There’s a sweetness, a clarity, and a purity to it. “But it’s the feeling I wanted the song to capture. “I actually did bang out most of the song on a cheap little Casio keyboard,” she wrote. In her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, she recalled her songwriting process for the hit, which she said was not originally inspired by Christmas. It has been streamed 1bn times on Spotify. The Queen of Christmas creates a fabulous and star-studded spectacular to make the whole world merry Holiday 2020 43 min. Since its release, Carey’s song has topped the charts in multiple countries and has reportedly earned the singer more than $60m in royalties. Faced with a holiday cheer crisis, the North Pole knows there's only one person who can save the day: Santa's great friend Mariah Carey. The corporation also reports that there are 177 entries listed with the United States Copyright Office under the name All I Want for Christmas Is You. The complaint states that Stone’s lawyers first got in touch with Carey and her co-defendants last year, reports the BBC, but were “unable to come to any agreement”. Merry Christmas, which was released by Columbia Records on 1 November 1994, became the best-selling US Christmas album of all time, selling more than 15m copies worldwide. The documents also allege that Carey and Afanasieff committed “acts of unjust enrichment by the unauthorised appropriation of plaintiff’s work and the goodwill associated therewith”.
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With Mariah Carey, Kirk Franklin, Khalid, Khasan Brailsford. It had “caused confusion”, the documents added. Mariah Carey hit with 20 million copyright lawsuit over All I Want for Christmas Is You. Mariahs Christmas: The Magic Continues: Directed by Joseph Kahn. The two songs have different lyrics and different melodies.īut Stone, whose band Vince Vance and the Valiants recorded and released their song in 1989, has accused Carey and Afanasieff of behaving in a manner that was “designed to exploit the popularity and unique style” of his song, according to court documents obtained by PA Media. The 53-year-old US singer and her co-writer Walter Afanasieff are named in a lawsuit brought by the songwriter Andy Stone claiming that Carey and her collaborators “knowingly, wilfully, and intentionally engaged in a campaign” to infringe Stone’s copyright for the song.Īccording to legal documents filed at the US district court in the eastern district of Louisiana, Stone claims that he co-wrote a song with the same name and did not give permission for it to be used.
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