‘Michael’ Closing in on ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ as Top-Grossing Music Biopic Worldwide: See the Full List

The Michael Jackson biopic Michael has grossed $788 million worldwide since its release on April 24, according to boxofficemojo.com. Michael already ranks 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 hasn’t been an easy task in this case. The all-time top-grossing music biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, grossed $911 million worldwide. Can Michael close that $123 million gap and overtake the Freddie Mercury biopic? It just may. It grossed $166.1 million in the past week.

According to Box Office Mojo figures, international ticket sales account for nearly 60% of Michael‘s worldwide boxoffice total to date. International is responsible for 59.4% of the boxoffice tally, with the other 40.6% coming from the U.S. and Canada.

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.

These 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.