That’s evident in the makeup of our Halloween-spooky ranking of highest-paid dead celebrities, where nine musicians grace the list of 13, up from just six a year ago. That sale boosted the total earnings to $628 million last year, compared with $285 million in 2019, with the dips of non-musicians like Arnold Palmer canceling out the streaming gains. 3 | CHARLES SCHULZ: $38 millionDeceased: February 12, 2000Cause of death: CancerSnoopy’s creator continues to cash in around his Peanuts franchise’s 70th anniversary. Our annual list of the top-earning dead celebrities measures pretax income from October 1, 2018 through October 1, 2019. We compile our numbers with the help of data from Nielsen Music, IMDBPro and interviews with industry insiders.

Source: Forbes October 30, 2019 09:56 UTC