Shawn Peter Raul Mendes was born on the 8th August 1998, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a singer and songwriter. Despite his young age he quickly rose to fame thanks to his single “Life of the Party” (2014). Signed to the record label Island Records he successfully continues his career. Shawn Mendes has been accumulating his net worth in the entertainment industry since 2013.
How much is the net worth of Shawn Mendes? It has been reported that the outright size of his wealth is as much as $2 million. Thus, he entered the list of the teenagers – millionaires.
Shawn Mendes Net Worth $2 Million
To begin with, Shawn Mendes spent his childhood in Pickering, Toronto. In 2013, he began posting short videos on Vine social application, which gathered millions of views and many fans in the first month. Shawn soon became much more widely known through the clips he published on YouTube and Vine. In January 2014, the manager Andrew Gertler discovered the talented Shawn Mendes online, and a few months later, Shawn sang for Island Records and released his first hit – “Life of the Party” – in June 2014. The single became platinum in the USA, Canada and Sweden, and gold in New Zealand and Norway. It also entered the top music charts in many countries including the USA, UK, Canada, Ireland among others, the youngest ever artist to enter the Billboard Top 100 inside the top 25 with their debut release. This was the real start of his net worth rising, and he was still under 16 years of age..
Shawn toured in North America with “Live on Tour” in 2014, which also increased his net worth as well as his popularity. His first album, “The Shawn Mendes EP” was released later in 2014, and he subsequently won the Teen Choice Award in that year for Best Web Featured music.
On 3rd November 2014 Shawn Mendes announced on his Twitter account that he was to be part of the “The 1989” world tour with Taylor Swift in 2015. On 19th January, 2015, the young singer announced his first international solo tour in collaboration with MTV News. It played large European cities like Stockholm, Berlin, London and Paris and will complete its schedule in the USA. The same year, his first studio album “Handwritten” (2015) was released; it topped the music charts in Canada, Norway and the USA, selling 106,000 copies during the first week, and Mendes became the second youngest artist after Justin Bieber to top the Billboard Top 200. His net worth was rising steadily.
In 2015, Mendes was nominated for a number of awards, winning the Juno Award as the Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Shorty Award as Vine Musician, Much Music Video Award for the Fan Fave Video, Teen Choice, Streamy and MTV Europe Music Awards as the Best New Artist. All the nominations, awards, and high places on the music charts of his releases prove that Shawn Mendes is a really promising young artist, whose net worth is sure to continue rising.
Finally, in the personal life of Shawn Mendes, it has been rumoured that the boy is gay and his partner is the actor Cameron Dallas. Later, rumours were flying that he was dating Lauren Giraldo, Bethany Mota, Taylor Swift and Camila Cabello although 17 year-old Mendes insists that he is single.
