It’s not holiday season yet, but a celebration for Mariah Carey is in order after a lawsuit alleging that her song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” had copied another of the same name was dismissed.

U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani ruled Wednesday in a Los Angeles court that there was not enough evidence to prove that Carey’s song had infringed on a 1989 country song of the same name. Songwriters Andy Stone, whose stage name is Vince Vance, and Troy Powers filed the suit in November 2023.

The duo alleged that Carey’s 1994 song required a license of their track and a songwriting credit, and they were seeking $20 million.

The documents show that a musicologist deemed the songs weren’t that similar, and many of the “commonplace Christmas song clichés” used in both tracks had been around well before either song was written.

That has to be a relief for Carey. The holiday season has become her signature time of year, with the singer appearing annually at Christmas tree lightings, such as New York City’s storied Rockefeller Center event, and taking her festive performances on the road.

In December, she marked the 30th anniversary of her classic holiday album Merry Christmas, which includes “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” While it includes her covers of songs such as “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” “Silent Night,” and “Joy to the World,” the real star is her song that ends up on the charts again each year. As of last December, Carey’s Merry Christmas has sold 18 million copies, making it one of the biggest holiday albums of all time.

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Carey wasn’t interested in making a holiday album when the opportunity first came up, she told EW in 2019. She was only a few years into her professional career, but she did it anyway.

“I didn’t feel, from a strategic point of view, that it was time to do something like that,” Carey said. “As much as I love Christmas, I thought that the record company was off. Obviously, I couldn’t have been more wrong.”