Herb Alpert – Net Worth $850 million

Herb Alpert is a successful American musician, specifically a trumpeter, who’s also an entrepreneur. His success in music as well as his money-making investments, which led him to earn over $850 million. You might recognize Alpert from his time with Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass. This is his music group which has been able to sell over 75 million records worldwide. Alpert’s earnings as a musician don’t quite compare to his profit from his sale of the record label A&M Records. He and his partner, Jerry Moss, sold A&M Records to PolyGram Records for an astounding $500 million.

A&M Records had signed some of the most popular artists in the music industry before they sold it to Polygram. They certainly won’t mind letting go of their talented music roster as they got hundreds of millions in return.