Mariah Carey’s Christmas season just got a little better thanks to a dismissed lawsuit that was filed against her.
According to legal documents obtained by Complex, a judge who dismissed a lawsuit against her over her hit song "All I Want For Christmas Is You" has ordered sanctions against its filers, Andy Stone and Troy Powers, arguing that it lacked merit and determined there was good reason to stop people from filing baseless lawsuits.
Carey was awarded $92,303.20 in sanctions according to the documents, and nearly $20,000 was ordered to be paid to other individuals who are a part of the case.
In 2023, Stone and Powers sued Carey and claimed that there were a lot of similarities between "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and their song of the same name that was allegedly recorded in 1989. In their lawsuit, Stone and Powers claim their version of the song received extensive airplay during the holiday season of 1993, and Carey’s version came out in 1994.
Their lawsuit was similar to a previous one that they filed in 2022 before it was dropped just five months later.
Carey’s recent legal victory comes days before Christmas, when "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is currently one of the biggest songs in the United States. Billboard reports that the track extended its previously set record with a 21st week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
In total, the track is on its 78th week on the Hot 100, surpassing Dua Lipa’s "Levitating" as the longest-charted song ever from a female artist.
