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Ed Sheeran has won a copyright lawsuit over his hit single, "Shape of You."

A U.K. High Court ruled on Wednesday (4-6) that Sheeran had not plagiarized the 2015 song, "Oh Why" by Sami Chokri.

According to the Judge, Sheeran had neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied Chokri's work. He added that there were similarities between the one-bar phrase in "Shape of You" and "Oh Why," but said that such similarities are only a starting point for a possible infringement" of copyright.

Sheeran issued a video statement after the verdict and said that claims like this can be really damaging to the songwriting industry. He also pointed out that… with 60,000 songs being released every day on Spotify, and only 12 notes available, a coincidence is bound to happen.

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Jack Harlow will release a new single, "First Class" on Friday (4-8). The song features a sampling of Fergie's 2006 hit "Glamorous." As a teaser, he posted a short clip from the studio. He's seen dancing and singing along, just after recording it.

The Louisville native, along with Lil Nas X, performed on the Grammy Awards on Sunday. Their song, "Industry Baby" was up for best melodic rap performance, but was beat out by Kanye West's "Hurricane."

Harlow's second album, Come Home The Kids Miss You, will be out on May 6.

TL;DR:

• Jack Harlow will release "First Class" on Friday (4-8).
• It features a sampling of Fergie's 2006 hit "Glamorous."
• Harlow's second album, Come Home The Kids Miss You, will be out on May 6.

Kanye West is no longer performing at Coachella festival and according to TMZ, he walked away from $8 million.

Yeezy was supposed to do a two-weekend performance, which would have also cost $500,000 for production.

On another note, according to Page Six, The Weeknd will be replacing Kanye and has demanded the $8 million Ye was supposed to be receiving or else he threatened to pull out from the gig altogether.

While being interviewed by Kelly Clarkson, Backstreet Boys laughed about the time Machine Gun Kelly threw up at one of their concerts.

They were quick to point out that it wasn't their music that made him nauseous. Instead, Machine Gun Kelly said it was because it was so intense and the girls were screaming so loud, that he just suddenly threw up. It happened as the boys band made their grand entrance on their Millennium Tour.

Member, AJ McLean said, "It's a different kind of energy, and we thrive on that energy, you know? I mean, don't get me wrong, our kids were so happy that we were home for this last two years, but … our wives were like, ‘You have to go back to work. Please go back to work.'"

Backstreet Boys DNA World Tour continues April 8 in Las Vegas.

Machine Gun Kelly's next show is June 8 in Austin, Texas.

TL;DR:

• While being interviewed by Kelly Clarkson, Backstreet Boys laughed about the time Machine Gun Kelly threw up at one of their concerts.
• Kelly said it was because it was so intense and the girls were screaming so loud.
• It happened as the boys band made their grand entrance on their Millennium Tour.

The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia will replace Kanye West as headliners at this month's Coachella. They'll perform in the closing Sunday night slot alongside fellow headliners Harry Styles and Billie Eilish. Earlier this week, it was rumored that Red Hot Chili Peppers were one of the contenders for the spot, which didn't seem to pan out. Kanye West pulled out of the tour on Monday April 4^th. The two-weekend event begins April 15^th.

In other Weeknd news… his singles "Blinding Lights" and "Starboy" have officially been certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America. Diamond means a song moved 10 million units.

Megan Thee Stallion says she's gonna try to give up makeup until Coachella. She posted makeup-free photos on Instagram and Normani with support and said, "You're so beautiful sisterrrrr." Just a few hours after posting, she already had over 2 million likes.

Coachella is still scrambling to find a replacement for Kanye West's headlining Sunday (April 17th and 24th) spot at the festival.

TMZ reports that organizers were eager to get Silk Sonic but were shot down because the Grammy-winning duo wouldn't have enough time to put a show together.

According to the outlet, The Weeknd and The Red Hot Chili Peppers are currently the top contenders.

Ye pulled out of the tour Monday (April 4th), with Variety reporting that he had not rehearsed or prepared for the show.

Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, and Kanye West were among the artists whose YouTube channels were hacked on Tuesday (April 5th) morning.

According to the Daily Mail, multiple accounts had bizarre videos uploaded, including one called, "Justin beber - Free Paco Sanz (ft. Will Smith, Chris Rock, Skinny flex & Los Pelaos)".

Paco Sanz is a Spanish criminal currently in prison for defrauding thousands of people by pretending to have a terminal illness.

The outlet reports that it is unclear if it was YouTube that fell victim to the hacker or a third-party social media management service.

Additional celebrities affected include Justin Bieber, Drake, Eminem, Harry Styles, Travis Scott, Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X and Michael Jackson.

