Adele rakes in £15m for year she didn’t work

SHE may be enjoying a five-year break from music to spend time with her young son.

But it seems the time out is having no effect on Adele’s finances, as she retained her position as Britain’s richest young star.

In fact the singer, pictured, increased her wealth from £132million to £147million in the past year despite not releasing any new music.

She ended a world tour at Wembley Stadium last summer, earning £42million for the sell-out gigs. And despite releasing her last album, 25, in 2015, she is still raking in millions in record sales.

The 30-year-old singer has one son, Angelo, six, with her charity boss husband Simon Konecki, 44. She has taken time off work to spend time with her family, but there are now rumours of a £22million year-long Las Vegas residency.

And the family have been making use of their fortune, buying a £6.5million mansion in Beverly Hills, boasting six bathrooms and a swimming pool.

She has also amassed an impressive property portfolio in Britain, including two homes in Kensington, West London, worth £11million, and a £2.5million seaside pad in Hove, East Sussex.

Second in Heat magazine’s annual guide to Britain’s wealthiest 30 people aged 30 and under is Ed Sheeran, whose fortune increased by a £42million.

The songwriter, 27, is estimated to be worth £94million, up from £52million, thanks to bumper sales of his third album Divide, with more than six million copies sold. His two-year world tour brought in ticket sales of £225million.

Sheeran knocked Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe into third place.