What year was Blurred Lines popular?

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams created a radio hit with 2013’s “Blurred Lines,” a song that has continued to drum up controversy years later.

What was the legal ruling behind Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines song and why?

A judge has entered a nearly $5 million judgment against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams in favor of Marvin Gaye’s family in the long-running lawsuit involving copyright infringement surrounding Thicke and Williams’ song “Blurred Lines” and Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give It Up,” Billboard reports.

What song did they say Blurred Lines copied?

Got to Give it Up
Pharrell Williams has spoken out against a federal jury’s ruling that his hit song “Blurred Lines” illegally copied from Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up”. In 2018, a federal appeals court upheld a controversial copyright infringement verdict against singer Robin Thicke and Williams over the 2013 chart-topper.

Did Blurred Lines get banned?

That pop song was Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”, and the time was 2013. The backlash was widespread: it was banned from being played on several UK university campuses, YouTube removed the explicit version of the video, and the Guardian dubbed it “the most controversial song of the decade”.

Who was the original producer of Blurred Lines?

“Blurred Lines” was produced by Thicke and Pharrell with an intention of creating a sound similar to Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give It Up” (1977). The song was completed in less than an hour.

Who was the copyright holder of Blurred Lines?

The song became the subject of a bitter legal dispute with the family of American singer Marvin Gaye and Bridgeport Music, who argued the song infringed on copyrights to Gaye’s 1977 single ” Got to Give It Up “.

When did blurred lines become number one in the US?

“Blurred Lines” peaked at number one in at least 25 countries and became the number one song of 2013 in several. It became Thicke’s first, T.I.’s fourth, and Williams’ third number-one single in the US, where it was also the longest running number one single for that year.

When did Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke come out?

Release and commercial performance “Blurred Lines” was released as the lead single on March 26, 2013 from Thicke’s studio album of the same name (2013), through Star Trak Recordings and Interscope Records. It was released to Contemporary hit radio on May 21, 2013.