(CNN) -- Elvis Presley may have left the building three decades ago, but he raked in more money last year than many living titans of the music industry
Singer Elvis Presley tops the Forbes list for the second year in a row, raking in $52 million last year.
Singer Elvis Presley tops the Forbes list for the second year in a row, raking in $52 million last year.
For the second year in a row, Presley topped the Forbes magazine's list of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities, hauling in $52 million last year.
In comparison, the very-much-alive Justin Timberlake earned $44 million while another superstar, Madonna, made $40 million, the magazine reported Tuesday.
The 30th anniversary of Presley's death boosted attendance and merchandise sales last year at his Memphis, Tennessee, home, Graceland.
A long list of licensing deals, such as a Presley show on satellite radio, added to the earnings.
The business magazine has been compiling its annual list of departed celebrities' earnings since 2001. Since 2003, the feature has coincided with Halloween.
That is why he is the King. His decaying, rotting corpse is making $52 mln - despite the recession. You could take all the talent of all the boy bands combined and multiply it by 4 and it would not equal the talent that Elvis left in one turd. This is your proof. Madonna looks like she is dead, but I am told she is a technically alive because she is a soul sucking vampire.
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