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#5,708 All-time worldwide
#15 1972 releases

Movie profile

Lady Sings the Blues

1972 · 144 min · Weston Productions

Drama Music
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $19.7M
Budget $2.0M
Gross minus budget $17.7M
ROI 9.86x

Domestic gross

$9.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.9M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Lady Sings the Blues ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
Open rankings
All-time worldwide #5,708 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1972 releases #15 Release-year chart position of 48 titles Ranked against movies released in 1972. Primary genre #2,317 Drama of 6,006 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Lady Sings the Blues (1972) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Lady Sings the Blues (1972) earned a reported $19.7M worldwide against a reported $2.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $17.7M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 9.86x. In this database it currently ranks #5,708 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #15 among 1972 releases.

Worldwide gross
$19,726,490
Budget
$2,000,000
Gross minus budget
$17,726,490
ROI
9.86x
Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 12, 1972
Production
Weston Productions, Jobete Productions, Motown Productions
Countries
US

Related indexes

Browse related box office pages

Studio / production companyWeston Productions Release year chart1972 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartMusic

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 1972, Lady Sings the Blues is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Music title from Weston Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $19.7M, reported production budget is $2.0M, gross-minus-budget is $17.7M, ROI is 9.86x. For comparison, it currently sits #5,708 all-time in the current chart set and #15 among 1972 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.