There's two sides to the answer here - sales and gross world tours/concerts. According to sources:
(sales)
Michael Jackson $1.25billion ($500m increase since his death)
Beatles and Elvis sales $1billion+
ABBA $370m
Queen $300m
Madonna and Elton John $250m
(concerts - totals)
Rolling Stones $1.7billion
M Jackson $1 billion ($500m "this is it" grossed sales)
U2 $1billion
Madonna $780m
B Springsteen $605
Rolling Stones still holds the biggest selling grossed tour to date (inflation adjusted)
A Bigger Bang Tour - $608m
This is it - $500m (if he turned up)
Voodoo Lounge - $456m
Bridges to Babylon - $450m
Vertigo - $420m
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There were two albums that were the highest grossing of all time. The Thriller album by Michael Jackson and The Eagles Greatest Hits.
Hey Jude.
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The HIStory World Tour; $163,500,000.
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The sentence should be hyphenated thus: 'It is the highest-grossing movie of the year.' The adjective is 'highest-grossing' - the superlative form of 'high-grossing'.
Iron Man 3 is the highest grossing film for 2013.
As of May 01st 2018, Black Panther is the highest grossing superhero movie in America [& the third highest grossing movie ever]Worldwide box office, The Avengers is the highest grossing superhero movie followed by Avengers Age of Ultron & Black Panther.
Most popular: Horror Highest Grossing: adults
Finding Dory is currently [in 2017] Pixar's highest grossing film w/ $486,295,561
James Cameron's Avatar is the highest grossing movie worldwide w/ $2,787,965,087.
Avatar is the highest grossing Oscar winning movie of all time worldwide.Avatar is also the highest grossing Oscar winner domestically because the highest grossing movie, Star Wars: The Force Awakens did not win in the 5 Oscar categories in was nominated for.When adjusted for inflation, Gone with the Wind in the highest grossing Oscar winning movie.-If you mean the highest grossing movie that won the Best Picture Oscar, that would also be Gone with the Windunadjusted for inflation. It made 199 million dollars.
The highest box-office grossing actress is Cameron Diaz. This is due to her work in such franchises as Shrek and Charlie's Angels.
The Wiggles
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