Mariah’s Christmas album is known for featuring the song “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which is one of the best-selling and most profitable singles of all time, selling over 16 million copies worldwide.
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The song has been featured in dozens of Christmas movies and is a huge hit on streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora during the holidays.
The song, which reportedly took only 15 minutes to write, earns Mariah and producer Walter Afanasieff an estimated $600,000 in royalties per year. To date, the song has generated more than $60 million in gross royalties.
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It is widely assumed that she earns around £380,000 per year from the song just in the UK. The song has reached number one in multiple countries around the world, including the United States in 2019 and the United Kingdom in 2020, and it regularly re-enters Billboard’s Holiday 100 Chart.
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