Hello and Good Afternoon, Do You Want to Know How Much Money Lady Gaga Has?

26.08.2022, 02:13 cosmopolitan.com

But I digress! Gaga’s made her money thanks to multiple ingenious revenue streams, but let’s start with the obvious: If you’d like to know exactly how much money Gaga has made through her music, the answer is HOLY CRAP SO MUCH. According to RIAA, she has sold $80.5 million worth of digital singles. And her album sales are pretty fire too—Born This Way sold more than a million copies in its first week alone. That deserves some…wait for it…APPLAUSE. Heh. So, turns out one of the main ways musicians make their millions is from touring. As you already know if you’re a Little Monster, Lady Gaga’s tours are spectacular—and they’ve earned her a lot of money. Keep in mind that she doesn’t get to keep all this money (there are people to pay!), but here’s a sample of just how impressive her sales have been: The 2009 to 2011 Monster Ball Tour—which was by far her biggest tour—took home $227.4 million. Oh, and how can we forget Gaga’s Vegas residency? She literally made $1 million a NIGHT onstage and became the fifth woman with a Vegas residency to achieve the half-a-billion-dollars earnings milestone, which is a BFD. Plus, she's currently on her Chromatica Ball Tour, which is sure to bring her in a little (read: a lot) of $$. I’ll give you a moment to weep at your bank account. For the most part, brands that work with celebs aren’t like, “Here’s precisely how much we’re paying them!” but it’s safe to assume Gaga got paid plenty when she was made creative director of Polaroid (wow, sounds like a totally real job that she definitely did every day!), and let’s not forget her glamorous Versace campaign: FYI, Lady Gaga also makes tons of money on merch, which includes her line of perfumes. Her debut fragrance, Fame, was released in 2012, and as of 2013, it earned more than $1 billion worldwide. Yeah, that’s billion with a “b.” Oh, and let's not forget her truly iconic collab with Oreos for the launch of her Chromatica-themed cookies. A post shared by Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) At the time, Oreo Senior Director (okay, my dream title lol) Justin Parnell gushed to Variety that, “It's been incredible and beat our wildest expectations.” He added that the partnership partially came about in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to bring about positivity, noting, “Personally, one of the best parts was the experience of working with Lady Gaga and her team...She is such a genuine, vulnerable and kind person. To see how important her fans and doing good in the world is to her, it made us all feel great about the collective impact we can have together.” Following in the footsteps of her good friend Rihanna, Gaga made a makeup line of her own called Haus Laboratories with her longtime makeup artist Sarah Tanno. According to WWD, Haus Labs was the third best-selling celebrity makeup brand of 2020 (behind Fenty and Kylie Cosmetics), with more than $141.7 million of media value earnings. Not only did Lady Gaga star in the fifth season of American Horror Story (for which she won a Golden Globe!), but she also starred in 2018’s biggest blockbuster A Star Is Born AND played the lead role opposite Adam Driver in the Oscar-nominated film House of Gucci. It’s unclear how much Gaga’s made from her acting gigs, but A Star Is Born had a relatively small budget by Hollywood standards (just $36 million), so her initial take-home for the film likely wasn’t that huge despite her name recognition. As for House of Gucci, Parade reported last November that her exact salary isn’t known and would likely be based in part on the film’s performance at the box office (it reportedly pulled in almost $157 million worldwide, FWIW). Whatever Gaga made for the role, she definitely earned it, considering she says she spent a solid year and a half living in character as Patrizia Reggiani for the sake of her art (and our entertainment). “It is three years since I started working on it, and I will be fully honest and transparent: I lived as her for a year and a half,” she told British Vogue in December 2021. “And I spoke with an accent for nine months of that. I never broke. I stayed with her.” De-di-cat-ion, people! More recently, it was announced that the celeb is set to appear in the second Joker movie, which is ~officially~ titled Joker: Folie à Deux, alongside Joaquin Phoenix. After she posted the teaser on Twitter, fans not only collectively lost their sh*t, but also felt pretty confident that she will be playing the role of Harley Quinn, per Billboard (FYI, her exact role has yet to be confirmed, but a girl can dream!) Joker: Folie à Deux10.04.24 pic.twitter.com/obp7T9lBFL— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) According to Forbes, Gaga’s real estate holdings include a mansion in Malibu worth $23 million and Frank Zappa’s former home in Hollywood, which she got for $5.25 million. We’ve seen the outside of her home courtesy of Vogue, so enjoy! According to Forbes, Gaga’s net worth as of January 2021 was $150 million—but Celebrity Net Worth reports that it’s much higher at around $320 million. Read it and weep. And I mean that literally, because I am fully crying rn.