Posted on 10/14/2023 11:29:18 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Drake needs to pay up. Those Petshop Boys probably need the money.
This isn’t just a case of a few music notes causing the issue as you often see happen in these court cases. He uses the actual words with similar music. Clear cut copying.
Ping
Pretty brazen l’d say.
I guess Drake got Money for Nothing.
I was shocked a while ago to learn in terms of certified sales from around the world that Drake is the number 1 artist of all time. Ahead of Elvis, the Beatles you name it. Now this is partly due to the modern era having certification of sales in many more countries than was the case back in day but it’s still shocking at least to me.
𝘐 𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨.
Probably still got chicks for free.
They’re still touring and doing just fine financially.
CC
Never heard of this guy.
Indeed so it’s not exactly a fair comparison but in raw numbers it’s still shocking.
Also: Inflation.
Those dollars don’t go nearly as far as they once did.
His first name is Sir Francis.
I would say no on the copying. Pet Shop Boys should get nothing. If this stands, then a lot more artist should should sue other artists.
Musical artists should write the own damm songs.
For instance, the artists Dustin Lynch and Jelly Roll have a song out called "Chevrolet" which is a new take of "Drift Away" (a Mentor Williams song made famous by Dobie Gray).
Mentor is given songwriting credits so all is good there.
In the days of Elvis and even The Beatles, record albums were fairly significant purchases. When I was a teen, I worked part time for $2.65 an hour and LPs at that time were running upwards of $8.98 - or about four hours of pay for me. So I did not buy too many albums back then.
It was considered rather significant for a music artist to sell 500,000 albums back in those days. When "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac moved 20 million units in 1977, well that was seen as simply a staggering sales number.
Nowadays, a newly released album by a big name artist can routinely stream 20 million times the first week of release.
Country artist Morgan Wallen released an album earlier this year ("One Thing At A Time") and it has streamed 3,500,000,000 billion times since (3.5 billion).
The most streamed album of all time is Bad Bunny's “Un Verano Sin Ti” which has streamed an incredible 14,500,000,000,000 times since it's 2022 release (and that's on Spotify alone).
It's a new world out there.
They also sampled petshop boys too without their permission!
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