What is Rapper Drake is Web Worthy of in 2013?

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With over 5 million album gross sales, 12 Number one Singles, and several major awards including a Grammy for "Best Rap Album of 2013," Drake musical success has authorized himself to amass good ?Music wealth at a younger age. Drake features a latest approximated net truly worth $30 million. Drake has earned almost all of his income from album profits and touring. His "Club Paradise Tour" was one of the most productive Hip-Hop tour of 2012, netting $42 million past calendar year using a documented gross of $500,000 per evening.

While Drake utilized to be known for his acting purpose as Jimmy Brooks around the hit Canadian Television set Exhibit "Degrassi: The following Technology," he caught the eye of leading Hip-Hop artists like Lil' Wayne, Kanye West & Jay-Z (whom Drake stated are his biggest influences). Drake achieved accomplishment before he was signed to a major label, however, when he released the "Best I Ever Had" track (produced by Kanye West) that entered the prime ten position at selection 3, along with the Young Money track "Every Girl" featuring Drake at selection 10, simultaneously. Drake then went on to sign to Lil' Wayne's music label "Young Money" for $1 million, plus another $1 million cash as a signing bonus. This followed what Billboard calls "one of the biggest bidding wars ever."

While signed to Young Money records, Drake released two studio albums titled Thank Me Later (2010) & Take Care (2011). Thank Me Later was Drake's first studio album which was later certified Platinum, debuting at number 1 around the Billboard 200. The album featured the hit singles "Over" and "Find Your Love". Take Care was Drake's second studio album, and most profitable album to date, which also debuted at the primary position on the Billboard 200. The album sold more than 630,000 albums in its first week (despite it already being leaked to the internet). Take Care topped the charts and produced multiple strike singles such as "Headlines", "Take Care", "Make Me Proud", "Crew Love", and "The Motto" which is also credited for popularizing the widely used acronym YOLO (You Only Live Once).

Drake is currently working on his third studio album titled Nothing Was The Same which is set to release in Summer 2013. It is stated by Drake that the album will have a different style than that of Take Care. Drake has released two hugely thriving singles from Nothing Was The Same titled "Started From The Bottom" and "5AM in Toronto" which both hint in a more aggressive Drake.