Dua Lipa's net worth is sky rocketing!
On Friday 16th May, The Sunday Time's 40 Under 40 Rich List was released, and the 29-year-old made history as the youngest person to make the list this year and the only celebrity under 30.
Since she released her first single in 2025, Dua Lipa has been on the Up.
The British and Albanian star has already racked up a long list of hits and several shelves worth of high-profile awards. She has three Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards, and two Billboard Music Awards.
Last year, she released her third studio album, Radical Optimism, and headlined Glastonbury Festival.
Dua Lipa was 34th on the Rich List, which included the likes of Ed Sheeran, Georgia Toffolo, Harry Styles and Harry Kane, and is said to have an estimated wealth of £115 million - yes, you read correctly!
In 2024, The Sunday Times Rich List estimated her net worth at £90 million, and now, her wealth is said to have surpassed £100 million.
So, how did Dua Lipa make all her millions?
Here's what we know about how she built that massive wealth in less than a decade.
She was a waitress before she was signed to a record deal
Before she landed her record deal, Dua Lipa had a series of very normal, very low-paying gigs, including retail jobs, hostessing at Soho’s Mexican restaurant La Bodega Negra, and being That Girl With the Checklist who turned people away from getting into nightclub Mayfair.
"It was awful, not very nice at all," she told the Evening Standard in 2016 of her nightclub gatekeeping days. "You have to be a very cold person to stand there and tell people they can’t come in when it would be perfectly fine. When I had to turn away my friends because they were wearing trainers, I knew it wasn’t the kind of place I wanted to work."
The point is this: Dua Lipa had almost definitely saved almost no money before she broke into the music industry.
Her music career took off FAST
Dua Lipa signed her record deal with Warner Bros. Records UK in 2014, released her first single, 'New Love,' in 2015, and dropped her self-titled debut album to rave reviews in 2017.
And if you noticed that serious leap her net worth took in 2020 and wondered what caused it, that would be her sophomore album, Future Nostalgia, which was released that year to even more critical acclaim than her first album.
Future Nostalgia's lead single, 'Don't Start Now' reached No. 2 on the Billboard charts (making it her biggest hit in the United States to date) and was followed by five more singles from the album. And that's not even touching on the many, many hit collabs she's been a part of (uhm, hi. The Barbie soundtrack, which BTW she legit also STARRED IN, anyone?!?!)
She headlined Glastonbury in 2024
Dua Lipa headlined Glastonbury last year, playing in their prestigious Friday evening slot. Performance fees are said to have contributed a staggering £46.5 million to her earnings, while merchandise sales brought in nearly £1 million. An additional £4.3 million was recorded as other income on her balance sheet, as per Virgin Radio UK.
She has her own music label Radical22
Dua Lipa owns her music catalogue and has co-founded companies, including her own music label Radical22, which reported a pre-tax profit of £13.7 million in 2024.
Her Future Nostalgia Tour was a HUGE success
Dua Lipa has been successful across the board in her career, but her Future Nostalgia Tour took things to the next level. The tour grossed more than $40 million (around £33 million) in the US and Canada alone. According to Billboard, 394,000 tickets were sold for the first leg of the tour, which was a 346% increase in ticket sales compared to Dua Lipa's tour for her first album. The gross-per-show was also much higher for the Future Nostalgia Tour compared to her Self-Titled Tour (up a jaw-dropping 1,479%).
She's also a brand ambassador
In addition to the money Dua Lipa has earned directly from her music and touring, she has a lucrative side hustle working as a brand ambassador for some high-profile brands, including Yves Saint Laurent (as the face of the brand's Libre fragrance), Evian, and Puma.
Oh, and just in case that wasn't enough, she's also collaborated on three collections for Pepe Jeans, and recently paired up with *the* Donatella Versace to release the La Vacanza collection with the designer's legendary brand.
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