Claim: The soundtrack of Pitch Perfect 2 peaked at number one on four music charts, and the movie was the highest grossing musical-comedy of all time, earning 184.2 gross in North America.
Evidence: 1 1 1 1 It surpassed the total gross of the original film ($115.4 million) in five days, and also became the highest-grossing music comedy film of all-time, overtaking School of Rock ($131.3 million). Pitch Perfect 2 grossed $184.2 million in North America and $103.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $287.5 million, against an estimated gross production budget of $29-31 million, and the film was offered up to $8.9 million in production incentives and write-offs by the state of Louisiana.