare, see that we can blow everybody away… Not just our fans, but every other member of the audience.”
And if they do that they could boost their earnings which are currently estimated at around £20m.
Camila Cabello - £14m
The Cuban-American singer-songwriter rose to fame as part of the girl group Fifth Harmony.
She launched her solo career in 2016 with hits such as Havana and Crying in the Club propelling her to global superstardom.
Brand deals with the likes of L’Oreal, Skechers and Guess have boosted her earning power, as well as a stint as a coach on the US version of The Voice.
Camila, 27, will take to the Other Stage on Saturday evening.
SZA - £4m
The American R&B star might be an unknown quantity to many Glasto fans, but she has worked with some of the biggest names in the business from Justin Timberlake to Doja Cat, and has even written songs for Beyonce and Rihanna.
She beat stars like Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Miley Cyrus to the Brit Award for Best International Artist this year.
Real name Solana Imani Rowe, 34, she has been in the business since 2011 and has also won four Grammy awards.
She was nominated for an Oscar alongside Kendrick Lamar for their song All the Stars which they wrote for the hit movie Black Panther.
Her 2022 album SOS spent its first seven weeks on top of the US album charts - the first R&B album to do so since Whitney Houston in 1987 - and became the longest-running number-one female album of the decade. Her single Kill Bill spent almost six months in the UK top 40.
The hit album sparked a US and European arena tour with 54 shows across America and Europe, helping to build her £4m fortune.
Mike Skinner - £2.5m
The Streets frontman founded the rap project when he was just a teenager and is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists in the UK rap scene.
A string of hit singles followed including Fit But You Know It, A Grand Don’t Come for Free and Has It Come to This?
He first performed at Glastonbury in 2007 and this year’s performance on the Other Stage will be his fifth appearance at the festival.
Peggy Gou - £1.5m
The South Korean DJ is living the dream, flying around to the world’s coolest party destinations performing to thousands of ravers and festival goers every week.
She is one of the hottest DJs on the planet right now, with hits Nanana and Starry Night bringing dance music into the mainstream.
Peggy, 32, has more than 4.2m followers on Instagram and 12.2m monthly listeners on Spotify, so it is bound to be packed at The Park stage for her Glastonbury set.
Her worth is estimated at £1.5m but industry experts predict this is just the tip of the iceberg of her future earnings with her record label, fashion line and mini-festival, Pleasure Gardens, which sells out every year.
