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#4,770 All-time worldwide
#125 2004 releases

Movie profile

Popular Music

2004 · 105 min · Solar Films

Comedy Drama
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $28.0M
Budget $2.2M
Gross minus budget $25.8M
ROI 12.59x

Domestic gross

$14.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$14.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$2.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Popular Music ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #4,770 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2004 releases #125 Release-year chart position of 249 titles Ranked against movies released in 2004. Primary genre #1,836 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

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Quick answer

How did Popular Music (2004) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Popular Music (2004) earned a reported $28.0M worldwide against a reported $2.2M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $25.8M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 12.59x. In this database it currently ranks #4,770 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #125 among 2004 releases.

Worldwide gross
$28,000,000
Budget
$2,224,000
Gross minus budget
$25,776,000
ROI
12.59x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnish-speaking part of Tornedalen in Swedish Laponia, close to the Finnish border. Their big dream is to become rock stars. In the present the now grown-up Matti feels guilt for the death of his drug-addicted rock star friend Niila.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Oct 1, 2004
Production
Solar Films, Happy End Filmproductions, Filmpool Nord
Countries
DK, FI, SE

Related indexes

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Studio / production companySolar Films Release year chart2004 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartDrama

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AI summary

Why this movie matters

Released in 2004, Popular Music is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Drama title from Solar Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $28.0M, reported production budget is $2.2M, gross-minus-budget is $25.8M, ROI is 12.59x. For comparison, it currently sits #4,770 all-time in the current chart set and #125 among 2004 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.