Anthony Kiedis Net Worth: How Much is The American Musician Is Worth?

Anthony Kiedis net worth is estimated at $155 million. He is an American rock musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and a founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Anthony Kiedis is wealthy thanks to the success of his music group. His music career has spanned over three decades. Not just only a music artist, Kiedis is also an actor and author who has penned a best-selling book. In this article, we will give you an overview of Anthony Kiedis’ net worth as well as other important details.

How Much is Anthony Keidis Net Worth Today?

Anthony Kiedis has an estimated net worth of $155 million. Aside from his earnings from his music career, his net worth has been largely shaped by the tremendous wealth he has amassed from other endeavors. In addition to having written numerous songs for other artists, he is also the author of a few books, including his autobiography, Scar Tissue, which reached No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list as well as Fandemonium for which the musical band went on a mini-book tour.

The celebrated music artist has additionally dabbled as an actor and has appeared in some movies and series such as Jokes My Folks Never Told Me, Less Than Zero, Point Break, Chase, and others.

Anthony Kiedis has also served as the executive producer of the biopic film, Low Down and was among the faces of the American fashion designer, Marc Jacobs ad campaign in 2015. Through the sale of his asset – a three-bedroom, four-bathroom Hollywood Hills home in 1997, Anthony Kiedis realized the sum of $560,000. Then in 2015, he earned through the sales of his 1940s villa in Hollywood Hills West $4.2 million.

List of Anthony Kiedis’ Net Worth Sources

  • Music Sales
  • Touring
  • Book Sales
  • Real Estate
  • Royalty Payments
  • Acting

Meanwhile, through the sales of the Red Hot Chili Peppers albums, the band has bagged huge earnings, which are broken down in estimation below.

  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984) – $300,000
  • Freaky Stylet (1985) – $60,000
  • The Uplift Logo Party Plan (1987) – $500,000
  • Mother’s Milk (1989)- $1.1 million
  • Psychedelic Sexfunk Live from Heaven (1990) – $50,000
  • Funky Monks (1991) – $75,000
  • Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991) – $8.9 million
  • What Hits!? (1992) – $1.7 million
  • Out in L.A (1994) – $126,000
  • One Minute (1995) – $2.2 million
  • By the Way (2002) – $8.82 million
  • Californication (1999) – $14.7 million
  • Greatest Hits (2003) – $7.38 million
  • Stadium Arcadium (2006) – $6.64 million
  • I’m With You (2011) – $1.44 million
  • The Getaway (2016) – $1.5 million

Anthony Kiedis Background Details

The accomplished singer was born to John Michael Kiedis and Margaret “Peggy” Noble in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His father, who is better known as Blackie Dummett, is an actor. At the age of three, Anthony’s parents got separated and as a result, he was raised by his mother. He has three siblings; two from his mother’s second marriage and one from his father’s side.

Anthony Keidis is a graduate of Fairfax high school, Los Angeles, California. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles but later quit his studies in order to pursue a music career.

At the age of 12, Kiedis went to live with his father in California. During that time, he got used to using hard substances, including marijuana and cocaine. Having met Michael Balzary, who is known professionally as Flea, while in high school, Kiedis formed the musical group, Red Hot Chili Peppers in the early 1980s together with Flea and other bandmates. The band has moved on to release eleven studio albums, eight video albums, five extended plays, 47 music videos and 44 singles.

At present, the band has sold over 80 million albums worldwide. Along with his bandmates, Anthony Kiedis has gained 12 Grammy Awards nominations of which they have gone home with three. The band has made several exploits including attaining the most cumulative weeks at the number one spot on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart and equally producing 13 number one singles.

Anthony Kiedis
Anthony Kiedis performing on stage with his bandmates (image source)

In addition, about 25 of their songs have been among the Billboard Alternative Songs chart most top-10. Some of their most popular songs include “Get Up and Jump”, “Fight Like a Sugar Sex Magik”, “One Hot Minute”, “Buckle-Down”, “The Brother’s Cup”, “Cabron” and many others.

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