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Bruce Springsteen Is Now a Billionaire, Forbes Estimates
Variety ^ | Jul 19, 2024 | Ethan Shanfeld

Posted on 07/19/2024 2:12:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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.

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 bestselling 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.

Springsteen grew up in a working-class family in a town on the Jersey Shore and bought his first guitar after watching the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” He played in bands in high school and released his debut album in 1973, “Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.” Singing about the thrills and traps of adolescence, young love and getting the hell out of New Jersey, Springsteen spurned hits like “Born to Run,” “Thunder Road,” “I’m on Fire” and “Dancing in the Dark.” He became a hero of the common man with lyrics about the trials of everyday life, and his commercial success and marathon concerts helped catapult him into one of the most important figures in American popular music.

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 show, 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.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: brucespringsteen; heartlandrock; newjersey
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To: LIConFem

Clearly you’ve never been to a Springsteen show. He’s anything but a mediocre performer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN0wMm50hzs


21 posted on 07/19/2024 2:36:39 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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NJ tough guy lives in Wellington, FL to escape the NJ taxes.


22 posted on 07/19/2024 2:40:08 PM PDT by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: bigdaddy45

Agreed.

I am not a huge fan, and rarely if ever listen to him, but these threads are always so silly.

Especially the day after Kid Rock was praised like crazy.


23 posted on 07/19/2024 2:41:23 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: nickcarraway

Good!That means he can afford to move the socialist country of his dreams and shut the FBI up about America.


24 posted on 07/19/2024 2:57:40 PM PDT by Mastador1
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To: nickcarraway

Bruce who?


25 posted on 07/19/2024 2:59:02 PM PDT by patriot torch (..)
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To: nickcarraway

1,000 Million dollars...


26 posted on 07/19/2024 2:59:49 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: bigbob

The guy who people say sings songs about the working man, said in his biography that he never did a day of real work in his life.


27 posted on 07/19/2024 3:20:45 PM PDT by BansheeBill
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve never liked his music with the exception on one song, Secret Garden.


28 posted on 07/19/2024 3:23:36 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: nickcarraway

I just don’t get it.

“57 channels and there’s nothing on”?


29 posted on 07/19/2024 3:23:50 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: nickcarraway

“He’s always miserable, and doesn’t like anyone.”

***********

Par for the course. He’s a raging liberal.


30 posted on 07/19/2024 3:31:13 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Flag_This

Yep.

And how much are his concert tickets?


31 posted on 07/19/2024 3:35:39 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: nickcarraway

If we don’t get rid of the dems in power, we’ll all be billionaires. But bread will cost $20,000 a loaf.


32 posted on 07/19/2024 3:40:08 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: noiseman

That’ll make Keto a lot easier.


33 posted on 07/19/2024 3:41:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
That’ll make Keto a lot easier.

Not after you visit the meat counter. Of course, by then there’ll be a bug counter for those who are merely billionaires.

34 posted on 07/19/2024 3:46:51 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: rktman

Ask him if he agrees with Barry Soetoro: “at some point you’ve made enough money”…..


35 posted on 07/19/2024 4:29:28 PM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: bigdaddy45

Attended a Springteen concert at the Naval Academy in 1975. Clarence, The Big Man was on the saxophone.

Incredible music and show.


36 posted on 07/19/2024 4:34:39 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: LIConFem

He was booed off the stage back in the early days when he played solo at a concert at my alma mater UConn !


37 posted on 07/19/2024 4:39:32 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: nickcarraway
Slacker...

Taylor Swift became a billionaire at age 33.

-PJ

38 posted on 07/19/2024 4:44:38 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: nickcarraway

Coward draft dodger . . . useless


39 posted on 07/19/2024 5:41:44 PM PDT by laweeks (///)
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To: bigdaddy45

Thanks for the ‘Detroit Medley’ clip. Here’s another one where Springsteen and the band just burn down the house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx_K0tFXr8k


40 posted on 07/19/2024 7:43:44 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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