Music idol Amy Shark’s mega payday ahead of hot new album

Indie music star Amy Shark has agreed to multimillion-dollar deal to cement her Sydney relocation as the countdown begins to her new album release and Australia-NZ tour.

Indie music star Amy Shark has agreed to multimillion-dollar deal to cement her Sydney relocation as the countdown begins to her new album release and Australia-NZ tour.

The eight-time ARIA award winner tried remaining in her hometown on the Gold Coast but travel times wreaked havoc amid a hectic development schedule for her new album Sunday Sadness. Fans have been treated to weeks of teasers around the new album, set for release by Sony Music on August 16.

Amy Shark has had a hectic schedule in the past year with her new album in development and duties on Australian Idol with Marcia Hines and Kyle Sandilands. Picture: Nicholas Wilson.

Her new album Sunday Sadness is set for release August 16. Picture: Sony Music.

The payout comes off the beloved waterfront home she and husband Shane Billings bought in Broadbeach almost six years ago. They first tried renting it out for $2,300 a week to keep the home, before conceding a sale would be better option given the reality of a massive music program ahead for 2024.

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The Broadbeach home which the couple has now sold given their big move to Sydney.

The couple tried renting it out first but decided to go all in on relocation.

The property was sold by LJ Hooker Southport for $1.4m more than Shark had paid, fetching $3.65m via private treaty sale.

“The Gold Coast will always be home for me,” she said, “but I’m looking forward to spending more time in Sydney and basing myself there for the foreseeable future”.

The Broadbeach waterfront home is not the first that the couple has sold off on the Gold Coast – letting go a three-bedroom townhouse in Varsity Lakes for $355,000 nine years ago, as well as another four-bedder in Broadbeach Waters for $880,000 three years ago.

Amy Shark begins touring in October.

The Amy Shark tour will cover major eight cities through Australia and New Zealand, kicking off in Deniliquin in the Riverina region of New South Wales on October 4-5, followed by Auckland Oct 12, Melbourne Oct 18, Hobart Oct 19, Sydney Oct 25, Brisbane Oct 26, Hindmarsh Oct 31, wrapping up in Perth Nov 2.

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