On the Song that Earned the Most Money

What song in your career has earnt you the most money?

That’s a hard one. Oh I know, though actually I didn’t make the money. Because it gets re-released every year and the money still goes to charity. It’s Last Christmas. It’s one of the biggest selling records never to have been number one. We did three million in the UK alone the year it came out and they’ve been releasing it ever since — occasionally it’s number one in Japan at Christmas and weird things like that. That’s the biggest earner. If something starts out as a charity record, it’s always a charity record. 4 or 5 of the tracks on the Greatest Hits were originally charity records. So hopefully if the album takes off in America, and then the Greatest Hits starts selling again, some of these charities can get like 100 grand a year just from being on there.

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