Michael Jackson: More bankable after death

King of Pop Michael Jackson proved to be more profitable dead than alive. As records from information and sales tracking system for music, Nielsen Soundscan, proved that in the past five years after his death, he has sold 13.228 million albums, compared to the 13.152 million that he sold from 1996 to 2008—13 years before he died.

In the last five years prior to his death from 2004 to 2008, Jackson sold a combined total of 3.934 million albums, less than 30 percent of his sales posthumous.