Money, Money, Money: the singers lifting economies with their vocals

From Beyonce to BTS, the star power of popular music artists is helping to revive pandemic-hit countries

Money has proved to be an enduring inspiration for some of the bestselling artists of all time: from Pink Floyd pondering the root of all evil" to the Wu-Tang Clan rapping how cash rules everything around me".

Some superstars are bigger, though, so big they are not content with merely singing about money, or even making lots of it, but prefer to move entire economies with their vocal cords.