Robert Plant Net Worth 2024

January 29, 2020

What Is Robert Plant’s Net Worth?

Robert Plant Net Worth: Robert Plant is an English singer, lyricist, and musician. The 7 Grammy award-winner is popularly known for playing the Led Zeppelin rock band, and have drafted himself into music’s most influential people of all time.

Today, Robert Plant’s net worth is estimated to be close to $170 million dollars.

Robert Plant Net Worth:

$170 million

Net Worth:	$170 Million
Real Name:	Robert Anthony Plant
Date of Birth:	20 August 1948
Age, How Old:	72 Years Old
Nationality:	English
Place of Birth:	West Bromwich, United Kingdom
How Tall, Height:	6ft 1in (1.86 m)
Profession:	Singer-Songwriter, Lyricist
Last Updated:	2020

Robert Plant’s $170 million dollar net worth is because of his effective profession with band Led Zeppelin. He as accomplished a gigantic measure of success in his solo career as well.

The artist lives a lavish lifestyle including a multi-million dollar house and extravagant classic cars in his basement.

If this isn’t a rumor then one of his cars, the $1.8 million 1965 Aston Martin DB5 was available to be purchased upon request in late 2017.

In spite of being over 70 years of his life now, he still continues to keep visiting the globe with his band, ‘The Sensational Space Shifters,’ he still has the ability to pack concerts with his presence.

This is why two of his companies – ‘Trolcharm’ and ‘Sons of Einion’ (labels) are doing pleasantly good with consolidated resources drawing to over $37 million.

In 2014, gossip spread across the music industry reporting that Robert Plant tore up and denied an $800 million agreement for the reunion of the band Led Zeppelin. At that point maybe Plant simply doesn’t see the point for a get-together.

The agreement by Virgin owner Richard Branson offered lead members, him and Jimmy Page £190 million each for 35 dates in three urban areas. (Some Records reveal that Plant denied the rumors of turning down $800 million reunion tour)

Led Zeppelin had an extraordinary career and has exceeded in selling more than 300 million albums worldwide. Each one of those long periods of tour has satisfied each member of the band financially.

Robert Plant enjoyed his spectacular career in Led Zeppelin, he had also been voted the ‘best lead singer of all time’ by Rolling Stone in 2011.

But Plant didn’t limit himself just to the band, he has additionally had a staggeringly fruitful profession outside of Zeppelin.

His solo career has discharged fourteen album collections which have additionally made extra millions topping his net worth. In 1995, the best-selling music band was accepted into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.’

Led Zeppelin Perform at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (Live Concert)

In the mid-1970s, the band was at the pinnacle of success, Peter Grant being Led Zeppelin’s financial manager brought every dollar that the band deserved, you should watch the incredible Led Zeppelin concert film, ‘The Song Remains the Same.’

At that point, the band made more than $1.5 million for a single night packing more than 50,000 fans for each show and breaking records set by the 60’s band ‘The Beatles.’

Well, the band continued to sell and make millions even after the last album collection ‘Coda‘ which was released in 1982.

Robert Plant has been likewise named the ‘Commander of the Order’ of the British Empire, he has also donated some amount from his fortune for creation of the bronze statue of Owain Glyndŵr at Pennal Church in Wales (the Welsh Prince).

Now you can imagine how huge the financial history was for the band, and Robert Plant’s net worth alone is $170 million after serving 50 years for the music industry.

Who Is Robert Plant?

Robert Plant was born to mother Annie Celia Plant and civil engineer father Robert C. Plant on 20th August 1948, in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England.

His educated father served in the Royal Air Force during World War II.

Robert experienced childhood growing up in the town of Kidderminster, Worcestershire with his younger sister Allison. He started pursuing his musical aspirations following legends like Elvis Presley from the get-go.

In his teens, Plant experienced his passion for blues and became an avid follower of American musicians Willie Dixon and Robert Johnson.

In the wake of leaving King Edward VI Grammar School for Boys in Stourbridge, he picked to be selected at a college to seek after more GCE passes.

Robert Plant’s house 40 years ago – where he lived

To experience his passion for blues, Robert turned into participating in several bands in his 16’s.

Robert had also taken up several regular jobs including working as a construction worker at British based company ‘Wimpey’ and retail company ‘Woolworths’ as well.

While he was seeking to be a performer, he performed for the bands ‘Crawling King Snakes’ and ‘Band of Joy’ from England.

Early Life & Career

In 1968, Robert Plant was auditioned by Jimmy Page for a lead singer of his band ‘The Yardbirds.’ He was initially referred by Terry Reid for the band and the hunt for Page successfully ended.

