Bruce Springsteen Is Now a Billionaire, Forbes Estimates

The Boss is officially a billionaire.

Bruce Springsteen, who, with songs like “Badlands,” “Hungry Heart” and “My Hometown” became rock ‘n’ roll’s voice of the working class, is now worth $1.1 billion, according to a “conservative” Forbes estimate.

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Much of his net worth has been solidified in the past few years. In 2021, Springsteen sold his music catalog to Sony for an estimated $500-$550 million, marking the biggest transaction ever struck for a single artist’s body of work. Pollstar reported that in 2023, The Boss sold more than 1.6 million concert tickets, generating $380 million in revenue.

With more than 71 million albums sold in the U.S. and 140 million worldwide, Springsteen is among the best-selling music artists of all time. He’s won 20 Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a special Tony Award for “Springsteen on Broadway,” his critically acclaimed, stripped-back one-man show.

Alongside the E Street Band, Springsteen is still touring the world and performing concerts that exceed runtimes of three hours. Reviewing his April 6 Los Angeles concert, which had been postponed from 2023 due to Springsteen’s illness, Variety‘s Chris Willman wrote, “Its 200-minute running time was 40 minutes longer than most other sets of his lately, all of which already test and transcend what a guy in his early 70s who recently recovered from illness ought to be pulling off. … Springsteen has put on a tour that is the most bittersweet show on earth, until it finally settles for being the happiest, and occasionally even goofiest… and then turns heartbreaking again for the final encore.”

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