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Court documents claim that one of pop star Katy Perry’s songs has become a subject of controversy. The singer is dealing with accusations that she claimed work from another songwriter as her own. Both the songwriter and Perry’s team have shared their sides of the story.

A Songwriter Claimed Her 2014 Song Was Similar To A 2020 Katy Perry Song

Perry is considered one of the best-selling musicians in history. In 2008, she first rose to fame with the album One of the Boys. Perry is also known for her time as a judge on American Idol.

However, it’s come to light that one of Perry’s songs has come under fire. Courts documents have revealed a songwriter named Michele Ronk has filed a federal lawsuit against the star.

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According to In Touch Weekly, the suit was filed in October of 2020. Notably, Ronk had filed the suit...

Katy Perry is the latest artist to sell her music rights.

The singer has sold the rights to Litmus Music — which is co-founded by former Capitol Records president Dan McCarroll — for a whopping $225 million Usd.

The company — that launched last summer — announced the news on Monday, Variety reported.

Perry’s stakes in master recordings and publishing rights for her five albums — One of the Boys [2008], Teenage Dream [2010], Prism [2013], Witness [2017] and Smile [2020] — are included in the deal. Universal Music Group continues to own the masters to the releases.

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McCarroll said, “Katy Perry is a creative visionary who has made a major impact across music, TV, film, and philanthropy. I’m so honoured to be partnering with her again and to help Litmus manage her incredible repertoire.”

Co-founder and CEO Hank Forsyth added,...

Katy Perry has cashed in on her catalog of hits, selling her stake in her master recordings and publishing rights to Litmus Music for a reported $225 million, according to Billboard.

The deal covers the five albums Perry released for Capitol Records, starting with 2008’s One of the Boys and ending with 2020’s Smile. That run also includes 2013’s Prism, 2017’s Witness, and Perry’s blockbuster 2010 effort, Teenage Dream, which spawned five Number One Hot 100 hits.

Perry’s decision to sell to Litmus makes sense, as its co-founder Dan McCarroll, used to run Capitol Records.

Katy Perry has sold her music rights to Litmus Music, a venture co-founded by Capitol Records president Dan McCarroll and financed by The Carlyle Group.

The deal covers all five of her studio albums, including 16 multi-platinum singles. Carlyle announced the deal, worth a reported $225 million, today.

According to Carlyle, the partnership company’s partnership with Perry “has its roots in Litmus Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer Dan McCarroll’s longstanding working relationship” with the singer, which began in 2010 when McCarroll was named President of Capitol Records.

“Katy Perry is a creative visionary who has made a major impact across music, TV, film, and philanthropy,” McCarroll said in a statement. “I’m so honored to be partnering with her again and to help Litmus manage her incredible repertoire.”

Hank Forsyth, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Litmus Music, called Perry’s songs “an essential part of the global cultural fabric,” while Matt Settle,...

Katy Perry has announced her final 10 performance dates for Katy Perry: Play, her residency at Resorts World Las Vegas.

Her set of performances first debuted at Resorts World Theatre in December 2021. Perry’s nearly two-year-long residency will end on November 4.

Perry rose to prominence with her 2008 debut album with Capitol Records, One of the Boys, which featured singles “I Kissed a Girl” and “Hot n Cold.” Her second album, Teenage Dream, contained five U.S. number-one singles.

She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time with 143 million records worldwide. She also has the most U.S. diamond-certified singles for a female artist with 4.

Perry has served as a judge on American Idol since 2018.

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Katy Perry Las Vegas Setlist

The below setlist comes from Perry’s last Las Vegas residency performance on August 12, 2023.

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20 June 2023 — 2023 is a momentous year in the iconic career of Katy Perry. As her first three albums for Capitol Records mark notable anniversaries, she’ll celebrate with the release of the Katy Perry CATalog Collector’s Edition Boxset. Katy has the distinction of being the biggest-selling female artist in the history of Capitol Records.

Set for October 20 release, new black vinyl editions of One Of The Boys, Teenage Dream and Prism will be available at retailers everywhere. An exquisitely presented, individually numbered, limited edition boxset with colored vinyl and keepsakes designed with previously unseen images from the albums’ photo shoots can be pre-ordered exclusively at Katy’s online store, where fans will also find CATalog-themed fan packs and t-shirts. Urban Outfitters will have its own editions of special colored vinyl. See the pre-order options for Katy Perry CATalog Collector’s Edition Boxset Here. View the 3D animated video of the collection Here.

This summer, Nordic streamer Viaplay is offering both dark thrillers and documentaries. In the satirical Scandinavian horror “No Angel” streaming July 6, a popular 17-year-old girl does the usual round of parties and boys — with a twist. She’s also a serial killer.

