Crazy: So much earn the writers on their julehits

All I Want For Christmas Is ... royalties.

There can be a lot of money in the to write a popular julehit, and especially if the song is being played on the radio every christmas.

The british music magazine The New Musical Express have researched the most popular christmas carols, and how much money writers earn royalties (honoraraftaler, red).

According to the media is the most grossed julehit ever 'Merry Xmas Everybody' (1973). The song is written by Slade frontman, Noddy Holder, which serves 512.000 british pound (4.261.68 crowns, red.) each year.

Julehittet has since sold 1.2 million records, and the song has reportedly been heard by 42 percent of the world's population, making it the world's most listened number.

Popduon Wham!, which consisted of George Michael and Andrew Ridheley, delivered a supremely julehit in 1984 with the single - 'Last Christmas'.

The immortal centrepiece of the christmas season was written by George Michael and generates an estimated 470.000 british pound (3.912.09 crowns, red) in royalties each year.

George Michael, as seen on the right of the picture, dead 25. december 2016. Photo: Phil Loftus

When the single was released in 1984, donated Wham! all the song's royalties to the families affected by the widespread famine in Ethiopia, which devastated the country from 1983-1985 Danish.

The american popprinsesse Mariah Carey wrote together with the american songwriter Walter Afanasieff megahittet 'All I Want For Christmas' in 1994.

the Duo to earn up to 376.000 british pound (3.129.67 crowns, red) in royalties each year. In connection with the live shows running the amount up in the staggering 50 million u.s. dollars (about 400 million crowns, red).

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the Song is still extremely popular, but in Japan, it has received cult status, and Mariah Carey appear frequently in the country with julehittet.