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What Is Win Butler’s Net Worth?

Win Butler, the American-Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician, has a net worth of $8 million. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Arcade Fire, which he co-founded in 2001 with Josh Deu.

Butler’s wife, Régine Chassagne, is also a member of the band, and his brother, Will, was a member from 2003 to 2021. In addition to singing, Butler plays several instruments, including guitar, bass, piano, keyboards, and mandolin.

Arcade Fire has won numerous awards, including a Grammy for Album of the Year in 2011. The band has released six studio albums, including “Funeral,” “Neon Bible,” and “The Suburbs.”

Butler has also worked on film scores, including composing the score for 2009’s “The Box” with Chassagne and frequent Arcade Fire collaborator Owen Pallett. The band worked with Pallett on the score for the 2013 film “Her,” which earned them numerous awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.

Butler is also a DJ who goes by the stage name Windows 98, and he and Chassagne were revealed as shareholders of the music streaming service Tidal in 2015.

Early Life and Education

Win Butler was born Edwin Farnham Butler III on April 14, 1980, in Truckee, California. He grew up in a Mormon household in The Woodlands, Texas, with mother Liza, father Edwin II, and younger brother Will. Butler’s father worked for Halliburton as a geologist, and his mother is a singer and harpist who performed on the musical variety series “The King Family Show” with her parents and siblings in the ’60s.

Win attended New Hampshire’s Phillips Exeter Academy, then he spent a year studying creative writing and photography at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. In 2000, Butler began attending Montréal’s McGill University, where he met Régine Chassagne, his future wife/bandmate. He earned a bachelor’s degree in religious studies in 2004.