Kesha is a famed American singer, songwriter and rapper who has an estimated net worth of 10 million. She started her singing career by signing a contract with Dr Luke’s Kemosabe Records owned by Sony music entertainment in 2005.
From 2005 to 2021, Kesha has sung a total of 102 songs including single and featuring (ft.). A total of 71 million albums have been sold solely in the United States of America and 134 million has been sold all over the world.
She is not only a singer but also a great songwriter. She has written a total of 75 songs till now and every one of her songwriting is a hit.
Though Kesha started her singing career in 2005, her songs started to win awards from 2010. Her songs got a total of 89 nominations for different awards and won 23 awards within the nominations.
Two of her songs have been nominated for the GAFFA award in 2021. The award announcement is pending.
Sources of Earning
As Kesha is a singer and a songwriter at a time, her earning sources are heavily dependent on these kinds of works. But there are some other businesses she does besides her regular schedule. Earning sources of Kesha is given below:
- By selling studio albums
- Working single as lead or featuring artist
- From YouTube ads
- From concerts
- Endorsement of commercial items
- Online merchandise selling
By Selling Studio Albums
Kesha earns a huge deal of money by selling studio albums. She has released 4 albums from 2010 to 2020. Her very first album ‘Animal’ was an absolute success.
The second album was also a success, but could not exceed the first one.
The third album named ‘Rainbow’ was not a success at all compared to the first and second ones. But Kesha hopes, album released in 2020 is going to hit again.
Albums descriptions are given below:
| Album Name | Release date | Sales [Unit: copies] |
| Animal | 1 January 2010 | World Wide: 2.5 millionUnited States: 1.47 million |
| Warrior | 4 December 2012 | United States: 350 thousands |
| Rainbow | 11 August 2017 | United States: 90 thousandsCanada: 7000 |
| High Road | 31 January 2020 | United States: 35 thousands |
Working Single as a Lead or Featuring Artist
For Kesha, single songs brought more earnings than the albums. She has done an aggregate of 20 single songs where she was a lead artist.
Besides, she has also done some songs where she was a featured artist. She has done a whole of 10 single songs where the featured artist was her role.
Some of her single songs that are gone hit are given below:
| Name of the song | Release date | Leading or featuring | Sales [Unit: copies] |
| Tik Tok | 2009 | leading | WW: 18 millionUSA: 6.8 million |
| Blow | 2011 | leading | USA: 3.4 million |
| Right Round | 2009 | featuring | WW: 12 millionUSA: 5.57 millionUK: 505 thousands |
| Timber | 2013 | Featuring | WW: 9.6 millionUSA: 4.7 millionUK: 139 thousands |
From YouTube Ads
On YouTube, Kesha has a channel with 4.02 million subscribers. The channel has 230 videos and a total of 1.9 billion views on her videos. Ads shown during watching videos give Kesha a huge amount of revenue.
She will earn around USD 3.8 million if $2 is paid per thousand views.
From Concerts
After releasing her album named ‘Warrior’ in December 2012, she started touring for performing concert performances in different places until her next album had released. That touring time duration is called a warrior tour. The tour started in July 2013 and ended in September 2015.
During this session, she had attended a total of 61 concerts and her team earned around 35.6 million dollars.
In support of her third studio album named ‘Rainbow’, she toured around the world to perform concerts and the touring time duration is called a rainbow tour. The tour started in September 2017 and ended in November 2019.
During the Rainbow tour, she had 53 concerts all over the globe and her revenue was around 6 million US dollar.
Endorsement of Commercial Items
Kesha earned a huge deal of money from promoting commercial items such as merchandise, vehicles, jewelry, cosmetics etc.
Online Merchandise Selling
Kesha has an official website where she sells varieties of merchandise such as Kesha logo tie dye hoodie, joggers, crewneck sweat t-shirt, sweatpants, different types of face mask etc.
She sells her iconic merchandise to her fan followers and earns money.
Income Summary
Kesha’s yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly income is summarized here:
- Yearly income: USD 7 million
- Monthly income: USD 583.3K
- Weekly income: USD 145.8K
- Daily income: USD 20.8K
- Hourly income: USD 868
Biography of Kesha:
| Full Name | Kesha Rose Sebert |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1 March 1987 |
| Birth Place | Los Angeles, California |
| Height | 5 feet 8 inch |
| Weight | 64Kg |
| Siblings | 2 brothers (1 older and 1 younger) |
| Marital Status | Unmarried |
| Boyfriend | Bard Ashenfelter (Net Worth $40 million) |
| Profession | Singer, songwriter, rapper |
| Nationality | American |
| Net Worth | $10 million |
| Salary | $7 million per year |
Real Estate
In 2014, Kesha owned a house near Venice and sold it in 2015 for USD 1.7 million. She also bought a house in Nashville and in 2016 she sold the house for USD 1.4 million. Recently, in March 2020, she owned a house in LA’s Mar Vista neighbourhood for USD 5 million.
Early Life
Kesha was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mother is Rosemary Patricia “Pebe” Sebert, a songwriter herself. Her mother was a single mother. Kesha faced poverty during her childhood. In 1991, they moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
She attended Franklin High School and later on Brentwood High School. After studying high school, she started her music career by signing with Kemosabe records.
FAQs
Kesha publicly said that she has no idea who her father is as her mother was a single mother. But she doubts that Mick Jagger is her actual biological father
Kesha is unmarried. She has a millionaire boyfriend named Brad Ashenfelter whose net worth is around USD 40 million.
Kesha said that when she was born, she had a quarter-inch vestigial tail and doctors separated her tail from her body.
Sources:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3732465/ — IMDb Kesha
https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/kesha — Social Blade Kesha
