Number 30: Paolo Nutini

 

Claim to fame: Gravel-voiced popstar
Worth: £4,470,000
Age: 25
Last year: Number 22

Scottish singer Paolo Nutini made a bucket-load of cash with his first two albums. We wonder how many pairs of New Shoes he's bought with his small fortune...

Number 29: Carey Muligan

 

Claim to fame: Actress and Mrs Marcus Mumford
Worth: £4,666,000
Age: 27
Last year: New entry

With films like Shame and Drive under her belt plus a husband in platinum-selling band Mumford and Sons, Carey Mulligan's doing all right for herself.

Number 28: Sarah Harding

 

Claim to fame: One fifth of Girls Aloud
Worth: £5,330,000
Age: 30
Last year: Number 26

With the Girls Aloud reunion happening as we speak, Sarah Harding could be coming into A LOT more cash soon.

Number 27: Nicola Roberts

 

Claim to fame: One fifth of Girls Aloud
Worth: £5366,000
Age: 27
Last year: Non-mover, Number 27

Although most of her millions come from her time in Girls Aloud, Nicola Roberts also does all right with her Dainty Doll cosmetics line.

Number 26: Kimberley Walsh

 

Claim to fame: One fifth of Girls Aloud
Worth: £5,4000,000
Age: 30
Last year: Number 24

Thanks to her appearances in Shrek The Musical and this year's Strictly Come Dancing, plus all her Girls Aloud dollar, Kimberley Walsh is laughing all the way to the bank.

Number 25: Nadine Coyle

 

Claim to fame: One fifth of Girls Aloud
Worth: £5,666,000
Age: 27
Last year: Non-mover, Number 25

Selling the sales rights of her solo album to Tesco for a lump sump is the reason Nadine Coyle is the richest of the Girls Aloud gals - bar Cheryl Cole of course.

Number 24: Aaron Taylor-Johnson

 

Claim to fame: HOT actor
Worth: £5,933,000
Age: 22
Last year: New entry

Currently starring in Anna Karenina with fellow rich-lister Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is young, hot and rich. Hence we love him.

Number 23: James Morrison

 

Claim to fame: Gravel-voiced singer
Worth: £6,000,000
Age: 28
Last year: Number 20

Broken Strings star James Morrison is loaded because he's released three platinum-selling albums, plus he writes for other artists, including Demi Lovato.

Number 22: Gemma Arterton

 

Claim to fame: Actress
Worth: £6,033,000
Age: 26
Last year: Number 23

Gemma Arterton's career wasn't up to much after Clash Of The Titans and Prince Of Persia but she's back soon with Byzantium and Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters.

Number 21: Lily Allen

 

Claim to fame: Potty-mouthed singer
Worth: £6,100,000
Age: 27
Last year: Non-mover, Number 21

Lily Allen may have retired to the country to bring up her little bundle of joy Ethel, but you can't keep a rich pop star down long and she's back, working on new material as we speak.

Number 20: Duffy

 

Claim to fame: Singer
Worth: £6,166,000
Age: 28
Last year: Number 19

Duffy's first album went down a treat. Her second one did not. But she's still richer than a triple chocolate brownie drenched in Brandy butter and gravy.

Number 19: Natasha Bedingfield

 

Claim to fame: Singer and sister to Daniel Bedingfield
Worth: £6,740,00
Age: 30
Last year: Number 18

She may not be up to much around these parts, but Natasha Bedingfield has proven that 'breaking America' is the way forward; bank balance-wise.

Number 18: Sienna Miller

 

Claim to fame: Actress and general A-lister
Worth: £7,700,000
Age: 30
Last year: Number 17

What was the last film you can remember Sienna Miller starring in? It's hard right? Despite the lack of blockbusters under her oh so fashionable belt, Sienna's loaded from doing a bunch of low-to-mid-budget US indie films.

Number 17: Florence Welch

 

Claim to fame: Florence And The Machine's main attraction
Worth: £8,133,000
Age: 26
Last year: Number 29

After appearing on pretty much every festival line-up over the past couple of years, Florence And The Machine's Florence Welch is rolling in cash. Her bandmates - not so much.

Number 16: Mika

 

Claim to fame: High-pitched, cheerful songster
Worth: £8,500,000
Age: 29
Last year: Number 14

We're as surprised as you, but apparently Grace Kelly star Mika's huge debut album has set him up for life, despite his second album coasting along. What riches will his thrid album bring?

Number 15: Coleen Rooney

 

Claim to fame: WAG and, erm, no that's it actually
Worth: £9,000,000
Age: 26
Last year: Non-mover, Number 15

Coleen Rooney's married to Wayne Rooney. Nuff said.

