George Michael made an eye-watering £55,000 a day beyond the grave in 2023.
The Wham hitmaker’s company Nobby’s Hobbies Holding Limited Account filed their accounts on Monday, with latest figures revealing it made a staggering £20million pre-tax profit.
George passed away on December 25 in 2016. The singer died aged 53 from natural causes, stemming from dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and a fatty liver.
Earnings rolled in the period of 12 months ending in March 2023 with £20.6million in publishing income, £2.5million in record royalties and an extra £600,000, reports The Sun.
George’s company made a gross turnover of £23,777,223 in 2023 – this is nearly £2million more than 2022 figures of £21,942,692.
George Michael made an eye-watering £55,000 a day beyond the grave in 2023
The earnings come before Wham! scored the Christmas number one with the single Last Christmas. The 1984 perennial favourite, penned by George hit the top of the charts
The earnings come before Wham! scored the Christmas number one with the single Last Christmas.
The 1984 perennial favourite, penned by George, topped the charts in the past, but never in the last week before Christmas.
It was denied the top spot in the year of its release by Band Aid’s barnstorming Do They Know It’s Christmas?
A documentary on the band, by bandmember Andrew Ridgeley, was released on Netflix in June to mark their 40th anniversary.
Fans said they were left with ‘goosebumps’ after watching the ‘beautiful’ documentary which featured a wealth of unseen material.
One of its producers, Simon Halfon, says his team spent over two years digging for footage and audio.
After Wham! made number one, Andrew said George would be ‘beside himself’ to know that Last Christmas finally got the Christmas number one.
Upon receiving the news, Andrew, 60, remarked that he and his bandmate – whom he nicknamed Yog – had always measured their success in Wham! by chart positions and how it had been such a ‘disappointment’ to them both when it stalled at number two.
A documentary on the band, by bandmember Andrew Ridgeley, was released on Netflix in June to mark their 40th anniversary
Andrew shot to fame alongisde George (right) as part of pop duo Wham! in the 1980s, but their festive classic had never bagged the Christmas number one until now
He told Official Charts: ‘George would be beside himself after all of these years to finally obtain.
‘Yog and I perceived music largely in the sense of the Official Charts. We always contextualised our success by our chart success.
‘It was a huge disappointment to us both when it didn’t reach No1 because in our opinion, it was nailed on.
‘Had it not been for Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? it probably would have been No1. ‘
Andrew went on to add that the new feat will be the ‘crowning glory’ for the 1980s duo as he noted the song was always intended to be number one in the first place.
He said: ‘It’ll mean a lot to Wham!’s legacy, it’s the crowning glory. Last Christmas was conceived as a Christmas No1. Lofty ambitions, but Yog set lofty ambitions for himself as a songwriter.’
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