Simon Cowell joins Rich List top ten with £200m fortune

X-Factor judge Simon Cowell has amassed a personal fortune of £200m to place him at number six in the annual Music Millionaires Top 50, published in The Sunday Times Rich List 2011 this weekend.

The Music Millionaires Top 50 is headed by Clive Calder, with a £1,300m fortune made from the sale of Zomba Records in 2002.

New entries on the list include AC/DC's lead singer Brian Johnson who is worth an estimated £50m and Riverdance owners Moya Doherty and John McColgan worth £70m.

Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins tops the young music millionaires list with £13m - up £2m on 2010.

Cheryl Cole, Leona Lewis and Katie Melua, who all have £12m fortunes, came second on the under 30 rich list.

The top new entry in the young music millionaires chart is Adele at joint ninth with Lily Allen, Duffy and Amy Winehouse with a £6m fortune each.

Two more new entries are singer songwriter Taio Cruz and Florence Welch who have both found chart success in the U.S, each worth £5m.

U2 with a combined fortune of £455m, up by £26m from last year, head the list of Irish music millionaires who appear among Ireland's Richest 250 in The Sunday Times Rich List 2011.

The 23rd annual Sunday Times Rich List - the definitive guide to wealth in Britain and Ireland - is published as an extra 104-page magazine, free with the paper on Sunday.