Top earning DEAD celebrities
 

http://biz.yahoo.com/weekend/deadcelebs_1.html

1. Elvis Presley
2. Charles Schulz
3. J.R.R. Tolkien
4. John Lennon
5. Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel
6. Marilyn Monroe
7. George Harrison
8. Irving Berlin
9. Bob Marley
10. Richard Rogers

What about 2pac? :1orglaugh

Someday I hope to be a top earning dead celeb.

He's getting 5 mill a year or so . I think elvis makes 63

Sounds like he should have went with CMG Worldwide. Sounds like that company has definitely got their shit together.

sucks to make so much more in death.

What about Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra??

Shit! Elvis is dead?? :eek2 :Oh crap

I thought for sure he would be on that list with all the movies and DVD's he has released since he was killed

And Hendrix?

Could be that the top ones have better organised companies promoting them.

Hendrix
http://www.forbes.com/2004/10/25/cx_...btears_12.html

Sinatra
http://www.forbes.com/2004/10/25/cx_...btears_20.html

Hendrix missed by 1 million. Sinatra is of a very old generation (the parents of those who are now middle-aged) so his stuff won't sell the same. The same thing will happen to Elvis as the kids today don't know who he is. Just a cycle. Tupac was a thug so he can't be marketed to middle aged buyers, most of whom detest hiphop. The current teen and young adult generation know him and have buying power which is why he missed by 2 million.