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The boss is now officially a billionaire.
Bruce SpringsteenHe became the working-class voice of rock and roll with songs like “Badlands,” “Hungry Heart” and “Broken Hometown,” and is now worth $1.1 billion. “Conservative” Forbes estimates.
Much of his net worth has been solidified in recent years. In 2021, Springsteen sold his music catalog to Sony for an estimated $500 million to $550 million, the largest deal ever for a single artist. Pollstar reported that The Boss sold more than 1.6 million concert tickets in 2023, generating $380 million in revenue.
Springsteen is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, having sold more than 71 million albums in the United States and more than 140 million worldwide. He has won 20 Grammy Awards, an Academy Award and a special Tony Award for his critically acclaimed, stripped-down one-man show, “Springsteen on Broadway.”
Springsteen grew up in a working-class family in a coastal town in New Jersey and bought his first guitar after seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. He played in a band in high school and released his debut album, Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ, in 1973. Singing about the thrills and traps of adolescence, young love, and escaping New Jersey, he had a string of hits including “Born to Run,” “Thunder Road,” “I’m on Fire,” and “Dancing in the Dark.” He became a folk hero, with lyrics that addressed the trials of everyday life, and his commercial success and long concert run made him one of the most important figures in American popular music.
With the E Street Band, Springsteen continues to tour the world, performing concerts that last more than three hours. Looking back on his April 6th Los Angeles performance, which was postponed from 2023 due to Springsteen’s illness, varietyChris Willman of“At 200 minutes, the playing time is 40 minutes longer than most of his recent sets, each of which tests and pushes the limits of what a man in his early 70s recently recovered from an illness should be able to accomplish. … Springsteen tours what is at once the most bittersweet show on earth, eventually settling into the happiest, at times the goofiest, and then, for the final encore, heartbreaking again.”
