Mariah Carey\u0027s hit holiday song All I Want For Christmas Is You is a gift that keeps on giving year after year.
, in 2021, plays and downloads of the song in the U.S. generated $1.36 million for Carey and her label, Sony Music.But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Billboard estimates Carey hauled in millions more outside of the U.S. pushing the track’s earning power to over $6 million.Of course, Carey doesn’t get all of the dough. The revenues from the song are split between her, the track’s co-writer Walter Afanasieff and Sony.crunched the numbers and figured that Carey takes home $2.
Carey’s holiday haul this year also includes revenue from concert appearances in Toronto and New York City this month, and a special airing on Paramount+.that she was initially cool to the idea of recording a Christmas album back in 1994, saying that she didn’t think it was the right fit for her at the time.
“It was very early in my career, and I thought it was a little early for me to be doing that, but I was like, ‘Well, I love Christmas.’ I had some very sad Christmases as a child, but I always try to find the bright light there.” The album’s most famous song was hatched, Carey continued, when she started plucking away at a keyboard at home.
“I didn’t want it to feel specific to any era, so we didn’t use sounds that were happening at that time. That way, it would feel classic and timeless.”to become the chart-topping juggernaut that it did.