DJ Young Chow Net Worth 2026: Hot 97 Reggae and Soca DJ

No reliable source has published a net worth for DJ Young Chow. The $6.3 million figure that used to appear here had no source and has been removed. What can be verified is his career: DJ Young Chow, born Patrick Chow, is a Brooklyn-based reggae, dancehall and soca DJ who has held a mix show on New York's Hot 97, was nominated for International DJ of the Year at the 2024 Caribbean Music Awards, and still books festival and museum dates in 2026.

What Is DJ Young Chow's Net Worth?

There is no published, sourced estimate of his wealth. DJ fees, radio pay and club bookings are private, and no music-business outlet has reported his earnings. The previous version of this page also described him as a "musician, band, and artist" who releases albums; that was inaccurate. He is a working DJ and radio host whose output is mixes, live sets and radio shows.

His income comes from three places that can be documented:

• Radio – on-air mix slots on Hot 97 in New York.
• Live bookings – club nights, carnivals, festivals and brand events in New York and abroad.
• Sponsored events – for example, a 2016 Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire party in Manhattan that The Fader covered with him on the decks.

DJ Young Chow's Yearly Earnings, Monthly Income and Salary

The old page stated a yearly income of $250,000, or about $21,000 a month and $700 a day, and attributed it to "a survey." No such survey exists that we could find, and the numbers have been removed. Hot 97 does not publish what it pays its mix-show DJs, and booking fees for Caribbean-music DJs are negotiated privately. We would rather say we don't know than print a made-up figure.

Early Life and Family

A 2015 HuffPost profile gives the best-documented account of his background:

• His birth name is Patrick Chow.
• He is the son of King Chow, a soca DJ, and became interested in music as a toddler by watching his father work.
• He played his first party in Miami at age 9.
• At 11 he traveled to Africa with a steel band group, a trip he credited with making him love touring and performing.

Earlier versions of this page included a paragraph about a "supportive wife." We found no reliable source naming a spouse, so that section has been removed. His exact age, height and weight have not been published by any reliable source either, and those claims were removed too.

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Career and Hot 97

DJ Young Chow is best known for his Caribbean-music programming on Hot 97. HuffPost described him in 2015 as the DJ warming up New Yorkers for Saturday nights on the station. During Hot 97's 2023 Fourth of July all-mix weekend, the station's schedule gave him the 8 p.m. hour on Sunday, July 2, alongside names such as Funkmaster Flex, DJ Khaled and DJ Drama.

His show also works as an interview platform for dancehall artists. In 2016, dancer and recording artist Ding Dong visited the Hot 97 studio for a video interview with DJ Young Chow and taught him a new dance on camera.

Timeline

Awards and Nominations

In 2015 he received his first nomination at the Global Spin Awards, in the Reggae DJ of the Year category. HuffPost noted that the awards had previously honored DJs such as DJ Mustard, Jermaine Dupri and Diplo in other categories.

In 2024, Billboard listed him among the nominees for International DJ of the Year at the Caribbean Music Awards, alongside Private Ryan, DJ Puffy, DJ Kevin Crown and others. We did not find a report that he won either award.

Recent Bookings (2025–2026)

• Carnival at the Museum: A Climate Fete – the American Museum of Natural History listed Hot 97's DJ Young Chow to play dancehall, reggae and soca at its 2026 carnival event, which also featured Machel Montano.
• CURLFEST 2026 – BKReader reported that he was scheduled to perform at the July festival celebrating Black beauty and entrepreneurship in New York.
• Jamaica carnival season – the Jamaica Star entertainment diary for April 2026 listed him with Kevin Crown and Chromatic at a pre-carnival rooftop party in Kingston.

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Why There Is No Reliable Estimate

DJ Young Chow is a regional star in Caribbean music rather than a headline act with public contracts, streaming revenue reports or property deals in the press. Radio pay, booking fees and sponsorship deals are not disclosed. Any net worth number you see for him online is a guess that is not tied to a document or a named financial outlet, so we do not print one.