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Writers of TLC’s No Scrubs given credits on Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 23 March 2017
Ed Sheeran’s new album ‘
Oh, perhaps you have. The writers of TLC’s 1999 hit have seemingly been awarded songwriting credits on Sheeran’s ‘Shape Of You’, one of the ‘
As previously reported, Sheeran was sued twice by songwriters who accused him of ripping off their work on his second album ‘x’. The writers of Matt Cardle track ‘Amazing’ – Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard – claimed that he borrowed from their song for his hit ‘Photograph’. Meanwhile, the estate of songwriter Ed Townsend claim that Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ borrowed from Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’, which Townsend co-wrote.
Both cases are still pending.