Which musician's biopic surpassed "Oppenheimer" as the top-grossing biopic of all time?

"Michael" became the highest-grossing biopic ever by combining one of the most recognizable, commercially powerful music catalogs in history with enduring public fascination around its subject's life. Musician biopics draw huge crowds when the soundtrack itself is a draw, and decades of chart-topping songs pulled in moviegoers well beyond typical biopic audiences.

Freddie Mercury's story was already told in a hit biopic, but it didn't reach this box-office peak, and Elton John has likewise been the subject of a film without topping this mark. Both remain culturally significant, but neither matched this scale.

It's a notable twist that a music biopic overtook "Oppenheimer," a film about building the atomic bomb that had won Best Picture only a couple of years earlier, showing how differently audiences respond to historical spectacle versus a beloved artist's greatest hits.