MUMBAI: Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, made an astonishing $275 million in the last year that has put him on top the Forbes list of top-earning dead celebrities. The take was in the form of the worldwide box-office haul of the Sony film This Is it.

Second on the list is Elvis Presley, who earned $60 million while at the third place is J.R.R. Tolkien, who sold a combined 500,000 copies of his The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit books in the last year alone even though he died 37 years ago.

Following is Peanuts creator Charles Schulz having earned $33 million while John Lennon is fifth at $17 million.

The Forbes list includes thirteen names.