On this day, 6 April 2022, Ed Sheeran won a British High Court copyright battle over his 2017 hit ‘Shape of You’. Judge Antony Zacaroli ruled that Sheeran had “neither deliberately nor subconsciously copied” Sami Chokri’s song ‘Oh Why’. Chokri, a grime artist who performs under the name Sami Switch, had claimed the “Oh I” hook in Sheeran’s track was “strikingly similar” to an “Oh why” refrain in his own track. After the ruling, Sheeran said “It’s really damaging to the songwriting industry. There’s only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music. Coincidence is bound to happen if 60,000 songs are being released every day on Spotify. That’s 22 million songs a year and there’s only 12 notes that are available.” ‘Shape of You’ was the UK’s best-selling song of 2017 in the UK and is Spotify’s most-streamed ever.