List of highest-grossing musicals
The following is a list of highest-grossing musicals, including musical theatre productions and musical films. Highest-grossing musical theatre franchises. Worldwide revenue. The following is a list of the top 10 highest-grossing musical theatre franchises worldwide based on limited available data. The following figures include revenue grossed from ticket sales in theatres across the world. Note that the following gross figures are nominal, not adjusted for inflation, and do not take into account rising ticket prices. As such, the list gives far more weight to more recent musicals. "The Lion King" sits at  the top, with a gross of $8.2 billion worldwide. Broadway revenue (since 1982). The following is a list of the top 25 highest-grossing Broadway musicals since 1982, based on data collected by the Broadway League. These grosses do not take into account the effects of inflation and as such the list is heavily skewed in favor of more recent Broadway shows. Moreover, the Broadway League did not begin collecting gross data until June 1984. Hence, accurate pre-1984 gross data is not available and this list should not be considered accurate for musicals that premiered on Broadway before that  year. "The Lion King" sits at the top, with a Broadway gross of $1.6 billion. Dates refer to original Broadway productions, with notes added for future productions that outran the Broadway run. Highest-grossing musical films. Box office revenue. Note that the following gross figures are nominal, not adjusted for inflation, and do not take into account rising ticket prices, or differences in ticket prices between different countries. When adjusted for inflation, the highest-grossing musical films are "The Sound of Music", with an inflation-adjusted worldwide gross of $; followed by "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", with  an inflation-adjusted worldwide gross of $ (both as of 2019). The top five films are among the highest-grossing films of all time. Highest-grossing opening weekends. The following is a list of the biggest opening weekends for musical films worldwide. Timeline of highest-grossing openings. Highest-grossing musical films by year. The following is a list of highest-grossing musical film by year. Disney top the list 27 times. All films in "The Jungle Book", "Saturday Night Fever", "Beauty and the Beast", "The Lion King", "Rio" are on the list, along with "Alvin and the Chipmunks" franchises are  the most represented franchises each have two films on the list. Highest-grossing musical film series and film franchises. Note that the following gross figures are nominal, not adjusted for inflation, and do not take into account increasing ticket prices. A series must have at least two theatrically released films. Box office admissions (ticket sales). Musical theatre. The following is a list of the top 10 musical theatre franchises with the highest theatre admissions. The list includes worldwide ticket sales as well as Broadway ticket sales since 1984. The Broadway League did not begin collecting admissions data until June 1984 . Hence, pre-1984 Broadway admissions data is not available and the Broadway figures should not be considered accurate for musicals that premiered on Broadway before that year. Musical films. The following table lists known estimated box office ticket sales for various high-grossing musical films that have sold at least 75million tickets worldwide. Note that some of the data are incomplete due to a lack of available admissions data from a number of countries. Therefore, it is not an exhaustive list of all the highest-grossing musical films by ticket sales, so no rankings are given. List of highest-grossing musicals