MARIAH Carey could buy almost 200 Ryedale homes with profits from her best-selling holiday song, ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You.’

Carey’s iconic tune is in the UK Singles Charts once again this year, after first claiming the top spot in 2020. With 10.8 million streams recorded in the latest cycle by the Official Charts Company, All I Want For Christmas Is You overtook Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ this week.

Although written in just 15 minutes and recorded by Carey nearly 30 years ago, the song earned over £48 million in royalties up to 2016, according to the Economist.

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And making an estimated £2 million a year since then – 87 times the median annual salary of £23,600 in Ryedale – the song has earned about £61 million up to and including this year.

Carey, could purchase about 195 houses in Ryedale with the song's estimated earnings – with recent Land Registry figures showing the average house price in the area was £311,000 in October.

The song was written and produced by Carey and Walter Afanasief and was released as a lead single from the album in 1994. 

Since then, it has sold over 10 million copies and has been streamed over 1.3 billion times on Spotify.

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