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- ChiffX, on 01/19/2009, -0/+641. Kurt Cobain - 50 million
2. Elvis Presley - 42 million
3. Charles M. Schulz - 35 million
4. John Lennon - 24 million
5. Albert Einstein - 20 million
6. Andy Warhol - 19 million
7. Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) - 10 million
8. Ray Charles - 10 million
9. Marilyn Monroe - 8 million
10. Johnny Cash - 8 million
11. J.R.R. Tolkien - 7 million
12. George Harrison - 7 millon
13. Bob Marley - 7 million - pitchblack16, on 01/19/2009, -1/+32Did not think Cobain would be 1st.
- EdgarVerona, on 01/19/2009, -1/+24Buried as inaccurate. Everyone knows Courtney Love killed him.
- inactive, on 01/19/2009, -5/+22love Kurt but smells like teen spirit is getting played too much
- Jericho6, on 01/19/2009, -1/+17I think this is from 2006, so it may have changed in the last few years
- chadsmith729, on 01/19/2009, -2/+18Should be "Top Earning Dead Celebrities As Of October 20th 2006", yeah I guess the title is a bit wordy.
Here's others from the Archives:
2006:http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/20/tech-media_06dead ...
2007:http://www.forbes.com/home/business/2007/10/29/dea ...
2008:http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/27/dead-celebrity-ea ... - schavira, on 01/19/2009, -0/+13Even Kurt thought it was overplayed, he said he was embarrassed to play it live.
- FriedTurkey, on 01/19/2009, -1/+13Courtney Love can afford a lot of blow.
- Troy64, on 01/19/2009, -1/+12Nothing more depressing than a list of dead people who make more money than I do.
- inactive, on 01/19/2009, -0/+10It was overplayed 15 years ago and hasn't stopped. In Utero and Bleach are much better albums anyway.
- outoforder, on 01/19/2009, -1/+10burried for multiple pages and annoying ads.
- danwallace, on 01/19/2009, -0/+8Great input, Jen!
- thekingjames, on 01/19/2009, -1/+9I'd settle for being Top-Earning, alive and unknown.
Other than that there are some faces I'm surprised to see are not on the list, like Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morison and more.
Great story, too bad it's split into so many pages. - bluemonnggee, on 01/19/2009, -1/+9buried for the usual forbes style of only 1 person per page, and for the ad that came up instead of the second person, get with the program forbes.com
- slangmann, on 01/19/2009, -0/+71 page
http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/20/tech-media_06dead ... - steve9924, on 01/19/2009, -2/+9story is 2 years old....
- impei, on 01/19/2009, -0/+62008 list:
1. Elvis Presley $52 million
2. Charles M Schulz $33 million
3. Heath Ledger $20 million
4. Albert Einstein $18 million
5. Aaron Spelling $15 million
6. Dr Seuss (Theodor Geisel) $12 million
7. John Lennon $9 million
8. Andy Warhol $9 million
9. Marilyn Monroe $6.5 million
10. Steve McQueen $6 million
11. Paul Newman $5 Million
12. James Dean $5 millilon
13. Marvin Gaye $3.5 million - bruuks, on 01/19/2009, -1/+7burried. say no to slideshows.
- scar286, on 01/19/2009, -5/+10Mickey Rourke is right about Kurt Cobain.
- Kellster, on 01/19/2009, -1/+6How about Walt Disney? He's got to be worth more than Cobain in ANY year.
- zvarnell, on 01/19/2009, -0/+5...and Paul is dead.
- bluemonnggee, on 01/19/2009, -0/+5i mean the drugs didnt help though
- Sunderani, on 01/19/2009, -0/+4yeah it is from 2006... i also love how Courtney love sold the rights to the song to be played on CSI Miami. I am sure that is just what Kurt would have wanted. What a bitch
- Gr1nch, on 01/19/2009, -0/+4hes only getting 1/4th of the funds from the few records they hold. Thats not really that much in comparison to elvis or kurt cobain.
however, I'm surprised warhol is up there where he is. I grossly underestimated him. - KlogereEndGrim, on 01/19/2009, -1/+5And this is a prime example of why copyright law is flawed.
- sgtclydefr0g, on 01/19/2009, -1/+5Unplugged in New York.... an acoustic rendition of Nirvana's greatest hits along with performances along side the musicians that inspried them................ by far their greatest work. and no smells like teen spirit
- CyclonusRIP, on 01/20/2009, -0/+4I think he's getting dugg down because the list is annual not total earnings since time of death.
- lovek, on 01/19/2009, -1/+5I enjoy lists of things. Dugg.
- grungemusic3001, on 01/19/2009, -0/+4I've got to agree man. Cobain is rolling over in his grave and giving her the finger as we speak! Allowing his song to play on CSI Miami (of all things) is the last thing he would have ever wanted to happen to his music.
- ganjamonsta, on 01/19/2009, -0/+3guess it is a recession. even the dead people aren't making as much money.
- danwallace, on 01/19/2009, -2/+5Turn the radio off, genius.
- MeccaOfManhood, on 01/19/2009, -0/+3This list is 2 years old. Elvis is the top earner of 2008.
http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/27/dead-celebrity-ea ... - meean, on 01/19/2009, -3/+6ELVIS IS STILL ALIVE
- grungemusic3001, on 01/19/2009, -0/+3she could have paid someone to do it? (I don't personally think so, but its a caveat to your argument)
- carolinaws, on 01/19/2009, -0/+3Buried for being a Forbes slideshow.
- oridzinal, on 01/19/2009, -2/+4Well, he is a legend!
- Troy64, on 01/20/2009, -0/+2He is on the 2008 list. The list from this article is from 2006.
Here is the 2008 list. http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/27/dead-celebrity-ea ... - sgtclydefr0g, on 01/19/2009, -2/+4Kurt was underrated alive, and now overrated after death
- SwankRock3000, on 01/20/2009, -0/+2I think you mean Randy "The Ram" Robinson.
- Liverpools9, on 01/19/2009, -5/+7No Tupac? Wasn't there more cd's since his death, than before?
EDIT:
15M USD since his death apparently: http://filthyrag.com/blog/2008/08/tupac-earns-15-m ...
That would make him #7 on this list! - maloconn, on 01/20/2009, -0/+2Jesus didn't make the list? WTF?
- inactive, on 01/19/2009, -1/+3You think, Courtney is a ***** at everything she does, I seriously doubt she could master such a plan and even hold the shotgun correctly without blowing her own face off.
- defcon11, on 01/19/2009, -0/+2On an island! Laughin at Suge Knight!
- inactive, on 01/19/2009, -1/+3 Courtney Love said in Heeb magazine that she doesn't see a lot of the money and it all goes to a bunch of Jewish Lawyers and industry guys.
"Every time you buy a Nirvana record, part of that money is not going to Kurt's child, or to me, it's going to a handful of Jew loan officers, Jew private banks, it's going to lawyers who are also bankers, it's going to sixty PAs."
http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/171 - Czaja, on 01/19/2009, -0/+2Perhaps she should've thought it out more before handing him a shotgun.
- grungemusic3001, on 01/19/2009, -0/+2didn't know she was an anti-semite
edit: read the article...she's as crazy as ever - wonkavsn, on 01/19/2009, -0/+2Kurt Cobain selling cars would be tremendously disrespectful to his memory.
- MasonZombie, on 01/20/2009, -0/+2Lists should not go from most to least. That ruins the fun.
- grungemusic3001, on 01/19/2009, -0/+1I buried you!
- slangmann, on 01/21/2009, -0/+1I cant really tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but if you are not, all I did was hit the print button.
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