The copyright dispute regarding the 2019 hit song “Circles” by Post Malone has been resolved; a trial was narrowly averted. The lawsuit was filed by a songwriter who claimed that he co-created the rhythm without receiving credit or compensation.
Plaintiff Tyler Armes mentioned in his lawsuit an August 2018 recording session with Post in which the Canadian rocker allegedly contributed keyboard chords, guitar melody, and bassline. Despite not crediting Armes as a co-writer, “Circles” was published more than a year later and topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in November 2019. Armes claimed that when he contacted Post’s management to request credit for his work on the song, he was offered 5% of the song’s revenues in exchange for no co-writing or co-producing credit.
He claims that every instrument and vocal melody in the song that was recorded that evening is “note for note rhythmically and melodically identical” to the finished song.
Post Malone said, ““It is an age-old story in the music business that when a song earns the type of runaway success that ‘Circles’ has garnered, an individual will come out of the woodwork, falsely claim to take credit for the song, and demand unwarranted and unearned windfall profits from the song.”
On Tuesday morning, as jury selection was ready to begin, attorneys for the singer, whose actual name is Austin Post, and Tyler Armes informed U.S. District Judge Otis Wright II that a settlement in principle had been reached. The trial was postponed until May 30 in anticipation of a formal motion to voluntarily dismiss the case being submitted.
Chart-topping single “Circles” even set a new career high for Post Malone in terms of the number of weeks spent in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100. The song’s 34th week in the Top 10 came during the final week of April 2020, breaking the previous record set by his Swae Lee collaboration “Sunflower.”
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