Box Office History for Genre - Musical

Ticket Sales and Market Share History

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008

Top Grossing Movies 1977 - 2008, Adjusted for Ticket Price Inflation

	Movie	Distributor	Release Date	Total Gross	Inflation-Adjusted Gross
1	Grease	Paramount Pictures	6/16/1978	$181,508,510	$491,810,367
2	Beauty and the Beast	Buena Vista	11/13/1991	$171,340,294	$264,527,111
3	Chicago	Miramax	12/27/2002	$170,687,518	$195,166,081
4	Footloose	Paramount Pictures	2/17/1984	$80,000,000	$163,809,525
5	The Blues Brothers	Universal	6/20/1980	$57,229,890	$146,372,358
6	Staying Alive	Paramount Pictures	7/15/1983	$63,841,474	$139,437,889
7	Annie	Sony Pictures	5/21/1982	$57,059,003	$133,525,829
8	Hairspray	New Line	7/20/2007	$118,823,091	$118,823,090
9	Dreamgirls	Paramount Pictures	12/15/2006	$103,365,956	$105,233,322
10	Anastasia	20th Century Fox	11/14/1997	$58,403,409	$87,370,159
11	Yentl	MGM/UA Classics	11/18/1983	$39,012,241	$82,432,025
12	The Nightmare Before Christmas	Buena Vista	10/13/1993	$50,408,318	$81,937,360
13	Fantasia 2000 (IMAX)	Buena Vista	1/1/2000	$60,507,228	$77,424,396
14	Evita	Buena Vista	12/25/1996	$50,047,179	$75,144,564
15	Breakin'	Cannon	5/4/1984	$36,100,000	$73,919,050
16	Little Shop of Horrors	Warner Bros.	12/19/1986	$38,747,385	$70,033,618
17	Moulin Rouge	20th Century Fox	5/18/2001	$57,386,369	$69,868,574
18	Xanadu	Universal	8/8/1980	$22,762,571	$58,218,023
19	The Phantom of the Opera	Warner Bros.	12/22/2004	$51,225,796	$55,512,257
20	Fame	MGM	5/16/1980	$21,202,829	$54,228,800
21	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Paramount Pictures	12/21/2007	$52,898,073	$52,898,077
22	Victor/Victoria	MGM	3/19/1982	$22,524,614	$52,710,659
23	Grease 2	Paramount Pictures	6/11/1982	$14,297,083	$33,457,117
24	Rent	Sony Pictures	11/23/2005	$29,077,547	$31,209,600
25	Beauty and the Beast (IMAX)	Buena Vista	1/1/2002	$25,487,028	$30,232,887
Complete List

Year by Year Market Share

Year	Movies in Release	Market Share	Gross	Tickets Sold	Inflation- Adjusted Gross	Top-Grossing Movie	Gross that Year
1996	2	.04%	$2,498,859	565,352	$3,889,622	Evita	$2,225,737
1997	5	1.84%	$114,383,168	24,920,081	$171,450,157	Anastasia	$53,042,286
1998	7	.78%	$52,582,462	11,211,612	$77,135,891	Grease	$28,411,018
1999	8	.32%	$23,578,798	4,659,843	$32,059,720	The King and I	$12,064,440
2000	9	1.25%	$92,875,702	17,231,113	$118,550,057	Fantasia 2000 (IMAX)	$58,216,703
2001	7	.86%	$69,784,570	12,351,251	$84,976,607	Moulin Rouge	$57,044,922
2002	7	.67%	$62,994,395	10,861,102	$74,724,382	Beauty and the Beast (IMAX)	$25,487,028
2003	6	2.19%	$202,852,759	33,640,590	$231,447,259	Chicago	$161,445,985
2004	5	.24%	$22,667,489	3,644,290	$25,072,715	The Phantom of the Opera	$16,178,431
2005	7	.92%	$81,820,906	12,764,572	$87,820,255	The Phantom of the Opera	$35,047,365
2006	6	.74%	$68,191,372	10,410,897	$71,626,971	Dreamgirls	$37,064,395
2007	10	2.53%	$243,010,890	35,321,351	$243,010,895	Hairspray	$118,823,091
2008	2	.84%	$26,055,543	3,787,143	$26,055,544	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street	$25,984,477

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