Number 14: Joss Stone

 

Claim to fame: Smooooooooth soul singer
Worth: £9,400,000
Age: 25
Last year: Number 12

Despite making a cool £10 million in her time as a pop star, Joss Stone had to spend nearly every penny buying herself out of her record contract. She's still doing pretty well mind you.

Number 13: Charlotte Church

 

Claim to fame: Opera megalord
Worth: £9,410,000
Age: 26
Last year: Number 10

Thanks to her early start in the music industry, plus a nice little £600,000 payout from the News Of The World for hacking her phone, Charlotte Church has plenty to be smiling about.

Number 12: Emily Blunt

 

Claim to fame: The Devil Wears Prada meanie
Worth: £9,466,000
Age: 29
Last year: Number 11

With The Devil Wears Prada cementing her Hollywood career, Emily Blunt is making money left, right and centre with the help of blockbusters like Looper.

Number 11: Alex Turner

 

Claim to fame: Arctic Monkeys frontman 
Worth: £9,800,000
Age: 26
Last year: Number 13

Funny how the rest of the Arctic Monkeys boys aren't in the heat Rich List... Has Alex Turner been fiddling the books?

Number 10: Katie Melua

 

Claim to fame: Jazz songstress
Worth: £11,066,000
Age: 28
Last year: Number 8

Katie Melua's fifth - that's right her fifth - album went Top Ten all across Europe recently, reminding us of all the mellow jazz-loving folk there are inhabiting the Earth.

Number 9: Cheryl Cole

 

Claim to fame: One fifth of Girls Aloud and former X Factor judge
Worth: £13,400,000
Age: 29
Last year: Number 7

Leaving the rest of the Girls Aloud ladies eating her dust, Cheryl Cole storms into the heat Rich List Top Ten thanks to her mega-successful third album, plus the GA reunion.

Number 8: Leona Lewis

 

Claim to fame: Singing sensation
Worth: £13,660,000
Age: 27
Last year: Number 6

After selling tons of records both here and in the US of A, Leona Lewis is the richest of all the X Factor stars - well except for One Direction, as you'll see shortly...

Number 7: Rupert Grint

 

Claim to fame: Harry Potter's Number One ginger
Worth: £23,466,000
Age: 24
Last year: Number 5

Who wouldn't be loaded after starring in all those Harry Potter films? But what has Rupert Grint done since HP? Well he's got a new movie, an adaptation of Macbeth - Enemy Of Man, coming out, which should add to his already bulging bank balance.

Number 6: Adele

 

Claim to fame: The biggest voice on the planet
Worth: £26,066,000 
Age: 24
Last year: Number 16

Up a staggering ten places on 2011's list, Adele is not only Rolling In The Deep but she's also rolling in the cash thanks to her album 21. Her new Bond theme Skyfall probably didn't hurt either...

Number 5: One Direction

 

Claim to fame: X Factor's biggest success story
Worth: £26,330,000
Age: Niall Horan - 19, Harry Styles - 18, Liam Payne - 19, Zayn Malik - 19, Louis Thurgood - 20
Last year: New entry

Just take one minute to think about how good it must be being a devilishly handome young man in a boy band with a £26 million fortune. One Direction have it pretty good, eh?

Number 4: Emma Watson

 

Claim to fame: Harry Potter's favourite lady
Worth: £26,533,000
Age: 22
Last year: Non-mover, Number 4

We all thought she'd throw in the acting towel after Harry Potter and go off and do something academic, but Emma Watson's surprised us all by starring in hit movie The Perks Of Being A Wallflower, and her upcoming film The Bling Ring. With £26 million in her bank, Emma can afford to have the blingiest ring in town.

Number 3: Keira Knightley

 

Claim to fame: Pouty actress
Worth: £32,700,000
Age: 27
Last year: Number 2

Starring in three Pirates Of The Caribbean movies has really set Keira Knightely up for life. But that's no reason to turn down other money making films, like Anna Karenina.

Number 2: Robert Pattinson

 

Claim to fame: Twilight hearthrob
Worth: £38,733,000
Age: 26
Last year: Number 3

Granted, Robert Pattinson's not had a great year - what with all that Kristen Stewart adultery and whatnot - but with £38 million of Twilight cash burning a hole in your pocket, surely you can't stay sad for too long R-Pattz?

Number 1: Daniel Radcliffe

 

Claim to fame: He's Harry Potter innit?
Worth: £53,330, 000
Age: 23
Last year: Non-mover, Number 1

Two years in a row, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has topped the heat Rich List with his multi-million pound fortune. But it's not just his Harry Potter payslips that have lined his pockets so nicely - he did all right in this year's Hammer Horror The Woman In Black and his very naked time in the West End's Equus.

Hip, hip hooray to Harry!