9
Just nine months after moving to New York City to pursue his music career, Dylan was signed to Columbia Records.
3
In addition to his Grammy wins, the singer has received other major awards in his career: the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, the U.S. Medal of Freedom in 2012 by President Barack Obama and the Nobel Prize in literature for creating “new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”
10
Dylan has won 10 Grammys, including three for his 1997 album Time Out of Mind, a project that many critics believed to be a return from a “long artistic slump.”
125,000,000
Throughout his career, Dylan recorded 40 studio albums, selling more than 125 million worldwide.
300,000,000
In 2020, Dylan sold the rights to his entire song catalog to Universal Music for an undisclosed fee; however, The New York Times claimed the deal could be worth more than $300 million.
11
The artist has been the subject of 11 documentaries, and has appeared as himself in 36 films.
600
In addition to being a talented singer himself, Dylan wrote over 600 songs that were recorded by over 2,000 artists all over the world, setting the standard for lyric composition.
84,000
Despite being a Woodstock resident at the time, the singer did not play at the 1969 festival because he received a better offer to headline at the Isle of Wight music festival instead, earning $84,000 to play, with members of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles in the audience.
100
Although slowing down his touring schedule, he has played roughly 100 gigs a year for the past 20 years.