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Ed Sheeran seems unable to shake the copycat allegations that plagued him throughout 2016.
The British singer's smash hit Shape Of You, currently number one on the iTunes chart, is being compared to Tracy Chapman's 1988 song Mountain O' Things.
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Ed Sheeran at last year's Grammy Awards. Photo: Kevork Djansezian
Evans was quick to point out it wasn't an attack on the Grammy winner. "It doesn't mean anything, it's not an accusation of any type."
Shape Of You has also been called out online for its uncanny similarities to pop singer Sia's chart topping Cheap Thrills. Both tunes were originally written for Rihanna, and feature an isolated marimba melody and have a similar beat structure.
Sheeran was embroiled in two separate plagiarism disputes over his music last year, both of which remain unsolved. In August 2016, an action was brought against him over the resemblance between his song Thinking Out Loud and Marvin Gaye's classic Let's Get It On, by the heirs of the co-writer of the tune, Edward Benjamin.
In June, he was sued for $20 million by Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard, writers of 2010 X Factor winner Matt Cardle's song Amazing, over similarities in Sheeran's hit song Photograph.
The lawyer representing the two writers, Richard Busch, recently won a similar dispute on behalf of Marvin Gaye's estate. The estate was awarded $US7.2 million ($9.5 million) over copyright infringement of Gaye's 1977 song Got To Give It Up in the hit Blurred Lines by Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke.
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