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
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 sorry, i m trying to think now, but basically any time i ve gone, oh, yeah, no, that obviously i ve taken influence from that, we go and clear it because why would you want to go to court? why on earth would you try and hide it? it s way better to just go in with a clean heart and. and for people who don t understand the music business, along with that acknowledgement comes some sharing of the money, doesn t it? is that the way it works, that you divide up the proceeds if it is a big hit or.? yeah, i don t know that we necessarily think about it monetarily, but there s certainly a credit and a percentage. which is also.
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
way down to miami. steve: congratulations. so you want to go to washington. what s your platform? obviously having talked to you before, you are out to drain the swamp, right? that s right. i mean, have you looked at congress lately? in the news we see that they re getting nothing done. they are a house of cards that is tumbling. i mean, healthcare reform they couldn t get done. immigration they can t get done. they are not working with the president, which means we need to put new people in, we need to vote fresh blood. in and we need to really make america great again where people are going to work for the aims of the president, not lobbyists, not washington elitists. todd: joy, i have to ask this, hollywood, as you may or may not know are not very pro-trump. not very pro-republican. how do you think this is going to impact your singing career? well, i m working on my second album now. so i will get that out before i officially launch my campaign, if i were to run. right now we a