Mariah Carey has revealed that she mints $3 million yearly from royalties and streams for her quintessential Christmas track All I Want for Christmas Is You. The track came out in 1994, and per Fandomwire, up until 2017, it had accumulated a whopping $60 million.
As soon as the news broke out on X, users were quick to weigh in. Some were happy for her, while others could not help but notice that she makes money without even doing anything anymore. Here's what one user commented:
"She really found the infinite money glitch."
Others echoed the jokes:
"Imagine every January 1st, you go into the year knowing you are going to make a guaranteed $3m without lifting a finger…that’s so gangster," someone pointed out.
"This is the best example of a passive income I've seen today," another stated.
"That royalty deal is what every artist should aspire to sign," a third person chimed in.
"Maria doesn't need Santa, she gives herself a present every year," someone online quipped.
Many more had a lot to add:
"You know her and Rick Astley are technician one-hit wonders at this point. I couldn't tell you a single other song by either of them. And she was popular when I was growing up," one user tweeted.
"That song definitely makes more money than that. She has to be getting robbed by the label bruh," someone else posited.
"When people ask what she wants for Christmas, she can literally show them the receipts," another added.
"mariah carey’s great great grandkids are set for life," yet another joked.
A significant fraction of social media users, however, pointed out that the song is way too famous to simply be raking in $3 million. Some claimed she was getting robbed, while others posited it could be so much more than what she's letting on.
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Mariah Carey, also known as the Queen of Christmas, rakes in between $2.5 and $3 million every year in royalties on the hit track, as Forbes estimates. The Economist posits it's somewhere around $2.5–$2.6 million, while The New York Post claims it could be upwards of $3 million.
Per Forbes, the $3 million a year gets added to the “$60 million in royalties the singer had received when the song was first released nearly three decades ago in 1994."
Gary Trust, Billboard's managing director of charts and operations, told The Post:
"It’s the gift that keeps on giving — to her fans and to Mariah. It ranks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Holiday Songs chart. For every holiday song that’s ever been out, this is the biggest. The chart reflects that.”
Notably, Mariah Carey's hit track had to slowly scale the charts to reach the Hot 100. In the beginning, it couldn't even be considered for the same as it didn't come out as a standalone single; it was part of an album.
“And at the time, Hot 100 rules were such that you had to be a physically commercially available single to be on the Hot 100," Trust added.
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As of 2024, over 125 artists have rendered their takes on Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You, and has been streamed thousands of times since its inception. The track particularly booms around the holiday season, having clocked in on the Billboard Hot 100 nearly every year. As reported by Black Enterprise, the track has been streamed a whopping 1,872,843,557 times since it came out.
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