As the accompanying text points out, a popular DJ can easily earn $100k for a single night's work, while the upper echelon can earn between $500k and $1 million. Not only do they get paid to do live shows, but they also make fortunes from merch sales, licensing, records and endorsements. Indeed, DJs have become the rock stars of the modern era, with private jets, mansions, groupies and celebrity girlfriends.
Tiesto tops the list for the second year in a row. The Dutch-born DJ had a net worth of $65 million on the inaugural 2012 list and is now sitting on an estimated fortune of $75 million, more than enough to afford that customized Gulfstream. Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter are next, with a combined net worth of $120 million. Just out of the Top 20, believe it or not, is Jersey Shore alumnus Pauly D, who has parlayed his reality-show celebrity into an annual income of $11 million per year, half of it from DJing.
To calculate the net worths, Celebrity Net Worth’s researchers took into account all music sales, merch, touring revenue, licensing, endorsements, real estate, royalties, etc. They obtained the info from publicly available sources, promoters, managers, club owners and, in some cases, the artists themselves. They went so far as to take out taxes and various other fees to cover management, agents and legal expenses from the gross figures. Here’s the Top 20; go to the site to check out the entire Top 50.
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