Go to main content

Elvis Still Earning Well

May 15, 2017 | Other

When a person is catapulted to stratospheric celebrity status during their lifetime, not even death can halt their earning potential and ability to draw in revenue. On top of this, there are some whose demise has actually boosted their income with posthumous commemoration coming from all quarters. 
Elvis Presley is listed at #3 on the highest earning dead celebrities over the last 12 months. 

The Top 5: 
1 - Michael Jackson – $825 million
2 - Charles Schulz –  $48 million
3 - Elvis Presley - £27 million
4 - Bob Marley – $21 million                              
5 - David Bowie - £10.5 million

Far from diminishing over time, Elvis Presley’s potency as an artist and his uncanny ability to sell records since his death almost 40 years ago has remained a constant. This has led to $27 million of earnings for his estate in the last 12 months or so.

Presley’s latest albums, 'If I Can Dream' and the follow-up, 'The Wonder Of You', are a collection of orchestral reworkings of some of his greatest hits. Released toward the end of 2015 and 2016, this body of work spent time at the top of the charts in the United States and the United Kingdom and sold more than 2 million copies in the U.K. alone - most of these being physical rather than digital. Combined with the sales of his other albums, the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll amassed a huge amount of revenue in 2016. 

Elvis has clearly mastered the art of staying relevant even in the world of digital sales and music streaming sites and has even enjoyed success in other ventures, as shown by the popular Elvis slot at CasinoEuro.

Source:ElvisDayByDay.com
FM wrote on May 15, 2017
MJ $825 million, I highly doubt that
Brian Chatters wrote on May 16, 2017
MJ's earnings include $750 for the sale of his music publishing catalogue which includes the Beatles' tunes.
Larry_G wrote on May 17, 2017
Why are Elvis' earnings in GBR£'s? And if it's an earnings chart shouldn't asset sales be discounted? Just saying...