Michael Jackson Film Moves Up Our List of Highest-Grossing Music Biopics Worldwide: See Where It Ranks
The films on this list cover a wide range of genres, including rap, classical, country, Latin and contemporary Christian.
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The Michael Jackson film Michael has grossed $424.8 million worldwide in its first 10 days of release, according to boxofficemojo.com. That already places it at No. 2 on Billboard’s list of music biopics with the highest worldwide grosses. Jackson has a long history of ranking No. 1 on lists, dating back to The Jackson 5 landing their first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “I Want You Back” in 1970, but that will be a tough assignment in this case. The all-time top-grossing music biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, grossed $910.8 million worldwide.
According to boxoffice mojo figures, international ticket sales account for nearly two-thirds of Michael‘s boxoffice total to date. International is responsible for 66.1% of the boxoffice tally, with the other 33.9% coming from the U.S. and Canada.
Michael has already outperformed the 2009 concert film/documentary hybrid Michael Jackson’s This Is It, which grossed $268 million worldwide.
Of note: Graham King, who co-produced Michael with longtime Jackson associates John Branca and John McClain, also co-produced Bohemian Rhapsody and a third music biopic on this list, Jersey Boys, the story of the Four Seasons.
Here are the highest-grossing biopics of musicians in terms of worldwide box office. We didn’t include a few high-grossing films about real-life music personalities because the subjects are not well-known music stars in their own right. These include The Sound of Music (which tells the story of Maria von Trapp and the Trapp Family Singers); Green Book (which deals with a road trip taken by pianist and composer Don Shirley); Florence Foster Jenkins (about an heiress and hopelessly untalented soprano by that name); and Music of the Heart (about violinist and music educator Roberta Guaspari). Meryl Streep starred in the latter two films.
Here are the 25 biopics of music stars with the highest worldwide grosses.
