He’s arguably one of the most influential country singers out there, Keith Urban‘s net worth is a wild venture. The country legend collaborated with Taylor Swift and has one of the richest catalogs in the world with 13 albums under his belt.
Urban has garnered four Grammy wins, 18 more nominations, five ARIA Awards, and 24 country Number One hits over the decades that he’s performed. The “Blue Ain’t Your Color” artist revealed his secret on how he still keeps his career lively. He thinks about his humble beginnings and how that passion never died. “A quick example is when I went into the record company to play my new album the other day for about 50 people,” he told Billboard. “I wanted to print out the lyrics to every song and while it was a lot of work, I didn’t want to have somebody do it and I wanted to do it myself. So, I stapled all the lyrics together and put together this massive presentation. It felt like putting up my own posters at the beginning of my career.”
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He continued, “If you lose that feeling, you do start to become jaded and you get bored and your passion just disappears. For me, my passion stays so long as I keep doing the things I did at the beginning and it keeps it exciting.”
What is Keith Urban’s net worth?
Keith Urban’s net worth is estimated to be around $75 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Most of his net worth comes from his music sales and touring. Meanwhile, his wife actress Nicole Kidman has a net worth of around $250 million. The two came from humble beginnings, growing up poor in Australia. Kidman praised her husband in an interview with Glamour UK, “I also married a man who’s totally self-made and came from a background where he said every brick in his house is a gig. He grew up on a farm, literally in a shed. They didn’t have bedrooms. Four of them lived in a shed that subsequently burned down. They have talked of a community that came and helped their family because they had nothing.”
Forbes reported that on his Defying Gravity tour, Urban played a total of 70 shows in 60 cities, with an average gross of $700,000 a night—which is about $49M. He’s currently doing a sold-out Las Vegas residency at the BleauLive Theater during October 2024 and February 2025.
In 2022, Keith Urban sold his catalog to Litmus, a music company founded with a $500 million backing from Carlyle Global Credit. Urban has earned 20.7 million equivalent album units for his catalog of albums in the U.S., according to Luminate. Of that sum, 14.9 million are in traditional album sales. The sale includes Urban’s 10 studio albums — including blockbusters like 2002’s Golden Road and 2004’s Be Here.
As well as performing, Urban served as a judge on American Idol from seasons 12 to 15. Reuters reports that Urban was paid $8 million to judge on his first season of Idol. However, some reports claim that he made as little as $3.5 million. Because we’re optimists, we hope Urban made closer to the $8 million range.
Celebrity aside, Keith Urban seemed short on cash on a trip to Wawa in 2018 and asked a stranger for some singles. “I didn’t know it was Keith Urban,” New Jersey teacher Ruth Reed told CBS3. “I didn’t think he had enough money to pay for his things so I said I would pay for it and briefly when he told me who he was and I didn’t believe it was him.”