Pop sensation Beyonce sued for US $7 million

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LOS ANGELES — Pop sensation Beyonce is being sued by a backing singer for USD 7 million after it was claimed the star had plagiarised her music to write her hit song “XO”.

The 33-year-old star and her company Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records have been taken to court over her hit “XO” after Ahmad Lane filed a federal lawsuit claiming she had stolen the music for the track, reported Radar online.

Ahmad alleged that Beyonce’s current backing singer Chrissy Collins gave her a copy of his song “XOXO” after he passed on the track to her when the pair were working together for another artist.

However, the Grammy Award-winner has vehemently denied the claims in court documents.

“The two works at issue are entirely different songs that share no lyrical or musical similarity, other than perhaps the letters X and O,” the response read.

“The two songs are distinct from a thematic perspective.

They have different melodic content and there is no meaningful similarity in pitch series, rhythm or rhythmic patterns, melodic development or structure.

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The “Crazy In Love” hitmaker also stated that Ahmad hasn’t filed a “copyright registration” for his track and asked for the USD 7 million payment to be dropped.