Dua Lipa sued by reggae band for allegedly stealing hit song ‘Levitating’

Dua Lipa performs during the “Future Nostalgia Tour” at Madison Square Garden on March 1, 2022, in New York City. Image: Getty Images/Jamie McCarthy via AFP

Dua Lipa is facing a lawsuit for copyright infringement over claims that she stole her hit song “Levitating” from a reggae band.

The British pop star was sued by the Florida-based reggae band Artikal Sound System, which accused her of copying “Levitating” from their 2017 track “Live Your Life,” as reported by Billboard last Tuesday, March 1.

The complaint filed at a Los Angeles federal court stated that the two tracks were so similar that it was “highly unlikely that ‘Levitating’ was created independently.” However, the lawsuit was also “very short” and contained little detail about how or why Lipa supposedly copied the song.

Artikal Sound System also alleged that the defendants—including Lipa, her co-songwriters, producer and Warner Records—”listened to and copied ‘Live Your Life’ before and during the time they were writing ‘Levitating,'” as per Entertainment Weekly and People yesterday, March 2.

“Levitating” was released in 2020 under Lipa’s second studio album “Future Nostalgia.”

Meanwhile, Artikal Sound System was founded in 2012 and released “Live Your Life” under its 2017 EP “Smoke and Mirrors.” Dana Cruz /ra

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