Grimes, who once banked $5.8 million in 20 minutes by selling crypto art, says she’s made more from NFTs than from her entire music career

• Grimes said that she’s made more money selling NFTs than she has through her music.

• In 2021, she made $5.8 million in 20 minutes after dropping a set of NFTs.

• The artist recently offered to split revenue with anyone who makes a song with her voice using AI.

Grimes said that her earnings from selling NFTs outpace what she’s earned over the course of her music career.

In a wide-ranging interview with Wired, the artist (whose given name is Claire Boucher) reflected on her venture into crypto and non-fungible tokens. In 2021, she launched a digital art collection called “WarNymph” composed of 10 NFTs in collaboration with her brother, Mac Boucher. In under 20 minutes, those NFTs brought in over $5.8 million, Insider previously reported.

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“That was on my brother,” Grimes said of earning money from selling NFTs. “He had a real vision, and we wound up doing one of the first big ones. It did actually change my life.”

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When asked by Wired editor at large Steven Levy if she had made more money from selling NFTs than her music career, Grimes said, “Yeah.”

Grimes, who shares two children with Elon Musk, has been releasing music since 2010, and dropped out of school in 2011. She released her breakout album “Visions,” which featured the track “Oblivion,” in 2012, and went on to release the critically acclaimed album “Art Angels” in 2015.

Recently, Grimes announced that she would split revenue with anyone who made a song using her voice via AI, releasing an AI voice software that allows creators to convert vocal tracks to Grimes’ voice.

“Two in particular were very, very good,” Grimes told Wired of user-generated tracks featuring her voice. “They’re so in line with what my new album might be like that it was sort of disturbing. It’s like, ‘Who am I, and what am I here for?’ On the other hand, it’s like, ‘Oh, sick, I might get to live forever.'”

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