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By the Numbers: Shawn Mendes

November 18, 2019

By Jennifer Hackett

There’s no stopping Shawn Mendes! At age 13, he taught himself to play guitar by watching YouTube videos, and he has been strumming ever since. The singer-songwriter’s career exploded after he started posting videos of himself performing on social media in 2013. His catchy tunes like “Stitches” and “If I Can’t Have You” have topped the charts in both the United States and his home country of Canada.

Learn more about this pop star who’s now on a world tour! Then plug in the numbers to solve the equation below and reveal a final fact.

14

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Age Mendes was when he first started posting his songs on YouTube

2018

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Year Mendes wrote a song for the Portuguese World Cup team. His dad is from Portugal. So Mendes is half Portuguese!

$12,000,000

Mendes’s estimated net worth as of April 2019

1

via Instagram

Number of siblings Mendes has. Here he is in an Instagram post with his younger sister, Aaliyah.

10

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Number of times Mendes has lost his wallet!

74

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Mendes’s height in inches

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