How Much Are They Worth?
Celebrity fortunes, explained
How did Krewella build this fortune?
The answer unfolds through the career, earnings, deals and assets behind the headline estimate.
Before the fame
The background and early turning points that shaped Krewella’s route to prominence.
Krewella is an American electronic dance music duo made up of sisters Jahan Yousaf, born August 27, 1989, in Houston, Texas, and Yasmine Yousaf, born February 18, 1992, who were raised together in Northbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, to a Pakistani father and a mother of German and Lithuanian descent, according to Wikipedia’s Krewella entry. The group was formed in 2007 as a trio, originally including producer Kristopher Trindl alongside the two sisters, and all three original members got matching “6.8.10” tattoos marking June 8, 2010, the date they have said they committed fully to the band, per Wikipedia. The sisters have spoken openly about growing up between cultures and faiths, and that mixed Pakistani, Muslim and Eastern European background has become a recurring thread in how they present themselves publicly, as described in Muslim Girl’s profile of the duo.
Krewella began posting original music on Myspace in 2009 and released their first official singles, “Life of the Party” (featuring S-Preme) and “Strobelights,” on July 11, 2011, according to Wikipedia’s career timeline. Their song “Alive” first appeared on June 18, 2012, as the third single from the self-released EP Play Hard, which went on to peak at number six on Billboard’s Top Dance Albums chart, per Wikipedia’s chart history for “Alive”. That early momentum was strong enough that by August 2013 the trio was already headlining major festival sets, including Ultra Music Festival, Electric Daisy Carnival and Stereosonic, per Wikipedia’s summary of the group’s early festival history.
The breakthrough years
The career decisions and defining moments that turned recognition into sustained earning power.
Krewella’s real breakthrough came in 2012, when the group won the International Dance Music Award for Best Breakthrough Artist, and in February 2013 “Alive” was re-released to mainstream radio through Columbia Records, pushing it to number one on Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart and number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100, according to Wikipedia’s entry on the song. The single went on to sell more than a million copies and was certified Platinum by the RIAA, the group’s first and, to date, only such certification. Their debut studio album, Get Wet, followed on September 24, 2013, selling roughly 27,000 copies in its first week, topping Billboard’s Top Dance Albums chart and reaching number eight on the Billboard 200, per Wikipedia’s album chart summary.
What the work can earn
Reported pay, contracts, royalties and performance income reveal how the fortune was funded.
Beyond “Alive,” Krewella charted two further singles from Get Wet, “Live for the Night” and “Enjoy the Ride,” and the group has been ranked in DJ Mag’s annual Top 100 DJs poll multiple times, reaching number 44 in 2013 and appearing again in 2015 at number 81, per DJ Mag’s 2013 results page. The group has headlined main-stage sets at Ultra Music Festival, Electric Daisy Carnival and Tomorrowland and has appeared at Coachella and Lollapalooza across a touring career now spanning nearly two decades, with 14 shows listed as upcoming in a single recent stretch on their MN2S booking agency roster page. After a three-year break from releasing original music, the duo returned in June 2025 with “Crying on the Dancefloor” and has continued releasing new singles into 2026 ahead of a planned fourth studio album, according to House of Solo’s 2026 feature on the comeback.
Krewella’s profile extends beyond dance-music circles: in 2015 the group contributed to “Love Song to the Earth,” a multi-artist environmental awareness single that also featured Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow and Fergie among more than a dozen artists, and in 2018 Jahan and Yasmine appeared on Coke Studio Pakistan’s eleventh season, connecting them directly to their father’s home country, per Wikipedia’s overview of the group’s collaborations. The sisters have also been recognized for representing Muslim and South Asian women in a genre where that visibility is rare, a theme Muslim Girl’s feature frames as central to their public identity, alongside their standing as one of the earliest successful sister acts in mainstream EDM.
The business beyond the main career
Endorsements, ownership interests and investments can keep compounding long after the initial breakthrough.
Krewella’s most substantial documented brand partnership is with the fitness company Zumba, which enlisted the duo in 2017 to produce original music for its STRONG by Zumba workout program, including the track “I Got This,” and to headline a live “fitness concert” for Zumba instructors at UCLA, according to The Hype Magazine’s coverage of the event. The partnership also produced a second exclusive track, “Thrilla,” released first to Zumba’s international instructor network before a wider public release. No other major, ongoing consumer-brand endorsement deal is documented for the group in mainstream music-trade press.
