One of the biggest highlights of Mariah Carey’s career thaws and overheats her bank account every holiday season.

“I love the holidays,” Carey told FOX 5 NY in 1994. “Every time Christmas comes around, I get ideas for different Christmas songs and I’ve kind of pushed them aside, pushed them away, and last year I just decided to do it. “

The result was the iconic 1994 song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — and the Grammy-winning singer has been cashing in on Christmas ever since.

Carey, 55, earned a whopping $60 million in royalties when the song was first released, Forbes and she now for the hit that is listed on Merry Christmasher fourth studio album.

While the entertainment artist gets rich with the tune every time the holidays roll around, she’s also become synonymous with the season, especially on streaming platforms. “All I Want for Christmas Is You” has amassed nearly 800 million views on YouTube and became the first holiday song on Spotify to surpass 2 billion plays, a feat Carey said. People was “beyond incredible”.

According to Spotify, the song has been ranked as the most streamed song on Christmas Day for the past eight years. Carey expressed her gratitude to “listeners around the world who have made the song part of their holiday tradition year after year.”

The entertainer told ABC News last year that while working on the song, she focused on capturing the joy of the season and its “timelessness,” asking herself, “What do I think about at Christmas? What do I love? What do I want What do I dream about?”

“And that’s how it started,” she said.