The Weeknd has been hit with a plagiarism lawsuit over his track ‘Call Out My Name’.The singer – real name Abel Tesfaye – and his collaborators Nicolas Jaar and Frank Duke on the song, from 2018 mini-album ‘My Dear Melancholy’, are also implicated in the court case filed by producers Suniel Fox and Henry Strange, as are Universal Music Group.Fox and Strange claim that ‘Call Out My Name’, which has over 700million views on YouTube, lifted elements from their 2015 track ‘Vibeking’, writing in their filing that the songs “contain quantitatively and qualitatively similar material in their respective lead guitar and vocal hooks, including melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic elements distinctive to ‘Vibeking.’”The pair also claim to have records of.
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