Mariah Carey's 'All I want for Christmas is you' cop


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Singer Mariah Carey is no longer being sued for copyright infringement over her hit song All I Want for Christmas is You, after country singer Andy Stone dropped his lawsuit on Monday.

Songwriter Mr Stone sued the popstar in June, claiming he co-wrote a tune with the same call five years earlier.

He instructed the court he would dismiss the case – however legally he may want to refile it.

A ought to-have on any Christmas playlist, Ms Carey’s mega-hit is one of the first-class regarded Christmas statistics of all time.

Mr Stone, who performs underneath the name Vince Vance with the band Vince Vance and the Valiants, previously filed the lawsuit in a New Orleans federal court docket – in which he also filed to have the case dismissed.

He become claiming at the least $20m (£16m) in damages, arguing that Ms Carey exploited his “recognition” and “fashion”.

Despite sharing a name, the two songs are musically one-of-a-kind, but Mr Stone claimed that Ms Carey did now not ask for permission to use the track call and had earned “undeserved profits” from it.

It isn’t uncommon for distinct songs to have the identical call, and the USA Copyright Office lists 177 entries on its internet site underneath the identify All I Want for Christmas is You.

Since performing at the album Merry Christmas in 1994, the song has crowned the charts in several nations and by 2017 had reportedly earned Ms Carey greater than $60m (£48m) in royalties.

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It has been streamed over one thousand million instances on Spotify.

In a recent memoir, Ms Carey admitted to composing “maximum of the track on a cheap little Casio keyboard”.


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