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Dec 27, 2022 · But research carried out by Channel 5 in 2016 did attempt to find the answer and concluded the top earning songs every year are as follows: “Merry Xmas Everybody” by Slade £1m (in royalties ...
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Dec 12, 2018 · Guesstimate yearly revenue: PRS note that Last Christmas was the third most-played Christmas song on UK radio between 2012 and 2016, and it had a huge boost in sales last year, making it near ...
- Slade – ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’
- Jona Lewie – ‘Stop The Cavalry’
- Boney M – ‘Mary’s Boy Child – OH My Lord’
- Shakin’ Stevens – ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’
- Wham! – ‘Last Christmas’
- Mariah Carey – ‘All I Want For Christmas’
- The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl – ‘Fairytale of New York’
Noddy Holder’s Christmas money-maker earns the Black Countryman a hell of a lot of pennies each and every year. The Performing Right Society estimated in 2013 that the Slade single generates £512,000 a year – with a sizable portion of that going to Holder’s co-songwriter Jim Lea, who wrote ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’’s chorus – while a Daily Mailarticle...
An unlikely Christmas hit due to its anti-war theme – Lewie himself has expressed some bemusement with its festive appropriation – ‘Stop The Cavalry’ has gone on to become a staple sound of Christmas morning: think where we’d be without its triumphant brass section or that wistful “wish I was at home for Christmas” line. According to the Mail,Lewie...
The royalties generated from the UK’s biggest-selling non-charity Christmas single (Wings’ cover of ‘Mull of Kintyre’ just isn’t a Yuletide song, sorry) should have ensured that its creators never needed to work again. But, in an interview with The Guardian in 2011,Boney M singer Liz Mitchell revealed that they’d been screwed over by a nasty circle...
The Welshman born Michael Barratt makes a tidy sum every December thanks to his chirpy seasonal hit ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ (wonder what it’s about?). While the singer pockets the windfall from the song’s many, many radio plays (£5,000 to £10,000), much of the estimated £130,000-worth of annual royalties actually goes to the writer of the song, ...
Following the sad passing of George Michael on Christmas Day 2016, sales of Wham!‘s ‘Last Christmas’ significantly increased on the Official Charts Company’s (OCC) previous estimate of 1.78 million copies sold. The Telegraphpreviously suggested in 2015 that royalties from the track could be worth up to £470,000 a year. Wham!’s festive hit originall...
Mariah Carey’s thumping take on Christmas – which, rather interestingly for the time, was written and recorded entirely on co-songwriter Walter Afanasieff’s computer – has enjoyed huge success across the world, with one figure quoting the song’s royalties at being an eye-watering $60 million (£48.4 million). In 2015, the Daily Mailestimated that Ca...
Apparently, this song came about as a result of a bet with Elvis Costello that The Poguescouldn’t write a Christmas song “that wouldn’t be slushy”. Well, the band only went and emphatically won that bet, creating one of the finest seasonal pop songs of modern times in the process. Shane MacGowan and the late, great Kirsty MacColl’s back and forth i...
Dec 18, 2023 · Wham! - Last Christmas £470,000 a year. The Pogues and Kirsty McColl - Fairytale of New York £400,000 a year. Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You £376,000 a year. Bing Crosby - White Christmas £328,000. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime £260,000. Wizzard - I Wish It Could be Christmas Everyday £200,000 a year
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All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey. £380k a year. 11. Mariah Carey co-wrote the hit in just 15 minutes but its Spotify streaming total stands at 758million. THE supertstar’s ...
Dec 23, 2019 · According to The Daily Mail, which compiled a list of the top Christmas song earners in 2015, Mariah Carey makes as much as £376,000 per year in royalties in the UK alone.
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Dec 25, 2021 · According to The Daily Mail, which compiled a list of the top Christmas song earners in 2015, Mariah Carey makes as much as £376,000 per year in royalties in the UK alone. John Lewie - Stop The ...
