5 stars who admitted borrowing a bit of someone else鈥檚 song
Ed Sheeran has changed the writing credits of Shape Of You
He has credited the writers of TLC's No Scrubs on his huge hit.
If you thought Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You sounded oddly familiar, you weren't alone. He has updated the writing credits for his chart topper after many people pointed out it was a little similar to a '90s R&B classic.
There's only so many chords to go around, of course, so Ed's not the first artist to accidentally borrow a bit of someone else's song - and then have to make amends.
Here's what happened to Ed and how The Chainsmokers, Sam Smith and more found themselves in exactly the same position...
Ed Sheeran
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Shape Of You is the biggest hit of 2017 so far and has topped charts all over the world.
However, the profits of the track are now being shared six ways instead of four, with Kandi Burruss and Tameka Cottle having now been added to the list of credited songwriters on the song. Kandi and Tamkea wrote No Scrubs in 1999 and scored a string of US hits in their own girl group, .
Ed originally wrote Shape Of You with Steve Mac, Kevin Briggs and Johnny McDaid of
Here's No Scrubs - what do you think?
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Mark Ronson
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Six people were originally credited with writing gigantic 2014 hit Uptown Funk including Mark and , along with Nicholas Williams and Devon Gallaspy, who were credited for a sample of their track, 'All Gold Everything'.
However, that grew to 11 when 70s band and their producers were added to the list of writers, when the similarity between Uptown Funk and 1979 hit Oops Upside Your Head were recognised.
Sam Smith
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2014 hit Stay With Me was the song that made him a global superstar and which he originally wrote with and
But in early 2015 he was forced to add two extra credits - and - for borrowing parts of Tom's 1989 hit, I Won't Back Down.
There were no hard feelings from the eighties artist and the agreement to add the credits were done without a lawsuit.
"All my years of songwriting have shown me these things can happen," said Tom in a statement after being given a writing credit.
"A musical accident no more no less. In these times we live in this is hardly news."
Can you hear the similarities?
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The Chainsmokers
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Closer is biggest hit to date, but when it was first released in 2016, many people compared the track to 2005 hit, Over My Head (Cable Car).
The Chainsmokers were quick to act on the suggestions and approached The Fray immediately to add writing credits.
"Basically, they reached out to us and realized that they used, or reinterpreted, the song a bit, and they wanted to just work it out before the song came out,” Joe King from The Fray told ABC Radio in 2016.
"So there was no friction or tension. And I totally get it, it happens a lot, and unintentionally. So it’s all good."
This is the song The Chainsmokers accidentally borrowed from
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Robin Thicke
But not all end so amicably and and faced a lengthy lawsuit from family over their controversial 2013 hit.
In 2015, a court ordered the Blurred Lines writers to add Marvin Gaye to the credits and pay $5.3million to the soul star's children.
The similarity was found in the song's production, not the songwriting, which caused concern among writers that the ruling could prompt further lawsuits.
"If you sit down and play the songs on the piano, they’re not remotely the same song," songwriter Diane Warren told Associated Press after the court case.
"When you’re in an era when you’re being sued over production, it just opens the floodgates of something dangerous."
