Elton John's 2019 film Rocketman, which he describes as a musical fantasy and not a bio-pic, has been passed by Bob Marley: One Love on Billboard's list of the Top 25 Highest-Grossing Music Biopics.
Elton was sitting at number-five with a gross of $96.4 million, but One Love took in $607,000 in its eighth week at the box office, bringing its box-office gross to $96.6 million in the U.S. and Canada through this past Sunday.
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody sits atop the list with a domestic gross of $216.4 million.
Here's the Top 10:
- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) - $216.4 million
- N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton (2015) - $161.2 million
- Elvis Presley - Elvis (2022) - $151 million
- Johnny Cash - Walk the Line (2005) - $119.5 million
- Bob Marley: One Love (2024) - $96.6 million
- Elton John - Rocketman (2019) - $96.4 million
- MercyMe (Christian band) - I Can Only Imagine (2018) - $83.5 million
- Ray Charles - Ray (2004) - $75.3 million
- Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) - $67.2 million (co-starring Levon Helm from The Band)
- Ritchie Valens - La Bamba (1987) - $54.2 million
And other notable rock-leaning films in the Top 25:
- 20. The Doors (1991) - $34.4 million
- 25. The Buddy Holly Story (1978) - $14.4 million
Source: Billboard and Premiere