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The 19 richest men in dance music (and how much they are worth)
EDM is worth $6.2billion - but what about the stars?
by Michael Baggs | Photos by WENN
The EDM industry is worth an incredible $6.2billion, according to new reports - which goes some way to explaining why Calvin Harris always looks so bloody happy. He is literally rolling in money.
The explosion in the dance and EDM comes from the huge fees paid for club appearances and the popularity of festival events such as Las Vegas's Electric Daisy Carnival, where club kids from across America flock to the Nevada desert to listen to banging house music and fill themselves with as much MDMA as is humanly possible. Or not, as the case may be...
But what about the big names in dance? Who's worth what? If Deadmau5 is valued at a paltry $18million - who are the top names? Find out here...
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