Axl Rose, a 62-year-old American musician with an estimated net worth of $200 million, is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses. The Indiana native is the wealthiest member of the Los Angeles-based band, followed by Slash, Duff McKagan, and Dizzy Reed, who are each worth $90 million, $70 million, and $40 million, respectively.
It’s not surprising that Rose amassed such substantial wealth from his musical career, given that Guns N’ Roses earned over $584 million from their 2016 Not in This Lifetime… Tour, which concluded in 2019. He also earned money for his uncredited role in the 1988 film The Dead Pool, as well as the 2021 animated TV series Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
How Axl Rose Made His $200 Million Fortune
Axl Rose’s net worth is now estimated by a number of websites, including celebritynetwoth.com and wealthygorilla.com, to be $200 million. He made the money from his musical career, which started in Los Angeles in the early 1980s with a number of bands, including Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns.
After helping to co-found Guns N’ Rose in 1985, he began to receive some recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Notably, the band’s debut album Appetite for Destruction (1987) achieved global sales of 30 million copies. It was followed by the twin albums Use Your Illusion l and Use Your Illusion ll (1991), which together achieved worldwide sales of 35 million copies.
He withdrew from the public for a few years in the middle of the 1990s, and the band broke up as a result of issues relating to musical and personal differences. After obtaining the band’s name, he kept working under the band’s banner.
In the early 2000s, he came up with a new line-up for the band that include Tommy Stinson, Buckethead, and Chris Pitman. Moreover, Chinese Democracy, the group’s sixth studio album, was released in 2008 and had a production budget of almost $14 million. The record undersold despite having cost a fortune to produce.
The band then organized the Not in This Lifetime… Tour in 2016, and by the time it was over in 2019, it had earned over $584 million, making it the fourth-highest-grossing concert tour ever at the moment. In addition, the band is currently one of the best-selling acts in history, having sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, including 45 million in the United States.
What the band was making throughout the concert tour had an impact on Rose’s income, as he was estimated to have made roughly $20 million between 2017 and 2018.
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Rose’s Other Sources Of Money
Outside what he makes from music, Axl Rose also earns from various endeavors such as acting.
The Lafayette native is known to have had an uncredited role in The Dead Pool (1988) and appeared as Axl Rose in a few animated series such as New Looney Tunes (2018) and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (2021). He also played the role of DJ Tommy “The Nightmare” Smith of K-DST radion in the 2004 action-adventure computer game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Axl Rose Is The Richest Member Of The Guns N’ Roses
Having examined Rose’s wealth and that of other current members of Guns N’ Roses, he is the richest of them all.
As established, he has an estimated net worth of $200 million, which was earned from 41 years old career alongside other endeavors. However, the remaining current members of the band on an individual level have not earned up to 50 percent of what the lead vocalist has made over the years.
The closest to him is the band’s lead guitarist, Slash whose net worth is approximately $90 million. The British American made the fortune from his music career and acting. Celebritynetworth.com reported that Slash and Rose made $40 million from the Not in our Lifetime… Tour.
After Slash is Duff McKagan, the band’s bassist. He has an estimated net worth of $70 million, with most of it coming from his music career and the rest from his other endeavors such as acting.
Dizzy Reed and Frank Ferrer are next in line with respective net worths of $40 million and $32 million. Reed and Ferrer also amassed a fortune from music and other ventures.
While Richard Fortus and Melissa Reese have an estimated net worth of $6 million and $5 million, respectively. Just like the rest of the others, they also made their money off music and other sources.
Here is a look at the net worth of the current members of Guns N’ Roses.
