British pop star Dua Lipa has been sued for allegedly copying a track by a band called Artikal Sound System to create her hit single, ‘Levitating’.
The 26-year-old has been sued by a band called Artikal Sound System, who claim the track is a rip-off of their 2017 reggae single Live Your Life. The band asserts Dua and her team heard their song and later copied it for their album, reports TMZ.
Artikal Sound System has also named Dua’s label Warner Records and others as defendants and are seeking any profits made on the song, plus damages. Speaking about the popularity of her song in 2020, Dua confessed she had never imagined an overwhelming response.
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“I can never preempt what song people are going to react to the best but ‘Levitating’ was the first song that helped dictate the rest of the album,” said the singer.
Meanwhile, the New Rules hitmaker is working on her new album. Released in 2020, Levitating was taken from Dua Lipa’s album Future Nostalgia and has been streamed over 445 million times on Spotify alone, and has been viewed over 475 million times on YouTube.
