An unpublished Ed Sheeran played by mistake in front of the British justice

via Associated Press

Ed Sheeran, here arriving at his trial in London, March 8, 2022.

GREAT BRITAIN – The High Court in London was able to discover by mistake in preview a brief preview of an unreleased piece ofEd Sheeranmuch to the astonishment of the singer British sued for plagiarism for his tube Shape Of You.

“It’s a song I wrote last January. How did you get that?” the 31-year-old artist was surprised, turning to his lawyers on the third day of the trial, which opened last Friday in the British capital.

Ed Sheeran, British pop star, is accused by Sami Chokri and Ross O’Donoghue of being partly inspired by their title Oh Why for the melody of his planetary tube Shape Of Youthe best-selling title in the world in 2017. Accusations that the singer and his co-authors, Steven McCutcheon and John McDaid, reject.

Ian Mill, lawyer for Ed Sheeran, explained moments later that the unreleased track had been played “by mistake” on Steven McCutcheon’s computer, which “contains unreleased tracks”.

In 2017, Ed Sheeran was the world’s best-selling artist, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), with his third album Divide which includes the single Shape Of You.

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