Watch the trailer for ‘No Angel’:

In “A Road Less Traveled” acclaimed actress-director Liv Ullmann looks back on decades of a successful career. In the documentary — streaming on June 22 — Ullman recounts the struggles she endured to gain respect in the entertainment industry. Some of her famous collaborators are also interviewed, including Cate Blanchett, Jessica Chastain, John Lithgow, and Jeremy Irons.

Coming to Viaplay this Summer: June 1 The Architect June 8 One of the Boys June 22 A Road Less Travelled July 6 No Angel July 20 Black Sands Aug. 17 Fenris Aug. 31 Face to Face, Season 3 7-Day Trial viaplay.com Viaplay

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It’s no mystery why Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” is nominated for 17 Emmy Awards including comedy series, actor and guest actor and actress: a delish plot, snappy dialogue, pitch-perfect directing, and a cast to die for led by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez. They are “The Three Amigos” for the 21st century. To celebrate the series, which recently had its second season finale, why not look at some fun facts and trivia of the cast many of whom already have mantle full of honors.

Steve Martin

Talk about a modern-day Renaissance man. Martin is an actor, writer, musician-he plays a mean banjo-composer and ace tap dancers. Is there anything he can’t do? Martin won an honorary Oscar in 2014, the AFI’s Life Achievement Award in 2015, four Grammy Awards including two for best comedy recording in 1978 and 1979, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007 such critics honors...

A question we all sometimes ask ourselves is if we truly know the people we are surrounded with, especially those we are intimately connected to. Occasionally, a secret of greater magnitude shakes our confidence in those we love, but what is the limit? Is there a betrayal of greater proportions we can forgive and continue loving the person, once we are given a palpable reason for it? Is there a reason good enough? Kei Ishikawa gives us such a scenario in his slow-burning, but nevertheless attention-grabbing adaptation of the eponymous novel by Japanese writer Keiichiro Hirano, in his third feature film that has just had its world premiere in Venice film festival’s Orizzonti program.

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If there is an initial excitement about an almost obvious crime element, it is soon replaced by the realization that there is something much more...

Katy Perry wasn't always Katy Perry. Back before she was kissing girls and liking it or feeling like a teenage dream—that is to say well before Super Bowl halftime and American Idol stages were even a remote possibility—she was merely Katy Hudson, a girl with her guitar. You'd be forgiven, though, for thinking Katy arrived on the scene in 2007 with the (unfortunate) debut single "Ur So Gay" as a fresh-faced newcomer with no musical history behind her. There's very little evidence left in the world that would argue otherwise, after all. But the album that put her on the map, 2008's One of the Boys, wasn't her first. That distinction belongs to a contemporary...

Huey Lewis and the News unveiled a new song, “While We’re Young,” from their first album of all new music in 19 years, Weather, out February 14th, 2020.

“While We’re Young” is a plucky pop rock tune with supple guitars and bright horns fluttering over a tight drum and bass groove. Lewis is as wry and witty as ever on vocals as he sings about turning back the clock, while still properly acknowledging the limits of one’s age: “We’ll take a nap in the afternoon/That’s just part...

Los Angeles, Oct 12: Meg Ryan will return to the small screen after almost 30 years as a producer and actor of a comedy show.

The story revolves around a former big time New York editor.

Ryan will play the role of a single mother who follows her decision to return to work at her old New York publishing house where she was a highly successful editor, reports contactmusic.com.

The 51-year-old was last seen in a 1982 comedy show "One Of The Boys".

The new show is written by "Two Weeks Notice" director Marc Lawrence. Ryan is on board as the show's executive producer.

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After years of enjoying a casual friendship with television—those heady early days when they first met on As The World Turns, and oh, maybe they flirted with giving her a sitcom on NBC’s One Of The Boys, but then they went their separate ways, Meg spurning TV to concentrate her movie career, and TV getting mixed up with younger and younger women every year, until they’d bump into each other on, say, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and wow, TV hardly recognized her—Meg Ryan and TV have realized they might just be meant for each other. Deadline reports ...

Sleepless In Seattle and When Harry Met Sally star Meg Ryan is eying a return to television as the star of an NBC comedy series. The project, now in development at the network and sister studio Universal TV, is being written by feature scribe Marc Lawrence (Miss Congeniality franchise), who teamed with the actress in the summer to work on the idea. The single-camera comedy centers on, a sunny, devoted and desperately non-confrontational single mom (Ryan) who decides to return to her New York publishing house where she was once a brilliant editor to find that she now works for Brenda, he neurotic 30-year-old boss who was once her former intern. Now she must find a way to keep her boss, her teenage kids, her almost ex-husband and her meddlesome mother-in-law all happy, which results in her overcomplicating every situation and somehow always making it worse. Ryan is executive producing with her manager,...