Of course, it’s not a terrible take for a single day – and Carey isn’t exactly short of cash: indeed, she is sitting at an estimated net worth of over half a billion dollars. But do remember that she is one of the biggest artists of all time, this is one of the most iconic songs ever, and Christmas is the only time of year when it can hit these kind of numbers.

Imagine, then, how little money is being made by all those independent artists trying to break into the music industry. It goes some way towards explaining why the likes of Kabir Sehgal and Taylor Swift have been so vehemently against Spotify in the past.

“I didn’t like the way it felt,” Swift previously told TIME. “I think there should be an inherent value placed on art.”

She added: “Everybody’s complaining about how music sales are shrinking, but nobody’s changing the way they’re doing things. They keep running towards streaming, which is, for the most part, what has been shrinking the numbers of paid album sales…

“On Spotify, they don’t have any settings, or any kind of qualifications for who gets what music. I think that people should feel that there is a value to what musicians have created, and that’s that.”

This is how much Mariah Carey earned on Spotify after that record-breaking day