RIHANNA—EST. $260 MILLION

Rihanna was born on February 20, 1988 in San Michael, Barbados. Rihanna chose to comfort her heart with music because of her poor family environment. With the help of American record producer Evan Rogers, she came to the United States to start her music career. All anyone who doubts the ubiquity of Rihanna as a musical artist needs to do is open the radio for a brief moment. Whoever does that is practically guaranteed to hear a Rihanna song at some point in that short span of time. Which is why Rihanna is so popular, and conversely, so rich.

She was ranked by Business Insider as the third-highest paid female musical performer in the world. And from 2018 to 2019 alone—merely a year!—she increased her net worth from $260 million to $600 million by partnering up with LVMH in the creation of her own makeup brand. If that doesn’t say she’s a master at investment planning then we don’t know what will.