Mariah Carey sings again this year about wanting only one thing for Christmas: you! Her hit All I Want For Christmas Is You has been a hit on pre-Christmas broadcasts on all kinds of radio stations around the world for the third decade. The American star certainly can’t complain. He earns millions every year from licensing revenue just for this hit.
In addition, Mariah began her holiday concert series Christmas Time in Las Vegas, treating the performance as a spectacular show full of costumes, lights and Christmas magic. During the evening, she appeared, for example, in a tight dress with red and white stripes or in a gold sequined mini dress. For the finale, when she sings the iconic hit All I Want for Christmas Is You, she chose a red and white overall and was accompanied on stage by marching tin soldiers and Santa Claus.
This very song, released in 1994, is the most streamed Christmas hit in history. It brings in an estimated $2.5 million to $4 million in licensing revenue each year, and by 2023, she’s already earned more than $100 million from this hit alone.
Carey recalled that she began writing the song on a small Casio keyboard piano. “My goal was to create something timeless so that it doesn’t feel like the nineties,” she stated. Still, she is still surprised by the response the song has. But she believes that people liked her because of her honesty.I really, really love Christmas. It’s not fake“, he adds.
