in what s expected to be one of the biggest all british heavyweight fights in boxing history. now on bbc news, musician ed sheeran speaks exclusively about his shape of you copyright lawsuit. # so you can keep me # inside the pocket of your ripped jeans.#. ed sheeran faced claims that his 2015 song photograph was strikingly similar to the song amazing by x factor winner matt cardle. sheeran settled out of court without admitting any guilt. by the time he d become the uk s leading male recording artist, he d released three of the top ten best selling albums of the last decade in the uk. # i m in love with your body.#. and his 2017 song shape of you, co written with his regular songwriting partnersjohnny mcdaid and steve mac, remains the most streamed song on spotify ever, with over three billion streams to date. but the song led to another lawsuit for sheeran. this time, the grime artist sami chokri claimed that sheeran had borrowed a refrain from chokri s song 0h why for shap
just to feel like it was our song again. so, yeah, i d say you probably agree with that as well, right? yeah. i think at the time, we took the best advice we could get and it was new. we d never been in that situation before and we were kind of bamboozled by the culture and what was going on. so we had to make a decision on it and we made a choice at the time that we can t change. but yes, i certainly feel some regret around it. and also, if you read the judgment, he sort of agreed with our point. anyway, read it. let s go on now to how you make music and the creative process and the degree to which this does or doesn t influence it, because you re very open about certain influences. no scrubs, for example, in the case of that song, you talk about it. me and johnny, we have countless songs that we ve done, like. on my second one, johnny started working on my second album, but there was a tune called nina, where we sampled a wretch 32 song and
and we ve now got to a point where we actually got all of the song again and we ve managed to get all of our bits back and again, not from a financial point of view, just to feel like it was our song again. so, yeah, i d say you probably agree with that as well, right? yeah. i think, at the time, we took the best advice we could get and it was new. we d never been in that situation before and we were kind of bamboozled by the culture and what was going on. so we had to make a decision on it and we made a choice at the time that we can t change. but yes, i certainly feel some regret around it. and also, if you read thejudgment, he sort of agreed with our point. anyway, read it. let s go on now to how you make music and the creative process and the degree to which this does or doesn t influence it, because you re very open about certain influences. no scrubs, for example, in the case of that song, you talk about it. me and johnny, we have countless songs that we ve done, like.
we could get and it was new. we d never been in that situation before and we were kind of bamboozled by the culture and what was going on. so we had to make a decision on it and we made a choice at the time that we can t change. but yes, i certainly feel some regret around it. and also, if you read thejudgment, he sort of agreed with our point. anyway, read it. let s go on now to how you make music and the creative process and the degree to which this does or doesn t influence it, because you re very open about certain influences. no scrubs, for example, in the case of that song, you talk about it. me and johnny, we have countless songs that we ve done, like. on my second one, johnny started working on my second album, but there was a tune called nina, where we sampled a wretch 32 song and instantly got that cleared. we sampled remembering jenny from buffy the vampire slayer and got that cleared. and on my song don t, there was a raphael saadiq we cleared with the lucy pearl song. i m