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12/28/2025

Jeremy Allen White and Bruce Springsteen attend a Q&A hosted by Spotify for top Spotify fans on October 14, 2025 in London, England. Dave Benett/Getty Images

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere received mixed reviews from critics, and underperformed at the boxoffice, but as of Sunday (Dec. 28) it has grossed $45.1 million worldwide, according to boxofficemojo.com. It ranks No. 19 on Billboard‘s list of music biopics with the highest worldwide grosses.

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere isn’t a traditional cradle-to-grave biopic — for one thing, its protagonist is, thankfully, still very much with us. It’s part of a subgenre of biopics which focuses on one fateful period in an artist’s life. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is set in the period following Springsteen’s 1980 commercial breakthrough, The River (which spawned his first true pop smash, “Hungry Heart”) where the artist felt compelled to make a low-key, acoustic album, Nebraska. All concerned understood that this project wouldn’t have the same commercial potential as The River, which had spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. (And it didn’t, peaking at No. 3.) But Springsteen has always been an artist, more than just a hitmaker, and this was the album he wanted and needed to make at that time.

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.

• The Doors (1991)

  Worldwide gross: $34.5 million

  Director: Oliver Stone