Miley Cyrus is being sued for copyright infringement over her chart-topping 2023 hit Flowers.
The 31-year-old singer was hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit for a allegedly copying Bruno Mars earlier hit When I Was Your Man, which was launched in 2013 and in addition topped the pop charts.
However, it isn't Mars suing Cyrus, however quite Tempo Music Investments, TMZ reported on Monday.
DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for Cyrus and Mars requesting remark.
In the lawsuit, Tempo Music accused Cyrus of ‘deliberately copying' When I Was Your Man in Flowers as a result of important similarities between the 2 songs.
Miley Cyrus, 31, is being sued by Tempo Music Investments for allegedly plagiarizing Bruno Mars' song When I Was Your Man on her 2023 hit Flowers; pictured in February in LA
Mars, who isn't a plaintiff, offered a part of his music catalog to Warner Music Group — which invested in Tempo Music Group — in 2020; pictured in 2018 in Las Vegas
The funding firm claims that Flowers encompasses a comparable melody and harmonies to the sooner song, each within the verses and within the refrain.
It alleges that the chord progressions used on Cyrus' tune — which she is credited for writing with Aldae (actual identify: Gregory Hein) and Michael Pollack — are just like progressions on Mars' song, and it additionally claims that a number of the song's lyrics are just like these on When I Was Your Man, which was written by Mars with Philip Lawrence, Ari Levin and Andrew Wyatt.
Tempo claims in its lawsuit that ‘It is plain primarily based on the mix and variety of similarities between the 2 recordings that Flowers wouldn't exist with out When I Was Your Man.'
Both songs had been hits for their respective artists, and every reached primary on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
When I Was Your Man was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance on the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in 2014, however Flowers was much more profitable.
The song received Record Of The Year — which honors songwriters — alongside with the award Mars was nominated for, Best Pop Solo Performance.
Flowers was additionally nominated for Song of the Year on the Grammys, although it did not win.
Tempo Music accuses Cyrus, her producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Harper and her document label of all gaining access to Mars' song, although almost everybody has entry to the song, which was a hit when it was launched a decade earlier and has remained simply accessible on bodily media and streaming ever since.
The funding agency is requesting damages from Cyrus, although it is unclear if it has specified a requested quantity but.
In a extra extreme transfer, it's requesting that she and her label be barred from distributing Flowers, which could entail eradicating it from digital and future bodily variations of her 2023 album Endless Summer Vacation, and the agency can be requesting that Cyrus be barred from ever once more performing the favored song.
Tempo Music, quite than Mars, seems to have filed the lawsuit after reportedly taking management of a part of the song's copyright.
In May of 2021, the Uptown Funk hitmaker was reported to have offered a portion of his song catalog to Warner Music Group six months earlier.
Few particulars had been revealed on the time concerning the scope of the size, however Mars (actual identify: Peter Hernandez) was reported to have retained majority possession of his catalog.
In late 2019, Warner Music Group and Providence Equity Partners introduced plans to speculate $650 million in a brand new platform, Tempo Music Investments, based on Variety.
Tempo Music, which claims to personal a part of Mars' copyright, says Flowers has main similarities to When I Was Your Man's melody, harmonies, chord construction and lyrics; Cyrus pictured within the Flowers video
Mars' song was a chart topper in 2013 however did not win a Grammy. Cyrus' song additionally topped the Billboard Hot 100, however she additionally received Record of the Year (for songwriters) and Best Pop Solo Performance, which Mars was nominated for however misplaced; Mars seen in 2021 in LA
The funding agency is looking for cash from Cyrus and desires her to be barred from distributing or ever performing Flowers stay; pictured in February in LA
Tempo was devised to spend money on artists' catalogs, each for their grasp recordings and their publishing rights.
It has change into more and more widespread lately for artists to promote all or parts of their catalogs to funding companies like Tempo, or its extra senior competitor Hipgnosis Songs Fund.
The transfer supplies large paydays for artists, a lot of whom — together with Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan — are on the ends of their careers, whereas the businesses can then revenue from the royalties on the songs.
It's much less widespread for youthful artists like Mars to unload their catalogs, although he solely offered a portion of his.
