Ed Sheeran Is Being Sued For Stealing Song By X Factor Winner

British singer Ed Sheeran has been slapped with a $20 million lawsuit claiming that his 2015 hit “Photograph” is “verbatim, note-for-note copying” X Factor winner Matt Cardle’s single, “Amazing.”<br />Songwriters Martin Harrington and Thomas Leonard claim that the chord progressions and musical notation of the two songs are very much similar, noting that the chorus reportedly shares 39 identical notes in pitch, rhythmic duration and placement in the measure.