In 1984, Phil Collins gave away one of his unfinished songs. The demo made $10,000,000

Phil Collins gave a demo of his unfinished ballad “Against All Odds” to a film studio in 1984 after being asked to write a song while he was on tour. The story shows how a song he was not able to record at the time became a major hit and, in Collins’s words, was like giving away $10 million.

The article places the song amid Collins’s busy solo career alongside Genesis and the personal strain behind his debut album. It describes “Against All Odds” as a defining heartbreak song of the 1980s, though it gives no specific sales or earnings figures to support the $10 million comparison.