The 20 richest musicians of all time – You’ll never guess the billionaires (+Pics)

15. Elton John: $300 million
Like Sting (#18), the man born Reginald Dwight has had his own problemwith sketchy accountants—Elton’s losses wereestimated at a staggering £20 million, however. Not quite couch change, but also not nearly enough to break the bank for themost successful male solo artist of all time; a guy whose ‘70s albums alone have sold upwards of 22 million copies to date, and whose rebooted version of “Candle in the Wind” has itself sold 33 million copies. When you’re known to drop £9.6m on property and £293,000 on flowers (flowers!) in less than two years, it helps to have a pile of money as large as your personality.