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with a program that brings sweet harmony to discordant data and I'm Tim Hafen.

In April this year the pop sensation Ed Sheeran

won a court case that had been brought against him over his smash hit,

Shape of You.

Sheeran had been accused of plagiarism by a singer named Sami Switch

who claimed a section of the song was strikingly similar to one of his own tunes,

a song called, a Why.

Now after Ed Sheeran won his case he made a statement on Instagram.

There's only so many notes and very few chords used in pop music.

Coincidences bound to happen if 60,000 songs are being released every day on Spotify.

There's 22 million songs a year and there's only 12 notes that are available.

Now we hear it more or less are interested in numbers and calculations,

perhaps you've noticed, so Ed Sheeran's statement got us thinking.

Our musical coincidence is really as likely as Ed Sheeran says,

having 12 notes to play with may not sound like a lot but if there's one thing I know it's

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