Net Worth: $100,000
Venture: TCN
If you’re a veteran WCW fan, you’ll probably recognize Chad Brock from his old wrestling days in the mid-’90s. The wrestler was always a singer at heart and moved from Florida to Nashville to try and become a popular country singer. His wrestling career was quickly dispatched due to an injury that prevented him from wrestling. This was just the push he needed to return to music, as Brock went on to release several albums.
He released three albums which have seen moderate success. His strongest single to date was “Yes!” which reached first place on the country music charts. Since then, he has left the music scene to co-host a morning show in Tampa, Florida.
Darius Rucker
Net Worth: $14 million
Venture: MGC Sports
Darius Rucker is the lead singer of Hootie & the Blowfish and is one of those rare artists that managed to combine different music genres into a beautiful and unique mix, namely, country and R&B. Over the years the band has released five albums and managed to claim six top-40 hits on the Billboard charts. Rucker also has a solo musical career, and already released several Country-R&B songs that have garnered their own audience and fans.
In his business venture, Rucker is currently focused on sports marketing and is a partner at MGC Sports, which promotes talented athletes across many different sports and provides them with services ranging from marketing to public relations and management.
Mark Chesnutt
Net Worth: $7.1 million
Venture: Nada Dinero
The singer-songwriter debuted in 1990 after many years of wanting to take up a musical venture due to his passion for country music. Chesnutt was born in Beaumont, Texas, and drew his musical influence from his father, Bob Chesnutt, a popular singer and record producer. He played music from a very young age and dropped out of school to focus on performing, before being taken to Nashville by his father to begin his recording ventures.
By the late '80s, Chestnut released eight singles that were stitched together into his debut album, "Doing My Country Thing". The album was well-received, as were his following three albums which have all managed to attain Platinum status.
Sawyer Brown
Net Worth: $9 million
Venture: Beach Street Records
If you've heard of the popular country singer Don King who ruled the '70s and '80s with more than fifteen hit singles on the Billboard charts, you probably remember that he had a band of musicians that toured with him across the US. When the popular singer retired, those musicians chose to stick together and in 1981 they formed Sawyer Brown, the popular country-pop band that was founded by Mark Miller, Gregg "Hobie" Hubbard, Bobby Randall, Joe "Curly" Smyth, and Jim Scholten.
The band’s country, rock and pop musical style was an instant hit. The band went on to release eighteen studio albums and had over fifty songs appear on the Hot Country Songs charts. Their most successful songs to date are "Step That Step," "Some Girls Do," and "Thank God For You".
Kip Moore
Net Worth: $4 million
Venture: Slowheart
Many fans of the hip Kip Moore don’t know that the singer never really set out to develop a musical career, and to some extent, stumbled into it. When he was younger, Moore would travel as a backpacking nomad and spend most of his time after college surfing in Hawaii while living in his tiny Hut. In 2004, after what we imagine were some really great days of tanning and working on his beach bod, Moore decided to try his luck at singing and moved to Nashville, where he met the successful producer Brett James, who helped him get a label deal with MCA Nashville.
Moore would go on to receive critical and commercial acclaim for his first album, “Up All Night,” which was the best-selling first album of any male country star for both 2012 and 2013, and achieved platinum status by the RIAA shortly after its release.