Mariah Carey is already an icon in the music industry. She is known for her whistle singing and her five-octave vocal range and her songs have become some of the most celebrated songs. One of her most popular songs is from her holiday album Merry Christmas is All I Want for Christmas Is You. With the holiday season coming up, the song is sure to become popular again
The song has become a Christmas staple and Carey has also released a revamped version of the song in 2019. In 2022, the song climbed the Billboard charts at the end of the year and Carey earned a significant amount of revenue from this re-emergence and relevance of the song during the festive season.
How Much Did Mariah Carey Earn With Her Christmas Song’s Festive Resurgence?
Every year around December, Mariah Carey‘s Christmas hit All I Want for Christmas Is You re-emerges and becomes popular owing to the festive season and atmosphere. The song managed to climb the Billboard charts every year and Carey earned a significant amount of revenue from her song’s resurgence at the end of 2021.
According to Billboard, through streaming and publishing the song, Carey and Sony earned an estimated $1.36 million in 2021. However, these numbers are just for the US. Globally, the song earned a whopping 6.16 million (including revenue and publishing). She earned $1.55 million from the $4.5 million revenue from the master recording version of the song.
However, as Billboard went deep into the nitty-gritty of her earnings, it seems she made less than this estimated figure. As she wrote the song with Walter Afanasieff, they are supposed to have an equal share of the song. This means Carey would get $830,000. If one considers a 10% administration fee, her earnings come around $747,000.
A 75-25% co-publishing deal would also mean that Carey’s earnings come to f$622,000 which is far off from the estimated figure. If she does not own the publishing rights to the song, she would earn only $415,000. In all these possible situations provided by Billboard, she ends up earning less than $1 million.
Mariah Carey’s Beloved Christmas Song Took Lesser Time to Write Than Other Songs
Mariah Carey’s Christmas hit All I Want for Christmas Is You is undoubtedly one of her biggest hits and continues to be popular and relevant every year during Christmas time. The rumor is that Carey took just 15 minutes to write the song and 2 hours to record it. Carey recalled how the song came to be and also commented on the popular rumor
Carey told Parade that she took some time to get the song recorded. While she did not give a specific time frame, she revealed that it was one of the quickest songs that she wrote. She said,
“I started writing that on a little DX7 or Casio keyboard that was in this little room in the house that I lived in at the time in Upstate New York lifetimes ago. Just writing down everything that I thought about.
We did take some time doing the record, because if you listen to all those background vocals and all that stuff, you can’t do it in five minutes. So, no, it wasn’t five minutes to get the whole record done. But it was quick considering I’ve taken longer on songs.”
Carey continues to receive all the love from fans every year and sees people celebrating Christmas with her song. The song proved to be her ultimate gift to people around the world.
