Nipsey Hussle Lands on 'Forbes'List of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities
Nipsey Hussle Lands on 'Forbes'List of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities
Nipsey Hussle Lands on 'Forbes' List of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities.
‘Forbes’ recently released a list of the top-earning dead celebrities of 2019.
The list features 13 well-known celebrities who have continued to earn money even in their passing.
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Nipsey Hussle, who was murdered in March of 2019, is the most recently deceased name on the list.
He came in at no.
10, with $11 million earned in 2019 from 1.85 billion streams of his music.
Hussle is just $1 million shy of Prince’s $12 million earnings, which were earned through 320,000 physical unit sales and 500 million on-demand streams. .
He is however in the top three most-streamed of anyone, living or dead, having brought in more money posthumously this year than any year he was alive.
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XXXTentacion is also on the list at the no.
11 spot, with $10 million earned from his status as the most-streamed dead celebrity in the United States.
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Michael Jackson, who pulled in $60 million in 2019, is at the top of the list for the seventh consecutive year.