Monica Net Worth 2024

What is Monica net worth?

Monica net worth: Monica Denise Arnold is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, actress, and businesswoman. she is recognized as one of the most successful urban R&B female vocalists to begin a career in the mid to late 1990s. Keep reading to find more.

What is Monica net worth?

Monica net worth is $15 million

Monica Early life

Monica is the only daughter of Marilyn Best, a Delta Air Lines customer service representative and former church singer of African American descent, and M.C. “Billy” Arnold Jr, who is African American with Indian and Irish ancestry and was a mechanic for an Atlanta freight company.

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 She has a younger brother, Montez (born in 1983), and a half brother, Jermond Grant, on her father’s side. Monica also is a cousin of record producer Polow da Don, and is related to rapper Ludacris through her mother’s second marriage to Reverend Edward Best, a Methodist minister. She attended North Clayton High School with rapper 2 Chainz.

Monica Career

At the age of 2, Monica followed in her mother’s footsteps with regular performances at the Jones Hill Chapel United Methodist Church in Marilyn’s hometown Newnan, Georgia. 

While growing up in the modest circumstances of a single-parent home after her parents’ 1984 separation and 1987 divorce, Monica continued training herself in singing and became a frequent talent-show contestant, winning over 20 local singing competitions throughout her early teenage years. 

When she was 10 years old, she became the youngest member of “Charles Thompson and the Majestics”, a traveling 12-person gospel choir.

In 1991, at the age of eleven, Monica was discovered by music producer Dallas Austin at the Center Stage auditorium in Atlanta performing Whitney Houston 1986’s “Greatest Love of All”. Amazed by her voice, Dallas offered her a record deal with his Arista Records-distributed label Rowdy Records and consulted rapper Queen Latifah to work as Monica’s first manager.

Shortly afterwards Dallas and then staff producers Tim & Bob entered the studio with Monica to start writing and producing her debut Miss Thang, which was eventually released in July 1995 and reached number thirty-six on the U.S. Billboard 200 and number seven on the Top R&B Albums chart.

 It was certified triple platinum by the RIAA for more than three million store-shipped copies and produced three top ten singles, including debut single “Don’t Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)” and “Before You Walk Out of My Life”, which made Monica the youngest artist ever to have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the U.S. BillboardHot R&B Singles chart.

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Miss Thang subsequently won Monica a Billboard Music Award and garnered her an American Music Award nomination in the Favorite Soul/R&B New Artist category.

In 2000, Monica made her film debut in the third drama from MTV Films, Love Song, as Camille Livingston, a young woman torn between the life her parents have planned for her and the world she experiences after meeting a musician from the wrong side of the tracks

Towards the end of 2006, Monica released her next studio album The Makings of Me. Titled after Curtis Mayfield’s recording “The Makings of You”, it saw her particularly reuniting with producers Elliott, Dupri, and Bryan Michael Cox; they had previously contributed to After the Storm.

In 2011, Monica joined the debut season of the reality talent show The Voice as an adviser to musician coach Cee Lo Green. In April 2012, her seventh studio album, New Life, was released.

Monica has sold 5.3 million albums in the United States and she is recognized as one of the most successful urban R&B female vocalists to begin a career in the mid to late 1990s.

According to Billboard, she is the youngest recording act to ever have two consecutive chart-topping hits on the Billboard Top R&B Singles chart, as well as the first artist to top the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart over the span of three consecutive decades (1990s, 2000s, and 2010s).

A four-time nominee, she won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for her contribution to “The Boy Is Mine” alongside Brandy, at the 41st awards ceremony and has been the recipient of one Billboard Music Award, one BET Award, and two BMI Pop Awards.

Personal life

Monica’s career slowed down in 1999 due to having problems in her relationship with ex-boyfriend Jarvis Weems. In July 2000, the couple were together at the gravesite of Weems’s brother, who had died in an automobile accident at age 25 in 1998.

Monica met rapper Rodney “Rocko” Hill, a former SWA officer and real estate manager, shortly after Weems’s suicide, a time which she described as her “weakest”. While the couple soon began dating in the fall of the same year, they ended their relationship in 2004. The pair parted ways in early 2010

In June 2010, Monica met NBA player Shannon Brown while she was looking for someone to play the love interest in her video for the song “Love All Over Me”. She announced her engagement to Brown via her Twitter account, posting a photo of a rose-cut diamond ring.

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 On November 22, 2010, the couple married in a secret ceremony at their Los Angeles home.

As of October 2019, their divorce was finalized

Monica net worth is $15 million

Discography

• Miss Thang (1995)
• The Boy Is Mine (1998)
• All Eyez on Me (2002)
• After the Storm (2003)
• The Makings of Me (2006)
• Still Standing (2010)
• New Life (2012)
• Code Red (2015)