Singer Mariah Carey has left the demand for 20 million dollars that was filed in 2023 by singer -songwriter Vince Vance and also artist Troy Powers for the rights of her Christmas success All I Want For Christmas Is You.
Vance then said that the pop star had copied her name of 1989, something that magistrate Mónica Ramírez Almadani rejected last Wednesday in California. Faced with the allegations of the musician, the sentence ensures that the two songs were “different” and that they shared “usual clichés of the Christmas songs”, according to tests by the musicologist Lawrence Ferrara.
Ramírez also alleges that Andy Stone, a real name of Vince Vance, has not fulfilled his share of the evidence that showed that his song was copied, and has imposed sanctions to cover part or all of the fees of Carey’s lawyers for “incurring unnecessary expenses responding to frivolous legal arguments and de facto allegations without foundation”.
The history of the most international carol
The lawsuit filed three years ago by Stone and Powers claimed that they had written the song of the same name in the late 80s and assured that, thanks to the success that their theme had achieved in 1993, Carey “undoubtedly had access” to it. Previously, Stone had filed another lawsuit against Carey and his co -author, Walter Afanasieff, who was dismissed just five months later.
The American pop star launched All I Want for Christmas is You In 1994 as part of his Christmas music album Under the Mistletoewith a relatively modest success when reaching 12 in the radio category of songs of all genres of the magazine Billboard.
It was years later, with the flowering of the platforms of streamingwhen the song took strength to position itself year after year in the first numbers of the most important music classifications. Since 2019, Carey’s theme All I Want for Christmas Is You Head the Billboard Hot 100 list every Christmas season.