"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey is at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the tenth week in a row, making her the third artist and the first woman to have three songs stay at the top for ten weeks or more. In 1995 and 1996, "One Sweet Day" by Carey and Boyz II Men was number one for 16 weeks, and "We Belong Together" was number one for 14 weeks in 2005. Boyz II Men and Drake are the only other artists to have achieved the trifecta.
No wonder she wants to be the “Queen of Christmas”. In 2021, Mariah’s version of the song was played 1.7 million times in the U.S. According to Billboard those plays and downloads generated $1.36 million for Mariah and her label, Sony Music. And worldwide, you can double that. So they estimate her personal royalties to be about 1 and a half million.
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