Hugo Pierre Leclercq was born on May 30, 1994, in Nantes, France. According to his Wikipedia biography, he began composing music at just 11 years old, initially releasing material under the aliases “Deamon” and “Wayne Mont” before adopting the stage name Madeon in 2010 — an anagram of his earlier “Deamon” moniker. That same year, still a teenager working from his family home in Nantes, he won a remix competition for the Australian drum and bass act Pendulum’s song “The Island,” an early signal of the self-taught production skill that would soon make him famous. He has cited Daft Punk and the Beatles as his two greatest musical influences.

Madeon’s breakthrough came on July 11, 2011, when he uploaded a YouTube video titled “Pop Culture” — a live, real-time mashup of 39 popular songs performed on a Novation Launchpad and mixed in FL Studio. By his own account, he bought the Launchpad, built the mashup and filmed the video all in a single day, then left on a week-long vacation; he returned to find the clip had racked up millions of views and a request to tour Australia. The video eventually surpassed 60 million views and turned the then-17-year-old bedroom producer into an in-demand act almost overnight. He followed it up with his debut single, “Icarus,” released February 24, 2012, through his own small label Popcultur; the track entered the UK Singles Chart at number 22. The attention from “Pop Culture” and “Icarus” drew interest from multiple major labels, and Madeon ultimately signed with Columbia Records.

Madeon released his debut studio album, Adventure, on March 30, 2015, through Columbia Records, featuring vocalists including Kyan, Dan Smith of Bastille, Passion Pit, Mark Foster of Foster the People, and Aquilo. Per Billboard, the album sold 11,000 copies in its opening week and debuted at number one on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart, and he supported it with a 22-stop North American tour followed by the 2016 Pixel Empire Tour. That same year, his collaboration with fellow producer Porter Robinson, “Shelter,” became one of his most celebrated releases: the song’s music video was an anime short co-produced with Crunchyroll and animation studio A-1 Pictures, and the pair followed it with the Shelter Live Tour, running from September 2016 to April 2017 across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

His second album, Good Faith, arrived on November 15, 2019, again through Columbia Records, and per Billboard’s chart coverage debuted at number one on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart while reaching number 82 on the all-genre Billboard 200. The album earned Madeon his first Grammy nomination, for Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 2021 ceremony, where he lost to Kaytranada’s Bubba alongside fellow nominees Arca, Baauer and Disclosure, according to Grammy.com’s coverage of the ceremony. He supported the album with the Good Faith Forever tour, which ran across multiple legs from September 2021 through November 2023 before closing with finale shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre and the Shrine Auditorium. Beyond his own catalogue, Madeon has contributed songwriting and production work to other artists, most notably co-writing and producing three tracks — “Venus,” “Gypsy” and “Mary Jane Holland” — on Lady Gaga’s 2013 album Artpop, and later co-writing and producing “911” on her 2020 album Chromatica. His third studio album, Victory, followed on June 26, 2026, through Mom + Pop Music — his first full-length in seven years — featuring Slayyyter, Sam Gellaitry and Erick The Architect, and described by Madeon in a Billboard interview as a punk- and electro-clash-influenced departure written in the aftermath of a breakup.

Unlike touring-fee-driven mainstream DJs such as David Guetta, Martin Garrix or Diplo, Madeon has never appeared on Forbes’ “World’s Highest-Paid DJs” list, and no trade outlet — Billboard, DJ Mag or Pollstar included — has published an audited annual income figure for him. His touring history, including the 22-stop Adventure Live run, the Shelter Live Tour, the multi-year Good Faith Forever tour and the 31-city Victory Live Tour announced for September through November 2026, has played out largely at theater, amphitheater and mid-size festival-stage level rather than arenas, and no publisher has aggregated a full-tour or annual gross for any of these runs.

That absence of a Forbes or Pollstar Boxoffice career total places Madeon in a similar tier to catalogue-and-royalty-driven peers rather than the handful of touring DJs whose festival and residency fees regularly clear eight figures a year. What sets his income mix apart is a second, less visible revenue stream: songwriting and production royalties from his contributions to Lady Gaga’s Artpop and Chromatica, both major-label releases with substantial catalogue income of their own, on top of his own three albums’ worth of streaming, sync and physical-sales royalties dating back to 2015.

Madeon’s recording history runs through three label relationships: his own small label Popcultur released his breakout 2012 single “Icarus,” Columbia Records released both Adventure (2015) and Good Faith (2019), and his third album, Victory (2026), came out through the independent label Mom + Pop Music — the same label behind Porter Robinson’s more recent releases. As is standard across the recorded-music industry, the financial terms of these deals — advances, royalty splits or catalogue ownership — have not been publicly disclosed.

For live bookings, the agency SpeakerBookingAgency lists Madeon among its represented talent but currently shows him “unavailable for booking” with no fee estimate published. No verified festival appearance fee — including for his 2026 Coachella set — and no disclosed touring guarantee for the Victory Live Tour has been published by a credible outlet, so none is estimated here.

A search of music trade press, marketing announcements and entertainment coverage turned up no conventional brand endorsement or sponsorship deal for Madeon — nothing resembling the apparel, headphone, spirits or tech partnerships some touring DJs have signed. His commercial activity outside recorded music and touring appears limited to merchandise sold through his own official webstore, madeon.store, and third-party retailers like Merchbar, which is direct-to-fan retail rather than a third-party endorsement arrangement.

Madeon’s clearest commercial venture is Popcultur, the small independent label he used to self-release his breakout 2012 single “Icarus” before signing to Columbia Records; it functioned as a release vehicle for his own early work rather than a roster label signing other artists, and it has not been active as his primary label since the Columbia deal. Beyond that early label and his own merchandise line, no equity stakes, outside company investments or other business holdings for Madeon turned up in credible reporting, so none are listed here.

Madeon is based in Los Angeles. A 2019 DJ Mag long-read profile details a Hollywood Hills home he was in the process of purchasing at the time — a steeply built, multi-level property above the 101 Freeway with views toward Universal Studios, which the piece describes as “the latest addition” to his real estate portfolio. He had already been using the space as his home studio and creative base since early 2018, working there through the writing and production of Good Faith. No subsequent property purchase, sale or specific address tied to Madeon has been documented in real estate trade press, and no other high-value personal assets — vehicles, aircraft or otherwise — have been reliably reported, so none are estimated here beyond the Hollywood Hills property.