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Top-Earning Dead Musicians of the Year

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Forbes came out with itslist of the top-earning dead musicians of 2013. The postmortem performers who raked in the most money over the past yearare:

  1. Michael Jackson: $160 million
  2. Elvis Presley: $55 million
  3. Bob Marley: $18 million
  4. John Lennon: $12 million
  5. Jenni Rivera: $7 million

Near misses include RichardRogers, George Harrison, Tupac Shakur, Frank Sinatra, and the Notorious B.I.G.

See ZachO’Malley Greenburg, Top-Earning Dead Musicians2013, Forbes, Oct. 31, 2013.

Special thanks toJim Hillhouse (Professional Legal Marketing (PLM, Inc.)) for bringingthis article to my attention.