Bruce Springsteen, like Taylor Swift and Jay-Z, is part of a very, very exclusive club of wealthy musicians.

PEOPLE – He’s rolling in money. American rock legend Bruce Springsteen is now part of the club of musicians whose fortune exceeds a billion dollars, the business magazine Forbes estimated on Friday, July 19. In this club of very wealthy stars, he joins Rihanna, Jay-Z and Taylor Swift.

Born in working-class New Jersey, the voice of working-class America and a workaholic, « guitar-hero » a “amassed a substantial fortune” for decades “singing about his blue-collar roots”writes Forbes, which estimates his wealth at $1.1 billion.

His fortune expanded thanks to Sony

Since his first opus Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. (1973), the « boss » has sold some 140 million albums worldwide and his memoir was a bestseller in bookstores. The singer of the American dream and its setbacks has won 20 Grammy Awards and an Oscar for his hit Streets of Philadelphia (1994).

The singer of Born in the USA et Dancing in the Dark74, was also able to expand his fortune in 2021, when he sold the rights to his music catalog to Sony for about $500 million, shortly after a sold-out run on Broadway.

True to his original group, the E Street Bandhe is currently on a world tour which is due to continue until 2025.

Throughout his career, he has given his fans long concerts, the longest lasting over four hours, in Helsinki in 2012. He will also be portrayed in a future biopic, with the star of the series The BearJeremy Allen White, to play his role.