Dollars After Death: 12 Albums That Got Big Posthumous Sales Boosts

4:20 PM PST 12/6/2011 by Shirley Halperin, Sophie Schillaci

With "Lioness: Hidden Treasures" (out now), Amy Winehouse joins a small but illustrious group of artists -- Ray Charles, Michael Jackson and Kurt Cobain, among them -- who had new albums released within months of their death.

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