Chris Martin Net Worth

Chris Martin Net Worth, Age, Biography, and Personal Life

Chris Martin Introduction

Chris Martin is an English Musician and songwriter, the co-founder of the band Coldplay, one of the most influential and legendary bands of the 21st century. 

Having grown up in a cozy yet strictly religious and political atmosphere, he had grown up to be one of the greatest songwriters of all time.

Chris Martin Net Worth & Salary

Chris Martin’s net worth is $130M. His annual income is $8.5M which he receives by selling copies of his latest albums. He doesn’t restrict himself from performing with Coldplay only.

He had a couple of solo ventures and collaborations with different artists that helped him to add some chunk of money to his fortune. Chris Martin often appears in cameo roles in movies and reality shows for promotional activities etc.

Chris Martin  Age, Early Life & Biography

Chris Martin’s Age is 45 years old. He was born and brought up in Exeter, a small city situated in Devon, England. He was the oldest child among five siblings and grew up with values of responsibility and love ingrained in him. 

His father was an accountant and his mother worked as a music teacher. He used to listen to his mother while she played music and from there his foundation for music formed. While studying at Exeter Cathedral School, he formed his band which was not approved by his peers and he received a lot of jeers and disappointments.

But that didn’t waver him to quit music and made him more determined to make more music. While attending Sherborne School in Dorset, he met up with Phil Harvey, who will manage the Coldplay band they formed together in the future.

Martin attended University College London for Ancient World Studies and graduated with first-class grades in Latin and Greek. UCL served as the meeting place for the future bandmates of Coldplay. All of them belonged to different majors but were unified by the love of forming music.

Chris Martin Net Worth
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Name:Christopher Anthony John Martin
Gender:Male
Age:45 years old
Birth Date:March 2, 1977
Birth Place:Exeter, England
Nationality:British
Height:1.86m
Sexual Orientation:Straight
Marital Status:Divorced
Wife/Spouse (Name):Gwyneth Paltrow 
Children/Kids (Son and Daughter):Apple (Daughter), Moses(Son)
Dating/Girlfriend (Name):Dakota Johnson
Profession:Band owner, Musician, and Songwriter
Yearly Income:$8.5M
Net Worth in 2022$130M
Content Last Updated:December 2022

Chris Martin  Personal Life

Chris Martin was born to Anthony and Alison Martin. Their family of 7 lived on their parents’ monthly pay cheque. His grandfather John Besley Martin, Mayor of Exter in 1968 established a caravan and motorbike retail business which was sold by their father in 1999.

Martin had been in a relationship with Lily Sobhani during the debut song of Parachute. He later met Gwyneth Paltrow, a few weeks after her father’s funeral and wrote a song for her about moving forward from the impact of her father’s passing away. 

Paltrow and Martin developed a close bond soon after and tied the knot in 2003. They were blessed with a daughter named Apple in 2004 and a son named Moses in 2006. They ended their 13-year-long marriage in 2016 due to a change in their relationship dynamics. 

Since 2017, he has been in a long-term relationship with Dakota Johnson.

Chris Martin Career

Jonny Buckland and Chris Martin formed a band called Starfish while at college and eventually Guy Berryman and Will Champion joined in as bass and drummer. With the release of their debut album Parachutes in 2000, the band managed to achieve fame and love from audiences on a global scale.

The Parachute album had made a name for themselves in the U.S., U.K., and Australia and with their debut success, they focused on creating another masterpiece A Rush of Blood to Head which was a critical success and won many domestic as well as international accolades.

Despite being a part of Coldplay, he has made some solo songs like Embrace, Jamelia, etc. He has collaborated with artists like DJ Avicii, Dua Lipa, Ian McCulloch, Faultline, and Jay-Z. He had co-written lyrics with them, played the piano in a few albums for Avicii’s videos, and provided his own vocals for the chorus part in ‘Homecoming’ singles of Kayne West’s album ‘Graduation’ in 2007.

In most of the collaborations, he voiced a few songs, provided vocals, played piano, or wrote the lyrics for the tracks.

Chris Martin  Awards & Achievements

Coldplay has received seven Grammy’s and three Juno Awards to date. They were ranked as one of the Top 100 Greatest Artists of All Time by Rolling Stone. 

A song from Coldplay’s 2009 album ‘Viva La Vida or Death and All of His Friends’ won the Ivor Novello Award for ‘Best Selling British Song’ in 2009. They won the same award again for the song ‘Hymn for the Weekend’ in 2017.

Chris Martin  Major Investments and Assets

Chris Martin is ambidextrous and this fact is known to a few people. He had one house in Malibu for around $14M with Paltrow in 2014. He owns a lot of houses in prominent locations like Malibu, California, and other places. 

Besides owning real estate and being a multimillionaire, he is active in philanthropic activities like fundraising events. He performed three songs with Michael Stipe for Hurricane Sandy relief in 2012. He helped to raise funds for the Ebola crisis in Africa by collaborating with the Band-Aid 30 in 2004 and 2014

Chris Martin  Must Watch Latest Video and Trending Photographs

Chris Martin talks about their new album upcoming this year, collaboration with BTS, and trying to make the shows more eco-friendly. 

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