"When David Bowie died on 10 January 2016, such was the scale of media coverage and public mourning that one would have presumed his music would be everywhere for ever, elevated as he was, to misquote Smash Hits, to the position of the People's Dame. It was briefly Starman reached No 18, and Space Oddity No 24 but then it wasn't."
"This was unsurprising given the enormous spike in interest there is in the immediate aftermath of a superstar's death. Yet he didn't appear in the Forbes list again until 2022, when he was at No 3 with earnings of $250m (195m) the highest-ranked musician that year but that was almost all attributable to the sale of his music publishing rights to Warner Chappell."
David Bowie died on 10 January 2016, producing an immediate but short-lived surge in chart positions and public interest. Bowie appeared on Forbes' posthumous rich list in 2016 and 2017 with estimated earnings of $10.5m and $9.5m, then reappeared in 2022 at No. 3 after the sale of his publishing rights to Warner Chappell, which accounted for most of that year's earnings. Without publishing revenue included, the estate is unlikely to return to the Forbes list unless it sells master recordings. Streaming metrics lag: Bowie has 22 million monthly Spotify listeners, only one track in the Billions Club ("Under Pressure"), and apparent difficulty courting younger listeners and social-platform traction.
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