All I Want for Christmas is You earns Mariah Carey about $2.5m a year, it has been estimated
(Picture: Mariah Carey)It takes a lot of luck and talent to make a Christmas anthem even though the public quickly tires of hearing the songs over tinny grocery store speakers all season.
Despite many failed attempts at winter classics (The Killers’ Don’t Shoot Me Santa has some spoken word sections that will drain any Christmas spirit you had left) some choruses return to the charts year after year.
