A federal judge has dismissed a copyright lawsuit against Mariah Carey and her perennial holiday hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Country singer Vince Vance of the band Vince Vance & the Valiants alleged that Carey had copied the group’s 1988 Christmas tune of the same name. He was seeking 20 million dollars! Judge Mónica Ramírez Almadani rejected the allegations, citing evidence from a musicologist that the songs only shared “commonplace Christmas song cliches” found in many other jingles. During testimony, a New York University professor said that he found “at least 19 songs” that incorporated the same lyrical ideas that had been released before Vance’s track.
A lawsuit alleging that Mariah Carey's song 'All I Want for Christmas Is You' was too similar to another song of the same name has been dismissed. https://t.co/hQbi0ibbcr
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) March 21, 2025
