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Does anyone know what kind of boost Elvis has had on spotify since the release of his biopic? The movie seems to be doing fairly well.
It's not doing well at all... Looks like it's gonna make less than the Elton John movie despite having twice the budget.
It has actually performed better in its first two weeks than the Elton John movie according to boxofficemojo. Especially in the United States (71.8M gross after 11 days for Elvis vs. 51.9M for Elton)
But my question was about his spotify numbers, not the movie gross so not sure what you're getting at.
Since its release he's gained around 100k-120k new listeners everyday and also has been appearing sporadically on the highest gainers in followers and the most viral artists lists. In the box office, the movie's outpacing Ray, Rocketman and Walk the Line. It should finish its US run around 110m-130m. enough to be the third highest grossing music biopic there; just below Straight Outta Compton and Bohemian Rhapsody. Worldwide it should finish second. Granted, with a massive gap between his film and Queen's. The 45 day window might be hurting its box office but will definitely give another boost to his numbers when it hits HBO Max.
It hasn't been released in my country but I can't wait to see it. I love most of the reimagined songs on the soundtrack. Hope this plant the seed in younger people to like him, just like Lilo & Stitch and the 30 #1 Hits compilation did back in 2002.
Walk the Line was made 2005 and worldwide box offices was 180 $ million and DVD sales was about 120 $ million. Movie about Johnny Cash. By the way, Johnny Cash over all sales is over 100 million, maybe 120-140 million EAS.
Yes, it's got of to a better start than Rocketman, but looking at Spotify, while there is obviously an upturn in his popularity, it is not looking like it's having the kind of effect on his streams, that Rocketman had on Eltons streams...well not as yet, at least.
He's gone up to 14,982,874 unique monthly listeners, an upward trend of 2.5m but that still puts him behind acts like Zeppelin 16,469,755 and Floyd 15,425,176 and miles behind acts like Queen 40m and Elton 47m and even some way behind Nirvana, AC/DC. Guns N Roses & Fleetwood Mac who are all around 23m/24m.
David Bowie is one of the biggest box set seller. Bowie is much bigger than others think. But Beatles is giant box set seller. But after Beatles is Dylan, Springsteen, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin.. Springsteen's live 1975-85 five LP collection price 25 dollars or three CD collection 38 dollars year 1986. And this set sold 4,4 million US, worldwide over 6 million sets. And multiply it by five. It is 6x5 = 30 million copies sold. You can add 24 million albums to Bruce.
Elvis is like Frank Sinatra, singer.
You're "not sure what I'm getting at" ? I'm answering to your post saying the movie is doing "fairly well" which is false, it looks like it's gonna gross around $200m on a $85m budget (not good).
Comparing box office grosses without adjusting for inflation is pointless, there are at least two other music biopics which sold way more tickets than Elvis will (Amadeus and Coal Miner's Daughter).
Watched the Elvis movie the other day, it was quite good actually, probably on the same level as Elton’s, though no way near as good as Bohemian Rhapsody.
I noticed at the end of the movie just before the credits, it wrote that Elvis is the biggest ever recording artist of all time ( presumably there meaning sales?) which as we know here is incorrect as it is the Beatles. This seems the same sort of hype that has always been associated with Elvis record sales.
Walk the Line inf. adj. Domestic 171 million grossing (in US). Budget 27 million.
285m worldwide, similar to Amadeus and Coal Miner's Daughter. Straight Outta Compton would be about 235m.
Based on Box Office returns the movie has skewed toward an older demographic ("Sixty percent of the "Elvis'" audience was over the age of 35, with the majority being women over the age of 50"), not necessarily the best demographic for Spotify.