Hailey Bieber is shutting down pregnancy rumors following her Grammy red carpet appearance alongside husband, Justin Bieber.

The model responded directly to an April 4th Instagram post from Radar that said, "Is a little #Belieber on the way? Fans are speculating that #HaileyBaldwin is pregnant after seeing what appeared to be a "baby bump" during her appearance at the 2022 #GrammyAwards this weekend."

She commented on Tuesday (April 5th), "I'm not pregnant leave me alone."

Justin Bieber has teamed up with BetterHelp to offer his fans up to $3 million in free therapy.

Through the partnership, his 250-person touring crew will have access to the service for 18 months, and fans who register will get one month of free therapy.

The singer told Billboard Tuesday (April 5th), "The one thing I've learned over the years is that we all go through our ups and downs and we all need help sometimes. Being able to offer access to free therapy to my fans and tour family is a real blessing, and I'm humbled to be able to do it."

According to the New York Daily News, R. Kelly is upset with his former attorneys and recently filed an affidavit criticizing them over the jury selection process in his sexual abuse case. Kelly claims that there were several jurors who "may" have seen the 2019 Surviving R. Kelly documentary.

Kelly wrote, "At certain points during jury selection, I did hear that some jurors may have seen the Surviving R. Kelly docuseries and that concerned me greatly. I raised my concerns with my attorneys but they shooed me off. I was nothing more than a bystander in the process. ... There was no strategy involved in choosing the jurors that sat on my jury as far as I could tell. At least there was no trial strategy that involved my input."

The singer has was convicted of federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 4 and faces a maximum of life in prison.

The Backstreet Boys announced Tuesday (April 5th) that they will be making additional tour stops on their DNA World Tour.

The group will now visit Nashville, Portland and Memphis in the US and kick off a European leg of the tour in Portugal on October 3rd.

The DNA World Tour starts this weekend with four shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 8th, 9th, 15th, and 16th.

Tory Lanez appeared in court in Los Angeles on Tuesday (April 5) for the pretrial hearing for his felony assault case stemming from the shooting incident involving Megan Thee Stallion from last summer.

According to XXL, Tory was taken into custody after the judge presiding over the case determined that Tory violated the protective and personal contact orders of protection Megan had against him.

Tory's bail was increased from $250,000 to $325,000.

Tory was released from custody hours after the court hearing.

His lawyer, Shawn Holley, released a statement, which said, "The DA requested that Mr. Peterson's bail be revoked or, in the alternative, that it be increased to $5 million. We are pleased that the Court rejected those outrageous requests."

It was also said in court that the DNA of four people were found on the gun from the July of 2020 shooting incident. Therefore, it was inclusive whether or not Tory's DNA was on the gun.

He was also excluded as a contributor to his DNA being on the gun's magazine, or clip.

Megan Thee Stallion's attorney, Alex Spiro, also said in a statement, "A judge found sufficient evidence of Mr. Peterson's guilt to order him to stand trial. Additionally, the judge found sufficient evidence today that he violated the order of protection and had him handcuffed in the courtroom. The self-serving noise in this case will not change the facts or prevent this case from proceeding."

Tory Lanez was found guilty of violating the protective order that as already in place in July of last year when he performed at Rolling Loud Miami last year with DaBaby.

Megan was also at the festival and was apparently less than the court-ordered 100 yards away from the Houston rapper.

Britney Spears has confirmed that she is writing a memoir.

The "Toxic" singer wrote in a now-deleted Instagram post Monday (April 4th), "Well I'm writing a book at the moment and it's actually healing and therapeutic... it's also hard bringing up past events in my life. I've never been able to express openly!!! I can only imagine that I do sound childish but I was extremely young with those events took place."

Her post makes it sound like the memoir will be pretty juicy by adding, "I'm not the type of person to bring up UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS well because it's just NOT RESPECTFUL … but come on LET'S ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT IT!"

Spears did not mention a release date for the book or whether it had been picked up by a publisher, but previous reports state that she has sold the title to Simon and Schuster for $15 million.

Selena Gomez says that staying off the internet has improved her mental health.

While celebrating the launch of her new platform, Wondermind, during an appearance on Good Moring America Monday (April 4th), the singer said, "I haven't been on the Internet in 4-and-a-half years. It has changed my life completely. I am happier, I am more present, I connect more with people. I understand how powerful the Internet is, and in so many ways it's done the best things for the world. But for me, I get to my news that is actually important I get through people in my life."

Though she is the second most followed woman on Instagram, she revealed previously that her assistants post on her behalf.

Shawn Mendes has announced 13 additional Wonder: The World Tour shows in the US & Canada, with 86 arena dates announced so far spanning across North America, the UK & Europe.

