How much is Doja Cat worth?
| Net Worth: | $7 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Singer |
| Date of Birth: | October 21, 1995 (age 27) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 2 in (1.6 m) |
About Doja Cat
Doja Cat is the stage name of Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini. She’s an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and record producer that began releasing music on SoundCloud as a teenager. At the age of 17, her song “So High” caught the attention of the labels Kemosabe and RCA Records that signed her to multi-year contracts. Despite the commercial failure of her debut studio album Amala, Doja was able to gain momentum and earn viral success as an internet meme following the release of her single “Mooo!”.
What made this iconic singer and songwriter so wealthy are her abilities to sing, write and produce hip hop, pop, and R&B music. It is estimated that Doja Cat, has earned income equal to a salary of $2-3 million dollars per year since 2019.
Shortly after she dropped out of school, Doja began using GarageBand and other tools to help her create her first music projects. Eventually, she bene uploading her own songs on SoundCloud, and in late 2012, following the release of her sleeper hit “So High”, she impressed the officials of Kemosabe Records and RCA Records that offered her a multi-year contract.
Doja Cat is famous for creating songs accompanied by music videos that instantly achieve international popularity on many social media applications. Amala was born on October 21, 1995, in Los Angeles, California to Dumisani Dlamini and Deborah Sawyer. She’s the only child of an artistic family, with her mother being a Jewish-American painter, while her father is a South African actor. According to Doja (and as stated in many interviews), she never met her father growing up.
Amala was born in Los Angeles, but her mother decided to move to New York when she was a child. There, they lived for five years and eventually moved back to California in Oak Park. Upon her return to California, her mother enrolled her in ballet, jazz, and tap lessons.
After frequently skipping school and losing interest in education, at the age of 16, she eventually dropped out of high school while she was in her junior year. In the early 2010s, she developed the stage name Doja Cat, which is a mixture of her favorite strain of marijuana and one of her cats.
After a four years long commercial hiatus from music, in early 2018, Doja released her single “Go to Town”. Throughout the rest of the year, she released her sleeper hit “Candy” which later influenced a “dance challenge” and went viral on TikTok, as well as her breakthrough novelty song “Mooo!“.
In March that year, she also released her debut studio album called Amala, however, it was considered a commercial failure and largely ignored by critics. The rapper was able to rebound quickly when she released another chart-topping hit – “Juicy”.
The success of the “Juicy” singer comes from her many hits, especially the ones included in her sophomore album Hot Pink. In 2019, Doja’s career took a turn and she became a sensation. Her second studio album titled Hot Pink was released in November that year and was preceded by a bunch of international hits such as “Bottom Bitch”, “Rules”, and “Cyber Sex”.
At first the album was met only with favorable reviews but then made its way into the Billboard 200, positioning at number 93 having having sold 7,900 album-equivalent units on the day of it’s release. A week later with 20,000 units sold it made it to number 19 and eventually into the top 10. In 2020, the album was certified gold for having sold more than 500,000 album-equivalent units in the United States.
Beginning in 2020, with the release of the singles “Say So” and “Like That” with remixed versions including best-selling rappers Nicki Minaj and Gucci Mane, Doja Cat’s name finally rose to stardom. That year, her highly acclaimed sophomore album and its viral singles received many awards and nominations such as American, MTV VMA, NRJ Music, and People’s Choice Awards.
Most recently, she received three nominations for Grammy Awards in the categories “Best New Artist” as herself, plus “Record of the Year”, and “Best Solo Performance” for her song “Say So”.
Doja Cat’s Total Net Worth
Doja Cat has earned estimated total career income of $17 million dollars. As Doja Cat lives in the state of California, she will have had to pay around 49% in taxes on her career income. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $8.67 million dollars, having paid $8.33 million dollars in taxes.
Doja Cat is not married and has no children. In 2021, she bought a $2.2 million dollar property in Beverly Hills. In her personal life she has likely spent $1-2 million dollars of her career earnings but also earned $850,000 from her investments. She will have also had to pay around $1 million dollars in business related costs. Therefore, it is estimated that Doja Cat has a net worth of about $7 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Doja Cat is one of the most astonishing new artists, as well as one of the quickest rising stars in the music industry. She began her career as a teenager and quickly signed with the labels Kemosabe and RCA. In less than a decade, she has earned millions from her music projects.
