10 Insane Movie Box-Office Records That Will Probably Never Be Broken

10. Highest Grossing Movie To Never Hit Number One

Current Record Holder: Sing ($269,980,980 - at the time of writing)

Sing's U.S. domestic gross of over $265 million is the largest that any movie has ever achieved without reaching the number one spot, at any point throughout its run.

To put that figure into perspective, it's currently the tenth-highest of 2016 (beating out the likes of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, Doctor Strange and Moana) and accounts for almost half of Sing's total worldwide gross.

But, surprisingly, the highest that the film ever placed was number two. It didn't help that it opened directly opposite Rogue One, but for a film to make so much money and never reach number one is incredibly rare.

The previous record-holder was My Big Fat Greek Wedding back in 2002, with $241.4 million. Sing broke a record that was fifteen years old, and that lengthy time gap does indicate how difficult this will be to beat, and how rare movies that are capable of doing it can be.

Most movies don't even make it past $200 million domestically (only 179, in history, have surpassed that figure), and the ones that do often rely on a huge marketing push or a franchise name in order to do so, and both those things virtually guarantee at least one number one placement.

So for Sing to make so much money with a huge marketing push and a prolific studio behind it, but not hit number one, was a stroke of... luck? Call it what you will, but it'll certainly prove tough to beat.