There are few musicians less controversial than Sir Paul McCartney, but his contribution to the Christmas canon has provoked strong disagreement.
On the one hand, Forbes reported that as of 2010, the song was making Sir Paul between $400,000 and $600,000 per year. On the other hand, some people really can not stand it. Esquire went so far as to name it the worst Christmas song of all time. (Steven Colbert feels that this was unfair, so he set out to write the actual worst Christmas song.)
