The recently released Wicked is casting a spell on moviegoers, setting a record as the first musical adaptation to surpass $300 million (£232m) at the US box office. It was also the highest-grossing release of 2024 that wasn’t a sequel or part of a franchise.

Read on to discover where Wicked ranks among the highest-grossing movie musicals of all time. Some of the entries on the list, as well as certain classics that didn’t make the cut, might just surprise you.

To determine which movies made our list, we've taken the global box office gross for each film on its initial theatrical run and adjusted the figure for inflation to give you an idea of how much they made in today's money. All dollar amounts in US dollars.