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American record producer, musician, actor and artist Mike Shinoda has a net worth of $23 million. He raps solo with Fort Minor along with being a part of the band Linkin Park as co-frontman. He is also a keyboardist, songwriter and rhythm guitarist along with providing mixing, production and artwork.

He has been a pivotal part of almost every song contained in Linkin Park records right from Hybrid Theory. He is also credited with supervision and organization of ‘Reanimation’ the remix album in 2002. These were “Crawling” and “Pushing Me Away” among other production remixes made in his studio at home. Mike’s career took the fast lane with the release of “Collision Course” in 2004 by Jay-Z and Linkin Park. This album won the Grammy for the best song collaboration/rap in 2006 – it was mixed and produced by him. He also sang a featured vocal along with “In Between” and “No Roads Left”. Linkin Park merchandise, artwork on albums, on-stage production art and web design is credited to him.

Mike also has ten paintings to his name which formed a basis for “The Rising Tied” by Fort Minor. He has a public art show titled “Glorious Excess (BORN)” at the Los Angeles Japanese American National Museum and a partnership with DC Shoes in 2008 and a project of DC Remix Series. Shinoda also writes for The Big Issue, and will work as the US election correspondent for it. With the wide array of skilled work listed above, we will surely have no doubt about how he has made his riches.

He is a third generation Japanese American who was born on February 11th 1977 in Agoura Hills, California. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design of Pasadena in 1998 in Illustration.

Earnings & Financial Data

Date

Category

Description

Amount

2013

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the live album The Hunting Party: Live from Mexico with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified gold by IFPI-SWI)

$15,000

2013

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the album The Hunting Party with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified platinum by BVMI, gold by Music Canada, IFPI-AUT and IFPI-SWI, and silver by BPI)

$800,000

2012

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the remix album Recharged with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified gold by BVMI)

$211,000

2012

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the live album Living Things + with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified platinum by IFPI-SWI)

$30,000

2011

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the album Living Things with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified platinum by IFPI-SWI and SNEP, 3x gold by BVMI, gold by ARIA, BPI, IFPI-AUT and RMNZ)

$1,800,000

2010

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the live album A Thousand Suns+ with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified gold by IFPI-SWI)

$15,000

2009

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the album A Thousand Suns with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified platinum by ARIA and Music Canada, 3x gold by BVMI, and gold by RIAA, BPI, IFPI-AUT, IFPI-SWI, IRMA, RMNZ and SNEP)

$2,000,000

2007

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the live album Road to Revolution: Live at Milton Keynes with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified platinum by BVMI, gold by IFPI-SWI and RMNZ, and silver by BPI)

$712,500

2006

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the compilation album Transformers: The Album with various artists

$150,000

2006

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the album Minutes to Midnight with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified 3x platinum by ARIA, BVMI, 2x platinum by RIAA, IFPI-AUT, IFPI-SWI and RMNZ, platinum by BPI and SNEP)

$8,000,000

2004

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the album The Rising Tied with the hip hop ensemble Fort Minor

$700,000

2002

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the live album Meteora with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified platinum by RIAA and Music Canada, 3x gold by BVMI, gold by BPI, IFPI-AUT, IFPI-SWI, RMNZ and SNEP)

$2,013,000

2002

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the album Meteora with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified 4x platinum by RIAA, ARIA and Music Canada, 2x platinum by BPI, RMNZ and SNEP, platinum by IFPI-AUT and IFPI-SWI, and 7x gold by BVMI)

$9,170,000

2001

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the remix album Reanimation with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified platinum by RIAA, and gold by BPI, BVMI, IFPI-AUT and IFPI-SWI)

$2,345,000

1999

Record Sales

Estimated earnings from the album Hybrid Theory with the American rock band, Linkin Park (certified diamond by RIAA, 5x platinum by ARIA, BPI, Music Canada and RMNZ, platinum by IFPI-AUT, IFPI-SWI and SNEP and 5x gold by BVMI)

$27,000,000