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Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov is top of this year's Sunday Times Rich List.

The 59-year-old, who has a near 30% stake in Arsenal Football Club, is worth £13.3 billion, according to the list, which is published today.

2013 rank (2012 rank), name, source of wealth, 2013 wealth (2012 wealth):

• 1. (2) Alisher Usmanov, mining and investment, £13,300m
• 2. (5) Len Blavatnik, investment, music and media, £11,000m
• 3. (4) Sri and Gopi Hinduja, industry and finance, £10,600m
• 4. (1) Lakshmi Mittal and family, steel, #10,000m
• 5. (3) Roman Abramovich, oil and industry, #9,300m

His business empire, which started with the making of plastic bags, ranges from Metalloinvest, Russia's biggest iron ore producer, to a stake in mail.ru, the country's largest internet company, and a big holding in MegaFon, a mobile phone operator which listed on the London and Moscow stock markets.

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Adele has conquered the charts again by coming top of the Rich List of young musicians, while the five members of boy band One Direction are each worth £5 million.

Sir Paul McCartney was named the richest musician overall for the 24th year running, with the former Beatle's fortune rated at £680 million.

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The five members of One Direction have racked up a £5 million fortune each in the last year, according to the Sunday Times Young Music Rich List.

The boy band, who were put together on the X Factor, have achieved international success and stormed the United States in 2012 with their debut album Up All Night.

Read: Sir Paul McCartney tops Sunday Times Rich List of music millionaires

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Adele tops the Sunday Times Young Music Rich List with a fortune of £30 million.

According to researchers, the singer made £10 million in the last year despite taking much of it off to recover from a throat operation and have a baby.

Cheryl Cole is second in the list of music millionaires aged 30 and under with a fortune estimated at £14 million, while Leona Lewis and Katie Melua are just behind with £12 million.

New entries to the list include Emeli Sande and Ed Sheeran who are each worth £5 million.

Read: Sir Paul McCartney tops Sunday Times Rich List

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The top 10 richest music millionaires in Britain and Ireland, according to the Sunday Times Rich List are:

• 1 - Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell - £680 million
• 2 - Andrew Lloyd Webber - £620 million
• 3 - U2 -£520 million
• 4 - Sir Elton John - £240 million
• 5 - David and Victoria Beckham - £200 million
• 6 - Mick Jagger - £200 million

• 7 - Michael Flatley - £191 million
• 8 - Keith Richards - £185 million
• 9 - Olivia and Dhani Harrison - £180 million
• 10 - Sting - £180 million

The full list will be published on Sunday April 21.

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1 - Clive Calder - £1.3bn

2 - Lord Lloyd-Webber - £680m

3 - Sir Cameron Mackintosh - £675m

4 - Sir Paul McCartney - £495m

5 - Simon Fuller - £375m

6 - Simon Cowell - £200m

7 - Sir Elton John - £195m

8 - Sir Mick Jagger - £190m

9 - Sting - £180m

10 - Keith Richards - £175m

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• There are 77 billionaires in the 2012 Rich List, two more than the previous record of 75 in 2008.
• Individuals need at least £72 million to make the list, £2 million more than last year.

• The richest woman is Staffordshire-born former Miss UK Kirsty Bertarelli, who shares a £7.4 billion fortune with her husband Ernesto.
• Andrey Andreev, the London-based Russian businessman who founded the online dating site Badoo, is a new entrant with a worth of £500 million.

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1 - Lakshmi Mittal and family - £12.7bn.

2 - Alisher Usmanov - £12.3bn.

3 - Roman Abramovich - £9.5bn.

4 - Sri and Gopi Hinduja - £8.6bn.

5 - Leonard Blavatnik - £7.58bn.

6 - Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli - £7.4bn.

7 - The Duke of Westminster - £7.35bn.

8 - David and Simon Reuben - £7.08bn.

9 - John Fredriksen and family - £6.6bn.

10 - Galen and George Weston and family - £5.9bn.

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