Edward Christopher Sheeran, MBE (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, + (pronounced "plus"), was released in September 2011. It topped the UK and Australian charts, reached number five in the US, and has since been certified eight-times platinum in the UK.
The album contains the single "The A Team", which earned him the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. "The A Team" was nominated for Song of the Year at the 2013 Grammy Awards, where he performed the song with Elton John.
King Crimson copyright holder sues over Kanye West’s ‘Power’ sample
nme.comKing Crimson sample in Kanye West’s ‘Power’ is suing Universal Music Group.As per a report in Variety, mechanical rights holder to King Crimson’s ’21st Century Schizoid Man’, Declan Colgan Music Ltd, claims that Universal have underpaid streaming royalties for the use of that song on ‘Power.’‘Power’ appears on West’s acclaimed 2010 album, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ and members of King Crimson are listed in the credits for the track.According to Variety, Universal and Declan Colgan Music have an agreement that pays King Crimson a royalty rate of 5.33 per cent for copies of ‘Power’ that are sold or “otherwise exploited.”The issue, according to Declan Colgan Music and their lawyers, is that they claim Universal are paying an insufficient amount for streams of ‘Power’.The label is allegedly paying Declan Colgan Music a percentage of what it receives from streams, which is a lower amount than what CD sales would have produced.According to Variety, the rights holder is claiming that Universal “failed, and continues to fail, to comply with its royalty accounting obligations.”RF: This dispute has been dragging on for several years, unnecessarily IMO and I suggest the SOP for majors when…Posted by Robert Fripp on Wednesday, April 13, 2022In a statement on Facebook, King Crimson’s Robert Fripp said: “There is a longer story to be told, and likely to astound innocents and decent, ordinary people who believe that one is paid equitably for their work, and on the appointed payday.“This dispute has been dragging on for several years, unnecessarily IMO,” he added.He also went on to write that the band’s lawyers is the same one who won Ed Sheeran’s recent ‘Shape of You’ copyright case.“Meanwhile and interesting factoid: the.
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