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Peter Lawrence Buck is an American musician and songwriter with a net worth of $50 million. He is famous as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.
From his career with R.E.M. to his subsequent solo career from 1980 to 2011, he has been an official member of lots of side project groups. The groups are Filthy Friends, Tired Pony, Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3, The Baseball Project, Tuatara, The Minus 5, ad Hindu Love Gods. All of these groups have at least one full-length album. Aside from this, there is another side project group called the Full-Time Men. It released an EP while Buck was still a member. That also happened with his current project with The No-Ones. There are also ad hoc supergroups like Nigel & The Crosses and Bingo Hand Job. Each of them commercially released one track.
Buck has other notable groups that have not recorded. They are Richard M. Nixon and Slow Music. These groups play semi-regular gigs. Buck founded a band in 2012, so he can get support for the release of his live concerts and solo album. The members of Richard M. Nixon are Bill Rieflin and Scott McCaughey. They are the same three musicians that are members of The Venus 3.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2016 |
Earning Turned Donation |
Donation to the Palapa Society |
$40,000 |
|
2015 |
Sale of Asset |
Selling price of his Kauai home |
$6,200,000 |
|
2011 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011 with the band R.E.M. (approximately 137.5 thousand copies sold) |
$178,750 |
|
2008 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Accelerate with the band R.E.M. (approximately 292.5 thousand copies sold) |
$380,250 |
|
2007 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album R.E.M. Live with the band R.E.M. (approximately 100 thousand copies sold) |
$130,000 |
|
2004 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Around the Sun with the band R.E.M. (approximately 1.35 million copies sold) |
$1,760,000 |
|
2004 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the video album Perfect Square with the band R.E.M. (approximately 100 thousand copies sold) |
$130,000 |
|
2003 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 with the band R.E.M. (approximately 200 thousand copies sold) |
$260,000 |
|
2001 |
Lawsuit Settlement |
Payment for assault charges stemming from an alleged air-rage incident during a flight to Britain |
$28,000 |
|
2001 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Reveal with the band R.E.M. (approximately 1,212,500 copies sold) |
$1,580,000 |
|
1998 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Up with the band R.E.M. (approximately 1,349,800 copies sold) |
$1,000,000 |
|
1996 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the video album Road Movie with the band R.E.M. (approximately 150 thousand copies sold) |
$195,000 |
|
1996 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album New Adventures in Hi-Fi with the band R.E.M. (approximately 1.984 million copies sold) |
$2,580,000 |
|
1995 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the video album Parallel with the band R.E.M. (approximately 100 thousand copies sold) |
$130,000 |
|
1994 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album R.E.M.: Singles Collected with the band R.E.M. (approximately 60 thousand copies sold) |
$78,000 |
|
1994 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Monster with the band R.E.M. (approximately 6.6 million copies sold) |
$8,580,000 |
|
1992 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Automatic for the People with the band R.E.M. (approximately 9,225,700 copies sold) |
$11,990,000 |
|
1991 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album The Best of R.E.M. with the band R.E.M. (approximately 242.5 thousand copies sold) |
$315,250 |
|
1991 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the video album This Film Is On with the band R.E.M. (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |
|
1991 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Out of Time with the band R.E.M. (approximately 9,275,300 copies sold) |
$12,060,000 |
|
1990 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the video album Tourfilm with the band R.E.M. (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |
|
1990 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the video album Pop Screen with the band R.E.M. (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |
|
1988 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Green with the band R.E.M. (approximately 2.46 million copies sold) |
$3,198,000 |
|
1987 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Document with the band R.E.M. (approximately 1.1 million copies sold) |
$1,430,000 |
|
1986 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Lifes Rich Pageant with the band R.E.M. (approximately 580 thousand copies sold) |
$754,000 |
|
1985 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Fables of the Reconstruction with the band R.E.M. (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |
|
1984 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Reckoning with the band R.E.M. (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |
|
1983 |
Record Sales |
Record sales of the album Murmur with the band R.E.M. (approximately 500 thousand copies sold) |
$650,000 |