Finally here comes the holiday season; you know what this means: “All I Want for Christmas Is You” will be blasting at maximum volume for maximum satisfaction soon enough on every radio station, television, or Spotify app.
Mariah Carey most certainly deserves her title of “Queen of Christmas,” for that reason and many more.
Mariah has had one of the biggest effects on Christmas music among almost any modern artist, but how much does she earn annually on the holiday? Her net worth generally as well?
Keep reading for some unexpected facts about the “Vision of Love” songwriter.
How much does Mariah make every Christmas?
After the Daily Mail reported in 2015 that Mariah’s instant-classic song made £376,000 annually (at current rates, it’s almost $400,000!), many began to wonder precisely how much money Mariah made every year since 1994. Fans were dubious about whether the number was accurate, though.
According to a 2014 New York Post story, “over 19 years — from 1994 to 2013 — the song made [Mariah] a total of $50 million in royalties. Calculating that annually, it comes out to be $3.8 million annually.
Though not stated, such numbers most certainly exceeded the Daily Mail’s numbers and were worldwide.As it happens, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” in the United States alone gave Mariah $60 million between 1994 and 2016, according to a 2017 study in The Economist, thereby averaging her annual income at around $2.6 million.
Not even including the U.K. royalties, the streaming plays, and more. Mariah went above and beyond in 2020 by additionally running Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special on Apple TV Plus. It was never revealed just how much special netted her.
What is Mariah Carey’s net worth?
Though Mariah’s revenue is just around Christmas, the sum she has brought in over her career is amazing. Celebrity Net Worth estimates Mariah’s value at over $320 million, a remarkable number credited not just to her music but also to her work as an actress and entrepreneur.
Mariah is, quite simply, among the most successful female music artists in history. She has sold more than 200 million records, has more No. 1 singles on her repertoire than any other female writer-producer on the U.S. music charts, and has been the recipient of several of the most prestigious industry honors.
Apart from her singing, Mariah Carey has worked on a line of shoes, handbags, jewelry, and fragrances as well as book authoring, The Meaning of Mariah Carey. Like her songs, Mariah’s book was a big hit, ranking number one New York Times bestseller and praised by both reviewers and fans alike.
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