£143,836 a day

Adele

ADELE’S third album, 25, earned £16.5 m last year according to UK accounts, selling 20 million copies worldwide. Forbes magazine estimates the 29-year-old earned £52.5 m in total.

HOW SHE SPENDS IT: Adele owns two mews houses in Kensington, knocked together into a family home, and two more in Hove, East Sussex. There’s also a house in LA. These are shared with her 43-year-old husband Simon Konecki, a multi-millionaire charity executive, and their son Angelo, four.