Soon Bonham joined the band, a drummer that Plant has previously worked with and Page brought his acquaintance John Paul Jones who filled in the band as well.

The group soon formed the name ‘The New Yardbirds’ and began taking a shot at their first album collection.

The band started touring in Scandinavian countries but they got a ‘stop instant letter’ from one of the past individuals from ‘The Yardbirds.’

The group decided to rename themselves and they finally settled for ‘Led Zeppelin.’

Led Zeppelin Live Performance – greatest rock band of all time

On January 12, 1969, all the four band members saw the release their first self-titled album ‘Led Zeppelin’ and successfully set their foot in the music industry particularly know for rock & roll and blues.

The band’s first financially fruitful album managed to gain a good name and followers for Zeppelin. In 2004, the collection was drafted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

On 22 October, the band’s second album ‘Led Zeppelin II’ was discharged in the US market. The album won more positive audits with more adaptable and mature sounding tracks and was referred to as their heaviest collection.

The album ‘Led Zeppelin II’ created an enormous business topping charts in the UK & US segments. After such a commercially hit album Plant began to contribute as a lyricist as well.

Led Zeppelin II became a Grammy-nominated album and outperformed sales up to 12 million in figures, and on November 15, 1999, it got its initial confirmation as 12× Platinum certification from the RIAA.

The band’s third album collection, ‘Led Zeppelin III’ followed it’s release on October 5, 1970, and thereafter the following albums were released through the 1970s…

untitled album (1971),
‘Houses of the Holy’ (1973)
‘Physical Graffiti’ (1975)
‘Presence’ (1976)
‘In Through the Out Door’ (1979).

Led Zeppelin released their final collection in 1982, ‘Coda‘, the album included the unused melodies from different sessions of their 12-year presence.

In 1980, the group had actually disbanded before the release of this album, it was due to the death of the drummer ‘Bonham’ on September 25, 1980.

Robert Plant has altogether discharged 11 studio albums in his solo career, he discovered achievement as a solo artist too. Here is the rundown of his 11 collections…

1982 — ‘Pictures at Eleven’,
1983 — ‘The Principle of Moments’,
1985 — ‘Shaken ‘n’ Stirred’,
1988 — ‘Now and Zen’,
1990 — ‘Manic Nirvana’,
1993 — ‘Fate of Nations’,
2002 — ‘Dreamland’,
2005 — ‘Mighty ReArranger’,
2010 — ‘Band of Joy’,
2014 — ‘Lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar’,
2017 — ‘Carry Fire’.

In 1994, Plant and Page stayed deep rooted companions by discharged the live album collection ‘No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant’, the following year they went on a greatly fruitful tour visit to promote the album.

Later the duo planned to end on their joint effort due to their unsuccessful album ‘Walking into Clarksdale’ which they managed to put out together in 1998.

Plant returned to performing solo and has been a part of various groups since then, some of them are listed below…

1999 to 2000 — Priory of Brian,
2001 to 2007 — Strange Sensation,
2010 to 2011 — Band of Joy.
Since 2012 — Sensational Space Shifters.

Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters

Personal Life

In 1966, Robert Plant meets his first spouse, Maureen Wilson, while he was yet battling as a performer, the couple wedded two years after on November 9, 1968.

The couple welcomed three children into their family; Carmen Jane (b. 1968), Karac Pendragon (b. 1972), and Logan Romero (b. 1979).

What happened to Robert plants son?

On June 26, 1977, Plant was absolutely devastated when his son, ‘Karac,’ died from a stomach virus, while Plant was touring with Led Zeppelin in the US regions.

After the incident, for a while Plant even considered dropping-out of Led Zeppelin.

Plant’s first fruitful marriage with Maureen finally ended when the couple decided to separate and divorced in August 1983. Later he got romantically involved with Maureen’s sister, Shirley, and brought forth another son, Jesse Lee, in 1991.

Plant’s dating life also involves Canadian artist Alannah Myles and later American singer-songwriter, ‘Patty Griffin’, he eventually left Shirley for Myles.

Robert Plant Facts

Robert Plant started preparing to become a chartered accountant on his father’s wish but quit following only two weeks of studies.

Robert Plant was the third person to be approached by Jimmy Page for Led Zeppelin, before that he initially considered Terry Reid and Steve Marriot as a lead for the band.

Robert Plant won the ‘Beard Liberation Front’ honor in 2007, the award was for the beard of the year grant.

Robert Plant has been an avid lover of Elvis Presley. Since Led Zeppelin’s success, Elvis Presley became quite friendly with Robert Plant and the band, they used to hang out together on numerous occasions, and Elvis Presley once teased Plant for not owning the bands own plane.