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Mariah Carey is being sued over her iconic hit holiday song All I Want For Christmas Is You.
Another artist, Andy Stone, filed the lawsuit against the five-time Grammy winner, claiming copyright infringement 28 years after she released the Christmas jingle in 1994, according to TMZ.
Stone claims to have recorded a holiday-themed song, also titled All I Want For Christmas Is You, several years before Carey dropped her track.
Her version went on to top the charts in 26 countries and reportedly earn a whopping $60 million in royalties by 2017, according to The Economist.
Songs of the same name: Mariah Carey, 53, is being sued for copyright infringement over her holiday-themed song All I Want For Christmas Is You
Stone recorded his song, a country ballad, in Nashville in 1989 under the artist name, Vince Vance & The Valiants, featuring lead vocals from Lisa Burgess Stewart, otherwise known as Lisa Layne.
The track went on to chart on the Billboard Hot Country Songs on six separate occasions in the 1990s, and eventually had a music video to accompany it.
It would be about five years after Stone and his Vince Vance & The Valiants' release that Carey dropped All I Want For Christmas Is You as the lead single to her fourth studio album Merry Christmas in 1994,