The new dates include stops the singer's hometown of Toronto, new shows in San Diego, and St. Louis, as well as a second stop in Brooklyn.

Mendes will be joined in North America by supporting acts Dermot Kennedy and Tate McRae.

Kanye West has pulled out of Coachella. According to TMZ, there is no word on exactly why Ye has decided not to perform but sources told Variety the rapper hasn't rehearsed or prepared for the show. Meanwhile, reports say that The Weeknd may be taking Kanye's place as headliner.

Since Kanye is not performing, Travis Scott also won't be appearing. As previously reported, Scott was set to headline the show but was pulled after the Astroworld festival tragedy. Kanye West took his place and vowed to bring Scott to the stage to perform with him.

Coachella is taking place later this month in Indio, CA.

The Weeknd is considering changing his name.

He wrote on Twitter Sunday (April 3th) that he is considering "pulling a YE" and legally changing his name from Abel Tesfaye to just ABEL.

He explained, "no last name. Like Madonna or Cher or Prince. I don't know it seems like a lot."

The Weeknd, straight off a Grammy win for best melodic rap performance for his feature on Kanye West's song "Hurricane," will debut his latest music video, "Out of Time" on Tuesday (April 5th) at 6a.m. PT.

People can't stop talking about the way Madonna looked in a TikTok video shared Sunday (April 3rd).

The "Material Girl" her blonde hair in pigtail braids while she looked into her camera with a frozen forehead, plumped up cheekbones and puffy lips. Startled coommenters asked, "what has she done to herself?

Dr. Steve Fallek told OK! That he believes the singer has had too much Botox in her forehead, too much filler in her cheeks and too much of a buccal fat pad reduction to narrow her face. He also added that her lips are "out of proportion and too big for her." and her upper eyelids "should be fixed" because they have dropped.

Hours before the 2022 Grammy Awards aired Sunday (April 3rd) night, Ariana Grande announced that she would not be attending the ceremony in Las Vegas.

The singer, who was nominated for multiple awards, shared her "positions memories" and wrote, "have a beautiful time, i am celebrating all of you there today!"

Grande was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance for Positions. Olivia Rodrigo won both awards.

Halsey attended the 2022 Grammys just day after having surgery for endometriosis.

The singer wrote on Instagram Saturday (April 2nd), "The last time I attended the Grammys was in 2017 and it was 3 days after I had my first Endometriosis surgery. I walked the carpet with my stitches still in. As luck would have it, I'm attending tomorrow for the first time in years and I had surgery again (you guessed it) 3 days ago."

Halsey was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album for If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power. St. Vincent took home the prize for Daddy's Home.

Miley Cyrus had to back out of Steven Tyler's Grammy watch party at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Sunday (April 3rd) because she contracted Covid-19 while on the road.

The singer, who was supposed to perform at the charity event, tweeted Friday (April 1st), "Traveling around the world, playin for 100,000 people a night & meeting hundreds of fans a day, the chances of getting Covid are pretty high. I have Covid now but it was definitely worth it."

She added in a second tweet, "Unfortunately because of this I'm missing out on Janie's Fund which sucks because it's a charity that's super important to me & my friend Steven Tyler. I am feeling fine so don't worry about me! Sorry Steven! We'll have to ‘Walk This Way' another time!"

Janie's Fund was created with Tyler in partnership with Youth Villages to bring hope and healing to girls who have suffered the trauma of abuse and neglect.

Camila Cabello opened up on Instagram Saturday (April 2nd), explaining that she can't enjoy going to the beach because paparazzi turn the day into "a whole photoshoot."

The singer wrote, "I held my core so tight my abs hurt and didn't breathe and barely smiled and was so self conscious of where the paps were the whole time i couldn't let go and relax and do what we're meant to do when we go out into nature."

Several famous women, including Lily Collins, Kesha and Bella Thorne, seemed to understand her plight with Paris Hilton chiming in to say, "This made me cry. Thank you for writing this, so important for people to hear. You are beautiful inside and out."

Cardi B deleted her Twitter last night (April 3rd) after fans dragged her for not attending the Grammys. She tweeted, . "I'm deleting my Twitter On God I hate this f*ckin dumba** fan base." She continued, "You got the slow dumbasses dragging my kids all cause y'all thought I was going to the Grammys and I didn't the f*ck?"

She added, "When the f*ck I hinted I was going ? just f*vkin stupid I can't I needs to protect myself."

Prior to deleting her Twitter, one fan wrote,"I bet yo son wouldnt like for you to be on your ass while teasing us fans and not ever dropping music." Cardi replied, but later deleted, "I hope your moms die." When another person tweeted that her kids are autistic, she replied, "None of my kids are autistic… don't project wat u got on my kids the f*ck."