Kim Petras Net Worth

What Is Kim Petras' Net Worth?

Kim Petras is a German singer and songwriter who has a net worth of $4 million. Kim Petras earned fame thanks to her debut mixtape, "Clarity" (2019), which reached #7 on the US Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart and #26 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart. In 2023, Petras released the studio albums "Feed the Beast" and "Problématique." Her 2022 single "Unholy" (with Sam Smith) reached #1 in numerous countries and was certified Platinum or higher in 16 countries. The song won a Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Kim was the first-ever openly transgender artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the second trans woman to win a Grammy. Her musical styles include pop, EDM, dance-pop, and electropop, and she has collaborated with artists such as Kash Doll, Klaas, Charli XCX, JoJo, Skylar Stecker, Twice, and LIZ.

Early Life

Kim Petras was born on August 27, 1992, in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Her father works as an architect, and her mother is a dancer and choreographer. Petras has said that the first song she wrote was "about this dude in second grade who didn't like [her] back." When she was 13, Kim spoke about her medical gender transition on a German TV show. At the age of 14, she appeared on a talk show and in a documentary in an attempt to get permission to have sex reassignment surgery earlier than the minimum age of 18, and she was subsequently allowed to have the surgery when she was 16. According to The Daily Telegraph, Petras was the youngest person at the time to have undergone gender-affirming surgery. Kim learned to speak English by watching Britney Spears videos.

Career

Petras moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19 and lived in the garage of a producer's Redondo Beach home. In 2011, she released the EP "One Piece of Tape," and in 2013, she performed on the DJ Klaas singles "Heartbeat" and "Flight to Paris." Kim released demos on her SoundCloud page, and in 2013, she was ranked #19 on Billboard's Artist Chart of developing artists. In 2017, she released the single "I Don't Want It at All," which made it onto the Spotify Global Viral chart. By the end of the year, Petras had been chosen as one of Spotify's RISE Artists, a "program designed to identify and break the next wave of music superstars," and Paper magazine named her the "most likely to dominate the pop charts." She was also featured on the song "Unlock It" (with Jay Park) on the Charli XCX mixtape "Pop 2." Kim released the Halloween-themed EP "Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1" in October 2018, and it reached #21 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart and #45 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart. She followed "Turn Off the Light, Vol. 1" with the 2019 mixtape "Clarity," which peaked at #7 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, #28 on the Independent Albums chart, and #78 on the Billboard Top Current Album Sales chart.

In October 2019, Petras released the mixtape "Turn Off the Light," which reached #14 on the Heatseekers Albums chart, #42 on the Independent Albums chart, and #46 on the Top Current Album Sales chart. Next, she released the 2022 EP "Slut Pop," which topped the Heatseekers Albums chart and reached #34 on the UK Album Downloads chart. In June 2023, Kim released her debut studio album, "Feed the Beast," and it peaked at #2 on the Billboard Top Dance Albums chart, #24 on the German Albums chart, #35 on the Scottish Albums chart, #44 on the Billboard 200 chart, and #52 on the UK Albums chart. The album featured a collaboration with Sam Smith titled "Unholy," which was a massive hit, reaching #1 in numerous countries. The single was certified Platinum or higher in 16 countries, and it won a Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The album also included the single "Alone," a collaboration with Nicki Minaj that was a top 10 hit on several charts and went Gold in Canada. In September 2023, Petras released her second studio album, "Problématique," and it peaked at #8 on the Top Dance Albums chart. Later that year, she collaborated with David Guetta on the song "When We Were Young (The Logical Song)," which reached the top 10 on the charts in Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Moldova, the Netherlands, and Russia. In 2024, Kim released the EP "Slut Pop Miami," which reached #14 on the Top Dance Albums chart.

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Personal Life

Kim has been open about her experience with transphobia, both personally and professionally. She said that several record labels rejected her because she's transgender, and some tried to convince other labels to turn her down as well. Petras told V Magazine in 2019, "I've had a lot of meetings with labels where the only thing they're able to talk about is me being transgender, not even the music." She added, "Really religious people at major labels in LA have said: 'You're going to hell if you work with Kim Petras.'" In 2023, she became the second transgender woman to grace the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

Awards and Nominations

In 2023, Petras and Sam Smith won a Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Unholy." The song also earned them awards from the iHeartRadio Music Awards, Queerty Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards Japan, and Juno Awards and nominations from the Brit Awards and Gold Derby Awards. The duo also received five MTV Video Music Award nominations: Song of the Year, Video of the Year, Best Visual Effects (shared with Max Colt), Best Direction (shared with Floria Sigismondi), and Best Choreography (shared with Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel). In 2020, Kim earned a Queerty nomination in the Badass category, and she received nominations in the Anthem category for "Sweet Spot" (2020), "Malibu" (2021), and "Coconuts" (2022). In 2023, she earned a Gold Derby Award nomination for Best New Artist, and in 2024, she received a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Music Artist for "Feed the Beast" and "Problématique."

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