Singer Rihanna enters the billionaire club, according to the Forbes ranking. She thus becomes one of the richest musicians in the world.
This Wednesday, August 4, 2021, Forbes magazine unveiled the ranking of the world’s largest fortunes. 1.7 billion dollars, or 1.43 billion euros, is the wealth enjoyed by singer Rihanna. She therefore enters the very private and selective club of billionaires. Remember, in 2003, Rihanna made a sensational entry into the world of music. The young woman has been making hit songs for years. “Umbrella”, “Love on the brain”, “Needed me”… Rihanna is a real tube machine, but that’s not all. Now 33, she is one of the most enterprising women of her generation. And this is mainly how his fortune has grown over the years.
How Rihanna built her empire?
Rihanna, it’s not just melodies sung loudly with friends in the evening or listened to thoroughly in the car. The musician accompanies us even in our daily gestures and even in our privacy. In 2017, she launched her makeup brand, Fenty Beauty. According to Forbes, 1.4 billion of his fortune comes from this brand created in partnership with the French luxury giant LVMH.
The success is therefore dazzling for Rihanna on the make up side and all this is without counting Savage X Fenty, a lingerie brand that she also launched and which, today, contributes in net worth to 270 million. Of course, we are still waiting for Rihanna’s new album – she had promised us in 2016 – but the singer from the island of Barbados is in constant activity.
Rihanna: social networks, inclusion and good vibes … a role model
Rihanna’s success, aside from her impressive fortune, also comes from an inclusive spirit which, until now, was still on hold in the cosmetics world. Do you have dark skin and always struggled to find your shade in mainstream makeup brands? Fenty has established itself as a benchmark for all skin types, with a range of dozens of different shades. As for Savage X Fenty, lingerie collections celebrate all bodies. One only has to browse the brand’s catalog to see fat models posed, without photo editing, in ultra sexy underwear that previously the industry considered not to be suitable for all bodies.
Rihanna is also a huge influence online with over 100 million followers on Twitter and Instagram. Hits, hit tours, make-up and lingerie brands recognized around the world… She is now the second wealthiest woman in showbusiness just behind host Oprah Winfrey. The young woman is even ahead of a music and fashion man, Kanye West, whose fortune amounts to $ 1.3 billion. One more proof that Rihanna is a role model to watch very closely.