Every year, as Christmas approaches, many Christmas bops and jams re-enter the charts and take over the radio for a month, but one of these songs has a legacy that lives on today as one of the most well-known Christmas songs of all time, and that song is All I Want for Christmas is You. Each year, the song is always the most played and recognized the most on the radio, which brings to question: How much money does Mariah Carey make on average every year with this song, and in total ever since its release?

According to an article by the New York Post, from years 1994 to 2013, Mariah Carey has made an estimate of $50 million in royalties from the song, which estimates an average of $3.8 million dollars per year! Also, taking into amount the views she gets from the music video on Youtube, it has over 655 million views, which estimates to almost $15 million dollars. So while it is apparent she makes millions from this song every year, taking into account the numerous amount of FM and AM radio stations that play the song a certain amount of times per year, it is actually impossible to know the actual amount she makes from the song, but we have a fairly accurate representation of what it could be.

While we may never know how much she makes from this iconic Christmas jam, one thing’s sure for the future: she’ll keep up her annual Christmas bank deposit for years and years to come.