It's time.

Nearly 30 years after Mariah Carey released all I want for Christmas is you.

The five-time Grammy Award winner is still reaping the benefits of the instant Christmas classic.

Billboard reported last year, Carrie grossed $1.55 million in annual recording royalties

from each time the song's master recording is played or sold.

Plus as much as $830,000 in publishing royalties before fees for the use of the music. Carrie pulls in an estimated millions of dollars in royalties each year off the holiday

anthem and launches an annual holiday tour around the song, called Merry Christmas One

and All.

The tour runs between November 15th and December 17th this year.

All I Want for Christmas is You is the highest charting holiday single by a solo artist

on the Billboard US Hot 100, according to Guinness World Records.

The song, which was released in 1994, also became the first holiday single, Certified Diamond

by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2021.

Cary, Sony Music, and All I Want for Christmas is You Co-writer Walter

Oftinaseaf were named in a $20 million copyright infringement lawsuit last year by songwriter

Andy Stone, who claimed defendants made a derivative version of Stone's 1989 song by the same

name, which was released under the artist's name, Vince Vance and the Valiance.

Stone's attorneys voluntarily dismissed the suit last November, but filed another lawsuit

in November of 2023.

Carrie's legal team has not commented on the recent lawsuit.

All I want for Christmas as you has been covered by dozens of artists,

including Michael Buble, Golly Parton,

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