Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" has made her over $80 million total since 1994. The song hits Billboard's top 10 every December, generating around $17.5 million in a single holiday season through streaming, radio, and licensing deals.
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1994
Eight times
More than $80 million
About $17.5 million
December 21, 2022
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How much money does Mariah Carey actually make every year at Christmas? All I Want for Christmas was recorded in 94, but it's hit the number one Billboard charts eight times since then. Carrie earns like two and a half million bucks every year just for this song. She's made more than 80 million from it to date. But let's try to guess what she'll make this year. 2.5 mil from All I Want for Christmas, 1 million from royalties on that song, 3 million for live performances during Christmas, 1 million from her Christmas specials, 5 million from her sold out Madison Square Garden show, plus another 3 million for streaming rights, plus another 2 million for CBS TV rights. That's about 17 and a half million bucks. And a lot of those numbers were from 2016 or 2020. What's the key to all this? She created once she earned continuously. When she saw a huge hit, she created a satellite strategy around it where she owned the entire niche. And that niche returns every year. Hundreds of millions of dollars are made and she's like Santa. She can just go chill all year and then earn during the.