How much is Madonna worth?
| Net Worth: | $800 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Singer |
| Date of Birth: | August 16, 1958 (age 64) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 4 in (1.64 m) |
About Madonna
From her catchy dance tunes, iconic dress sense, the often controversial images she depicted in her music videos and concert tours, like being attracted to a black Jesus Christ to bringing to the mainstream Voguing, the dance style of the underground cross-dressing African American community in 80s New York, Madonna’s music and music videos are the staple of all clubs from the 80s to 2000s in almost every club around the world.
Often known for her stunts like kissing Britney Spears on stage Madonna often pushes the envelope especially if she feels she needs to start reinventing her image. Madonna has also become an international fashion icon for girls, women, and even men. Thanks to her complete distinctiveness from other artists, as well as her musical talent, Madonna has become one of the best known and influential entertainers of all time.
“I have the same goal I’ve had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world.” Madonna
Throughout her booming career Madonna has amassed an enormous net worth estimated to be at about $800 million dollars. This vast fortune is thanks to her scintillating and commercially successful music career, acting career, as well as her ventures in business and entrepreneurship.
Madonna is the holder of many records having to do with commercial musical success. Guinness World Records certified her as the best selling female recording artist of all time, having sold more than 300 million records worldwide, and Billboard reports that she is the most successful solo artist in Billboard Hot 100 history. Madonna is also the highest grossing solo touring artist of all time, with an accumulated $1.4 billion dollars earned from her concert ticket sales.
Madonna is also a savvy businesswoman, having been involved in the establishment of several companies. She co-founded an entertainment company, called Maverick, before she left in 2004 following a lawsuit. She founded Hard Candy Fitness, a chain of fitness centers, in partnership with her manager Guy Oseary and Mark Mastrov, who is the founder and CEO of 24 Hour Fitness. She also released her own fragrance, called Truth or Dare by Madonna.
What’s more, her acting career is often missed entirely from her record, even though she has starred in successful movies such as Evita and Desperately Seeking Susan. Madonna’s film career may not have been met with all positive reviews, they have, however, certainly bolstered her career and crossed sold her music.
Though critics can’t seem to decide whether Madonna is a noteworthy actress or not, it is clear that her careers in music, film, and business have helped her net worth grow into the tremendous fortune she has today.
Thanks to her massively successful career in the music industry and her exceptional commercial success in album sales and touring, as well as her various business ventures, Madonna is one of the richest entertainers in our world today. Madonna has released 14 studio albums, performed in 11 concert tours, and 17 films and directed 2 films in the span of her career.
Madonna’s success comes first and foremost from her indisputable talent in songwriting and dancing, owing much to her early training in dance. However, it’s also in large part the steely control and perfection for every detail of her work that she demanded that has catapulted her to the revered status she commands today. Ever since her first album, she had wanted a hand in producing it, and from her second studio album onwards, Madonna learned very quickly and became the producer of her future albums.
Very early on, Madonna was a new kind of performing artist that the world had not yet seen prior to the moment she was launched onto the world stage with her Like A Virgin album. No recording and performance artist had used their concert tours to promote their albums as effectively as Madonna.
Madonna’s concerts were not just a visual feast complete with elaborate set changes, they were much like a circus production, with a myriad of performances taking place at every corner of the stage. One could say her concerts became a separate product by themselves, altogether. One didn’t need to know or like her music to enjoy the spectacular show she puts on every time.
She also knows how to stay relevant throughout the years, reinventing her stage persona. Her fans talk about her stage persona as comprising of different eras, her Like A Virgin era, her Material Girl era to her Mystic Madge era.
Madonna was also a star who knew how to drive collaterals of her main product, music, to such frenzy that her coffee table book Sex which contained explicit images sold 1.5 million copies within days of its release, while at the same time kicking up huge controversies that several countries banned the book from sale. In a word, she is a marketing juggernaut.
Not only has she captured the music world with her songs and concert tours, she has proven herself to be a serious actress with the films she has starred in, like winning a Golden Globe for Best Actress as Eva Peron, and also the ones she has produced and directed.
If anyone were to think that she’s only capable of mainstream pop entertainment, they would be wrong, because this plucky lady is also a producer of documentaries like I Am Because We Are, an insight into Malawians orphans who are afflicted with AIDs.
Summing-Up
Though she started out as a dance student, Madonna branched out to vocals and songwriting, which allowed her to begin a fast-growing music career. She quickly became famous, her sense of style and image as a performer becoming hugely iconic, and is now internationally known. Thanks to her distinctiveness and originality, as well as her undeniable talent, Madonna has been able to achieve insane levels of fame and wealth. In the recent past, she has collaborated with up and coming superstars like Maluma in singles which have helped launch this Latin singer.
