It is the most universal Christmas carol and a transgenerational anthem that is claimed as such every year with an increasing number of listeners. Time does not pass by the well-known ‘All I want for Christmas is you’, by Mariah Carey, what does pass are the dollars to the singer’s current account, which charges a penny for each reproduction.
The song has turned 27 in top form, although, paradoxically, until 2019 it did not manage to win the best-selling singles. That achievement made it the second Christmas song to lead the ranking after ‘The Chipmunk Song’ (1958), by The Chipmunk. Since then, both in 2020 and 2021, Billboard has just announced, no other song has managed to take the top spot.
The streaming fever has only contributed to improving the data. According to figures from the Chartmetric platform, so far the song has more than 975 million views on Spotify alone, and the trajectory indicates that it will exceed 1,000 million for New Year. To put these numbers in context, only between December 10 and 16 (MRC Data data collected by Billboard) the Christmas anthem registered 37.6 million broadcasts in the US, 26.1 million radio audience impressions and scored 7,400 downloads.
An inexhaustible gold mine
How does this translate into profitability? Without half measures, in a millionaire. Carey earns at least 1 cent every time the song is played. EVERY TIME THE SONG IS RE-PRO-DU-CE. In 2019, the amount amounted to 1.7 million dollars in this concept alone. And, just as views increase, so does income.
In 2020, the profit rose to 1.9 million and, in the absence of knowing how much the Christmas carol will collect this holiday season, everything indicates that the check will be even larger. And this only focusing on the last few years.
Since Carey first sang the song in 1994 (and was dubbed ‘the queen of Christmas’), the singer has earned more than $60 million from streams alone. An inexhaustible gold mine.
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