The 2019 edition, set to be published next weekend, lists the band as having increased its wealth to £445 million ($584 million) while monarch Elizabeth II remained with her previous amount of £375 million ($492 million).
While part of the change in status was down to the Rich List’s rules having changed, removing some of the Queen’s wealth from the statistics, the success of the Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody was described as a major contributor to the earnings of Brian May,Roger Taylor and John Deacon.