Mariah Carey and her All I Want for Christmas is You: How much does she earn every Christmas?

At some point this Christmas Eve or this Christmas, All I Want for Christmas is You will play, Mariah Carey’s multi-selling song, which swells Mariah Carey’s (not at all slim) bank account year after year.

With the same punctuality as every year, Mariah Carey appears every November 1st to dust off the Christmas decorations and relive the Christmas spirit. In this way, thanks to your advice, millions of people around the world begin to set up their trees and begin to think about the menu we will eat this evening.

And it equally kicks off a huge business that culminates on Christmas Eve and continues until Christmas. That is, since November we started listening to the song, but in these two days we managed to replicate it again and again.

This 2023 Mariah Carey has decided to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas period in a rather original way. Through a video, the singer showed how, at midnight on October 31, a safe opens revealing her inside a block of ice.

A group of people dressed in typical Halloween costumes defrost it using a hairdryer. And with this precious help, the singer gains enough strength to exclaim her famous “it’s time!” and thus free herself from the ice that has kept her frozen since the end of last Christmas.

Now without the restrictions of the ice, Carey can sing her famous classic All I Want For Christmas Is You together with another group of people, who this time are dressed in Christmas motifs, surrounded by snow and visibly happy for the arrival of the Christmas.

Thus, the American interpreter, who at the time did not like to sing this hymn, confirms once again that it is the queen of Christmasa title that her fans gave her and which she managed to maintain with grace and humor.

How much money does the song generate?

Every end of the year, All I want for Christmas is you Little by little it positions itself at the top of the international charts until reaching its peak during the Christmas period.

As of 2021, the song has garnered 1.747 million views in the United States, according to Illuminate Analytics.

Of the total, 48,000 were track downloads, 200 million were from on-demand audio streams, 52.5 million were from on-demand video streams, and 24 million were from scheduled streams.

Together, these streams and downloads generated $1.36 million for Carey and her label, Sony Music, in 2021 alone, according to Billboard estimates.

Billboard also considered that in 2021 the song grossed almost 4.5 million, while the publishing rights generated another 1.66 million. Together, that adds up to a whopping $6.16 million in global revenue and publishing royalties.

Of that income, Billboard suggested that Carey’s royalties amounted to $1.55 million, which would give Sony $2.95 million.

Two authors for an annual fortune

It must be taken into account in these numbers that the song was composed by two people and that, if each corresponded to 50 percent of the income, the sum that Carey would have received just for the publication of the song would be 830 thousand.

It’s worth remembering All I want for Christmas is you was written by Carey and Walter Afanasieff in 1994 and released by Columbia Records. It belongs to the artist’s fourth studio album, Merry Christmas.

And year after year there is singing and dancing on Christmas tables all over the world, while Mariah Carey’s bank account increases.