Wednesday, January 13, 2016

David Bowie's fortune was estimated at £600m...and he will make more in death

David Bowie - whose fortune was estimated to be up to £600m when he died - will see his earnings escalate in death.
The singer, who passed away on Sunday aged 69 after a secret 18 month battle with cancer, is dominating the charts.

Bowie is set to score a posthumous No1 album - his 10th overall - with his latest record Blackstar, which was released just two days before his death.
His albums currently make up the Top 6 on the iTunes chart and he has 14 records within the Top 20.
His track Heroes is at No3 on the iTunes singles chart, followed by Starman at No5, Let's Dance at No6, Life on Mars at No7 and 2014's remastered version of Heroes at No10.
Spotify reported that streaming of David's songs increased by 2,822% yesterday, with Heroes his most popular track.
David earned his fortune thanks to 30 years of touring and shifting more than 140million records.
He sold more than £2.6million tickets for his 1983 Serious Moonlight and grossed the equivalent of £120million for his Glass Spider world tour in 1987.
He also increased his fortune by selling off properties across the globe, including his £7.2million mansion in London in 2009, and writing more than 700 songs.
In 1997, he sold the rights to future royalties from his back catalogue for the equivalent of around £63million.
Investors were left shortchanged when the bonds failed in 2004 thanks to a boom in online downloads and piracy.

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