Businessperson, Author, Singer-songwriter, Actor, Musician, Record producer, Film Producer
Dolly Parton Net Worth
Dolly Parton is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, who has a net worth of $600 million dollars. She is known primarily for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has been writing and performing hit country songs for over 40 years.
After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I’m Dolly. After her success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. Parton’s albums in the 1990s did not sell as well, but she achieved commercial success again in the new millennium and has released albums on various independent labels since 2000, including her own label, Dolly Records.
Parton’s music includes Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified gold, platinum, and multi-platinum awards. She has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist (tied with Reba McEntire). She has 44 career Top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. She has garnered ten Grammy Awards and 49 nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award and a 2020 win with for KING & COUNTRY for their collaboration on “God Only Knows”; 10 Country Music Association Awards, including Entertainer of the Year and is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award; five Academy of Country Music Awards, also including a nod for Entertainer of the Year; four People’s Choice Awards; and three American Music Awards.
In 1999, Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has composed over 3,000 songs, including “I Will Always Love You” (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston), “Jolene”, “Coat of Many Colors”, and “9 to 5”. She is also in a select group to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards. As an actress, she has starred in films such as 9 to 5 (1980) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), for which she earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress, as well as Rhinestone (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Straight Talk (1992) and Joyful Noise (2012).
During her career she has sold more than 100 million albums as a solo artist alone. That does not include the hundreds of millions of albums that other artists have sold using her songs. Dolly has invest large portions of her fortune in her native Tennessee through philanthropy and entrepreneurial efforts. Her theme park Dollywood is the 24th most-visited theme park in the US, welcoming 3 million visitors a year. She had donated and/or raised hundreds of millions of dollars to support a variety of charities.
Jared Leto is an American actor and musician who has a net worth of $100 million. Known for his method of acting in a variety of roles, he received numerous accolades throughout his career which spanned over three decades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Critics’ Choice Movie Award.
Additionally, he is recognized for his musicianship and eccentric stage persona as a member of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
He first rose to fame for his portrayal Jordan Catalano on the teenage drama “My So-Called Life” (1994 – 1995), and he has starred in several notable films, including “Prefontaine” (1997), “Fight Club” (1999), “Girl, Interrupted” (1999), “Dallas Buyers Club” (2013), and “Suicide Squad” (2016). Leto has won dozens of awards for his work, including an Academy Award and Golden Globe for “Dallas Buyers Club.” In addition to his acting work, Jared has performed lead vocals, guitar, bass, and keyboard in the band Thirty Seconds to Mars since 1998.
Leto is the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter for Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band he formed in 1998 with his older brother Shannon Leto. Its debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars (2002), was released to positive reviews but to limited commercial success. Its second album, A Beautiful Lie (2005), pushed the band into the public eye and the next releases, This Is War (2009) and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical and commercial success. It was followed by America (2018), which polarized critics upon release. The band has sold over 15 million albums worldwide
Drake is a Canadian-born actor, producer and rapper who has a net worth of $300 million dollars. Drake is consistently one of the highest-paid entertainers in the world.An influential figure in modern popular music, Drake has been credited for popularizing singing and R&B sensibilities in hip hop.
Gaining recognition by starring as Jimmy Brooks in the CTV teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–08), Drake pursued a career in music releasing his debut mixtape Room for Improvement in 2006; he released the mixtapes Comeback Season (2007) and So Far Gone (2009) before signing with Young Money Entertainment. Since first gaining mainstream success, Drake has earned more than $550 million in his career before taxes and lifestyle costs.
Among the world’s best-selling music artists, with over 170 million records sold, Drake is ranked as the highest-certified digital singles artist in the United States by the RIAA. As of this writing, he has won four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, a record 34 Billboard Music Awards, two Brit Awards, and three Juno Awards.
Drake has achieved 10 number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and holds further Hot 100 records; he has the most top 10 singles (54), the most charted songs (258),the most simultaneously charted songs in one week (27), the most Hot 100 debuts in one week (22), and the most continuous time on the Hot 100 (431 weeks).
He additionally has the most number-one singles on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, Hot Rap Songs, and Rhythmic Airplay charts.
August Alsina is an American recording artist who has a net worth of $4 million dollars. He began uploading his own singing videos to YouTube in 2007 and has since released a number of popular recordings.
He released his first mixtape The Product in 2012, followed by The Product 2 and his debut extended play (EP) Downtown: Life Under the Gun in 2013, the latter released under The-Dream’s Radio Killa Records and Def Jam Recordings. Alsina then his debut studio album Testimony in 2014, after garnering success from the Platinum-selling singles “I Luv This Shit” (featuring Trinidad James) and “No Love” (featuring Nicki Minaj).The album was followed up by This Thing Called Life in 2015.
After leaving Def Jam and a long hiatus, he released the EP Forever and a Day in 2019. In 2020, Alsina released his third album, The Product III: State of Emergency—along with a five-part documentary series detailing his life experiences, family, and health, supported by a heavily publicized “entanglement” with actress Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith’s Relationship
On June 30, 2020, Alsina claimed he was granted permission from Will Smith to be in a romantic relationship with his wife Jada Pinkett Smith. The following day, a representative for Pinkett Smith released a statement concerning the claims, referring to them as “absolutely not true.” However, on July 10, in an episode of her talk show Red Table Talk, alongside Will Smith, Jada revealed that she did have a romantic relationship with Alsina four and a half years prior, when she and Will were separated. She stated she “got into a different kind of entanglement with August.” Jada and Will denied that Will gave Alsina permission for the relationship, with Jada saying Alsina “would perceive it as permission because we [her and Will] were separated amicably”. Pinkett Smith further claimed she wanted to “heal” Alsina, but needed to find healing for herself first. She and Will eventually reconciled after she broke things off with Alsina; she says she has not spoken with Alsina since.
After Jada’s use of the word “entanglement” went viral on the Internet, Alsina released a collaboration titled “Entanglements” with rapper Rick Ross on July 19, 2020, in which Alsina sings “You left your man just to fuck with me and break his heart”.
