What Is Flume's Net Worth?
Flume is an Australian musician, record producer, DJ, and songwriter who has a net worth of $10 million. Flume's style can be described as electronica, EDM, and electropop. His self-titled debut studio album was released in 2012 and reached #1 in Australia, where it was certified 2x Platinum. Flume's second studio album, "Skin," was released in 2016 and reached #1 in Australia and New Zealand as well as #3 in Belgium and #8 in the United States. In 2022, he released his third album, "Palaces," and it reached #3 in Australia. Flume has also released the mixtapes "Hi This Is Flume" (2019), "Things Don't Always Go the Way You Plan" (2023), and "Arrived Anxious, Left Bored" (2023) and the EPs "Lockjaw" (with Chet Faker, 2013), "Skin Companion EP 1" (2016), "Skin Companion EP 2" (2017), "Quits" (with Reo Cragun, 2019), and "We Live in a Society" (with JPEGMafia, 2025). "Lockjaw" was certified 2× Platinum in Australia, and "Quits" went Gold. Flume's singles "Holdin On," "Drop the Game" (with Chet Faker), "Say It" (featuring Tove Lo), and "Say Nothing" (featuring May-a) all reached #1 on the Australian independent chart. His single "Never Be Like You" (featuring Kai) reached #1 in Australia. Flume has won numerous awards, including 12 ARIA Music Awards, six APRA Music Awards, four AIR Awards, and a Grammy Award.
Early Life
Flume was born Harley Edward Streten on November 5, 1991, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is the son of record producer/filmmaker Glen Streten and horticulturist/former teacher Lyndall Streten, and he has two siblings. Flume attended Seaforth Public School, St Augustine's College, and Mosman High School. He started composing music at an early age, and he told Time magazine in 2017, "I was quite young, probably 10 or 11. I was shopping with my dad and there was a cereal that had a promotion on it. It was a CD with a simple music-making program. I thought that sounded cool, so I got him to get it. I installed it, and basically saw music in layers for the first time. I'd always been a big music fan from a young age, but I didn't really understand how it worked. To be able to see inside of it, and see all the different sections, gave me a different perspective on it." In 2010, Flume started producing house music under the name HEDS.
Career
After his song "Possum" became his first song to gain radio play, Flume signed a record deal with the Australian label Future Classic in 2011. He released his debut self-titled album in November 2012, and it reached #1 on the Australian ARIA Albums chart and Australian Independent Label Albums chart. The album was certified 2× Platinum in Australia and Gold in New Zealand. The single "Holdin On" topped the Australian Independent Label Singles chart and went 3× Platinum in New Zealand and 2× Platinum in Australia, while the singles ""On Top" (featuring T.Shirt) and "Sleepless" (featuring Jezzabell Doran) reached the top five on that chart and were certified Platinum in New Zealand and Gold in Australia. On Australia Day in 2013, four of his songs were included on the "Triple J Hottest 100 for 2012" countdown, and in March 2013, Fuse TV named him one of 30 "Must-See Acts" at the South by Southwest festival. Flume collaborated with Chet Faker on the 2013 EP "Lockjaw," which was certified 2× Platinum in Australia. The single "Drop the Game" reached #1 on the Australian Independent Label Singles chart and #18 on the Australian ARIA Singles chart.
In May 2016, Flume released his second album, "Skin," which topped the Australian ARIA Albums chart, New Zealand Albums chart, and U.S. Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The album went Platinum in Australia and Gold in the U.S., and the single "Never Be Like You" (featuring Kai) topped the Australian ARIA Singles chart, Australian ARIA Dance chart, and Sweden Heatseeker chart and was certified Platinum or higher in seven countries. The single "Say It" (featuring Tove Lo) reached #1 on the Australian Independent Label Singles chart and went 4× Platinum in Australia and New Zealand, and "Smoke & Retribution" (featuring Vince Staples and Kučka) peaked at #3 on that chart. Next, Flume released the "Skin Companion EP 1" (2016) and "Skin Companion EP 2" (2017), which peaked at #29 and #67, respectively, on the Australian ARIA chart. From those two EPs, the singles "Heater," "Trust" (featuring Isabella Manfredi), "Weekend" (featuring Moses Sumney), and "Enough" (featuring Pusha T) were top 10 hits on the NZ Heatseeker Singles Chart. In January 2017, it was announced that the single "Never Be Like You" from "Skin" was #1 on "Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2016" countdown.
In 2022, Flume released his third album, "Palaces," which reached #3 on the Australian ARIA Albums chart and #1 on the Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums. The single "Say Nothing" (featuring May-a) reached #1 on the Australian Independent Label Singles chart, #4 on the Australian ARIA Singles chart, and #5 on the New Zealand Hot Singles chart, and it was certified 2× Platinum in Australia and Gold in New Zealand. Flume has also written songs for other artists, including Anna Lunoe, George Maple, Vince Staples, and Tkay Maidza, and he has produced music for artists such as Lorde and JPEGMafia.
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Personal Life
In September 2019, Flume's then-girlfriend Paige Elkington posted an Instagram video of Flume performing a sex act on her during a Burning Man performance. The video went viral despite being quickly removed from Instagram, and though the incident was portrayed negatively in tabloids, it had a positive impact on his career. During a 2020 interview on Elkington's "My Friend Podcast," Flume stated, "I got the opposite of being cancelled." He also spoke about his family's reaction to the viral video, saying that his mother told him, "You know what, honey? I'm just going to stop following the Google alerts. I think I get enough information." Flume has said that public speaking is his "worst nightmare" and that he used to drink alcohol before his performances to help him cope with anxiety. In April 2025, Flume became engaged to American fashion designer Isabella Lalonde.
Awards and Nominations
Flume has earned four Grammy nominations, winning for Best Dance/Electronic Album for "Skin" in 2017. His other nominations were for Best Dance Recording for "Never Be Like You" (2017) and The Difference" (2021) and Best Dance/Electronic Album for "Hi This Is Flume" (2020). He has won a dozen ARIA Music Awards, and in 2013, he received AIR Awards for Best Independent Artist, Best Independent Dance/Electronica Album and Best Independent Dance/Electronica Album for "Flume," and Best Independent Dance/Electronica Single for "Holdin On." Flume has earned APRA Music Awards for Dance Work of the Year for "Holdin On" (2014) and "Never Be like You" (2017), Most Played Australian Work for "Never Be like You" (2017) and "Rushing Back" (2021), Songwriter of the Year (2017), and Song of the Year for "Say Nothing" (2023). He has also won a J Award for Australian Album of the Year for "Flume" (2013) and a National Live Music Award for Live Electronic Act (or DJ) of the Year (2016).