AMERICAN legend Bruce Springsteen built a career as a songwriter, musician, and singer over several decades. The New Jersey native achieved success in his music career as a solo artist and the leader of the E Street Band. In all his roles, he made great financial gains throughout. What is Bruce Springsteen’s net worth? The […]
AMERICAN legend Bruce Springsteen built a career as a songwriter, musician, and singer over several decades.
The New Jersey native achieved success in his music career as a solo artist and the leader of the E Street Band. In all his roles, he made great financial gains throughout.
The singing icon has a net worth of $500 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, and he makes around $80 million a year.
Springsteen sold over 135 million albums globally so far, which makes him among the top 35 best-selling music artists in history.
Springsteen debut studio album “Greetings from Asbury Park” was released in 1973 and had a slow sale, according to Celebrity Net Worth, and his second album“The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle” had a similar fate.
But his album “Born to Run” which was released in 1975 gained a huge commercial success, climbing to third place on the Billboard 200.
Former president Barack Obama gave Springsteen the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016[/caption]Springsteen appeared on the covers of Newsweek and Times magazine that year.
Though the music legend is known for a number of successful records, his signatures included the 1984 hit “Born in the U.S.A.”
Around 15 million copies of the album were sold in the US and 30 million copies were sold worldwide.
Springsteen won 20 Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and an Academy Award.
Springsteen is reportedly set to return to Broadway on June 26 for a limited show of his “Springsteen on Broadway” which will run until September, according to The Independent.
“Springsteen on Broadway” kicked off for the first time in 2017 and closed in late 2018[/caption]“I loved doing ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ and I’m thrilled to have been asked to reprise the show as part of the reopening of Broadway,” the singer said in a statement, according to The Independent.
Springsteen performs 15 songs in the show including My Hometown and Thuder Road, and talks about his life growing up in New Jersey.
“Springsteen on Broadway” kicked off for the first time in 2017 and closed in late 2018.
A soundtrack of the show was released by Columbia Records and a filmed version can be found on Netflix.