After roughly five years signed to Columbia Records, Jahan and Yasmine left the major-label system and founded their own independent label, Mixed Kids Records, releasing the single “Team” in December 2016 and the EP New World Pt. 1 in June 2017 as their first releases under the new imprint, according to Wikipedia’s Krewella entry. Running their own label has given the sisters control over release timing and creative direction that they did not have as major-label artists, a shift they have described directly in interviews about their 2025 return to music, per House of Solo’s reporting on their independent operations. Mixed Kids Records remains their primary business vehicle outside of touring and recorded music.
Notable luxury item
A reported property or major asset offers a tangible glimpse of the wealth behind the public estimate.
No specific real estate purchases, addresses or property values for Jahan or Yasmine Yousaf are documented in mainstream property or entertainment press. What is confirmed is that the sisters are based in Los Angeles, where they write and record together, a detail confirmed in House of Solo’s 2026 profile describing their ongoing ties to the city’s music and creative community. In the absence of published property records, this estimate treats their recorded-music catalogue and their ownership of Mixed Kids Records as their primary documented assets rather than any specific real estate holding.
Krewella’s estimated net worth
Public estimates vary because private contracts, investments, taxes and liabilities are not fully disclosed.
How this estimate is calculated
Krewella’s income is built from several overlapping streams rather than any single windfall. Recorded music and streaming royalties anchor the group’s earnings, led by the RIAA Platinum single “Alive” and the Billboard top-ten album Get Wet, both of which have continued generating royalties well over a decade after release, per Wikipedia’s album entry. Touring and festival performance fees form a second major stream, drawn from headline slots at Ultra, EDC and Tomorrowland and continued festival bookings visible on their active MN2S booking roster, a circuit that typically pays established acts substantial per-show fees even though Krewella’s own rates are not publicly disclosed. Ownership of Mixed Kids Records adds a business-income layer beyond touring and royalties, since the sisters now control release timing and retain more of their recorded-music revenue than they did as major-label artists, and their 2025-2026 return to active releasing, per House of Solo’s reporting, suggests renewed touring and streaming income going forward. Against that gross income, standard industry deductions apply: agency and management commissions, production and touring costs, and taxes typically remove roughly half of gross entertainment earnings. Several low-detail aggregator sites publish net-worth figures for Krewella loosely in the $20 million to $30 million range, including one estimate from Wealtholino’s net-worth page; none of these figures disclose any methodology, so they are treated here only as a loose, secondary directional signal rather than sourced fact. No primary Forbes-style earnings breakdown specific to Krewella was located, so the range below is built from the group’s documented chart success, decade-plus touring history and label ownership rather than any single reported net-worth number.
Krewella’s clearest charitable effort came in early 2014, when the group partnered with the accessories brand Electric Family on a limited-edition bracelet benefiting Dance For Paralysis, a charity supporting spinal cord injury research and awareness, with the collaboration raising more than $17,000 for the cause, according to Your EDM’s coverage of the partnership. Beyond that campaign, the group’s public image centers on the sisters’ openness about their mixed Pakistani, Muslim and Eastern European heritage and their effort to broaden who is visible in mainstream EDM, a theme explored at length in Muslim Girl’s profile of the group.
The defining controversy in Krewella’s history is the 2014 split with founding member Kristopher Trindl, known professionally as Rain Man. In September 2014 Trindl filed a $5 million lawsuit against Jahan and Yasmine, alleging he had been unfairly forced out of the group and cut off from his share of future revenue after missing a flight to headline Electric Daisy Carnival Mexico earlier that year, according to TMZ’s original report on the lawsuit. The sisters countersued in November 2014, stating in court filings that Trindl had chosen to resign, that he had refused to learn to DJ for live shows, and that his alcohol use had led them to stage an intervention, claims covered in detail by Billboard’s report on the countersuit. The dispute became one of the most publicly discussed conflicts in EDM at the time and was settled out of court in August 2015 on undisclosed terms, after which Jahan and Yasmine continued as a duo.