7. Guy Manuel & Thomas Bangalter - Daft Punk

$70 million (each)

Guy Manuel and Thomas Bangalter together are the legendary French house music duo that is Daft Punk. They met 1987 when they attended school together as kids. They formed an indie band called Darlin’ but called it quits after they received a bad review calling the band “a daft punky thrash.” No hard feelings though because after going to a club in 1992 the two got into producing house music and called their new band Daft Punk. 70 million bucks each and an incredible musical career later, I’d say the boys did alright.

6. David Guetta

$75 million

David Guetta is also a French DJ born and raised in Paris. He released his first album in 2002 titled Just a Little More Love. In 2009, his fourth album, One Love broke him out into international success with 4 hit singles on the record. To date, Guetta has toured all over the world, sold over 9 million albums and 30 million singles worldwide. His net worth is $75 million and he isn’t stopping.

5. Steve Aoki

$75 million

Steve Aoki is an American DJ, record producer and music executive, known for his remixes of other artists. In his 20’s, Steve founded his own record label called Dim Mak, that produced records for many underground EDM producers that went on to have successful careers. In his own music career, Aoki has released several Billboard-charting albums, most notably Wonderland, that won a grammy in 2013. He is also the founder of the Steve Aoki Charitable Fund, which raises funds for global humanitarian relief projects.

4. Avicii

$85 million

The stage name Avicii belongs to Swedish DJ and record producer Tim Bergling. At just 16 years old, Tim started posting his own remixes on electronic message boards online that led to his first record deal. He had his first international success in 2011 with his hit single “Levels.” In 2012, he was nominated for a grammy with his work on “Sunshine” with David Guetta. He released his second studio album in 2015 and another EP in 2017. Many music critics and experts credit Avicii as ushering electronic music into the Top 40 radio in the early 2010’s. Tim struggled with mental health problems and unfortunately took his own life in April, 2018. His third album was published posthumously in June, 2019.

3. Swedish House Mafia

$100 million

Swedish House Mafia is a Swedish House music super group consisting of Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso. Before forming in 2008, the members were individual Dj’s playing in Sweden in the late 1990’s to 2000’s. They all became top tier DJ’s in the scene, and started being booked together for shows. Fans started referring them as the Swedish House Mafia because they played to gather so much. They guys adopted the name and gave it a go. They released their first album in 2010 titled Until One. It had their first successful single on it “One”, which went to number 7 on the UK Singles Charts. In 2011, they were ranked number 10 on DJ Mag: Top 100 DJ Poll and in 2012 they were ranked number 12. In 2012 they announced they were going to split up and gave their last performance in March of 2013. But in 2018, they reunited for a closing set to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ultra Music Festival.

2. DJ Tiesto

$150 million

Tijs Michiel Verwest, otherwise known as his stage name DJ Tiesto, is a Dutch DJ and record producer. He started DJ’ing when he was just 14 years old for school parties. He came into prominence with his 2001 album In My Memory, that contained 5 hit singles. Tiesto was one of the first DJ’s where he was the solo act, selling out huge venues. This was very new at the time. During his career Tiesto has accumulated countless awards. He was the first DJ to hold DJ Magazine’s “No. 1 DJ In The World” title for three consecutive years: 2002, 2003, and 2004. In 2008, he was nominated for a Grammy for his album Elements of Life. He won a Grammy in 2015 for his remix of John Legend’s song All of Me. He was voted by the Dutch people as their 40th greatest citizen of all time. He is considered the God Father of EDM Music.

1 Calvin Harris

$190 million

Tijs Michiel Verwes, otherwise known as his stage name DJ Tiesto, is a Dutch DJ and record producer. He started DJ’ing when he was just 14 years old for school parties. He came into prominence with his 2001 album In My Memory, that contained 5 hit singles. Tiesto was one of the first DJ’s where he was the solo act, selling out huge venues. This was very new at the time. During his career Tiesto has accumulated countless awards. He was the first DJ to hold DJ Magazine’s “No. 1 DJ In The World” title for three consecutive years: 2002, 2003, and 2004. In 2008, he was nominated for a Grammy for his album Elements of Life. He won a Grammy in 2015 for his remix of John Legend’s song All of Me. He was voted by the Dutch people as their 40th greatest citizen of all time. He is considered the God Father of EDM Music.

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