Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey has previously claimed that she wrote her hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” on her Casio keyboard as a child — but her former co-producer ...

“We were holed up in this beautiful home that they were renting, and it was the summertime and there was a piano. I’d hit the ball to her, she hits it back to me,” he said. She doesn’t know a diminished chord from a minor seventh chord to a major seventh chord,” Afanasieff claimed. “I’ve studied music, I have degrees in music. “So to claim that she wrote a very complicated chord-structured song with her finger on a Casio keyboard when she was a little girl, it’s kind of a tall tale,” he added on the podcast. “She doesn’t play anything, she doesn’t play keyboard or piano.

Her co-writer on, and producer of, the smash festive hit Walter Afanasieff, 64, poured scepticism on the singer's claim she wrote the song as a child on her ...

'She doesn't know chord changes and music theory or anything like that,' the music producer claimed about Carey.

Since Carey and Afanasieff were co-writers on the song, their even cut is approximately $830,000 each —$747,000 if a 10 percent publishing administration fee is ...

In 2010, Carey re-recorded the song for her second holiday album, Merry Christmas II You, and again as a duet with Justin Bieber for his 2011 album Under the Mistletoe. On writing the song, Carey remembers the lyrics coming to her while she was in Upstate New York. Globally, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” pulled in 823 million streams and 94,000 downloads in 2021 alone. Released on Carey’s 1994 album Merry Christmas, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” first reentered the Hot 100 top 10 (at No. Based on the 2021 figures, Carey pulled in an estimated $2.4 million in 2021 for the hit. The song pulls in an estimated $6.1 million per year, [according to a recent report](https://www.billboard.com/pro/how-much-mariah-carey-make-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you/), from combined publishing and master recording revenues.

No jingle bells here. Mariah Carey was slammed by her “All I Want for Christmas Is You” song cowriter, Walter Afanasieff, who claimed she took all the ...

No jingle bells here. Mariah Carey was slammed by her “All I Want for Christmas Is You” song cowriter, Walter Afanasieff, who claimed she took all the ...