Robin Schulz accused of stealing his new hit from rising producer

[Teletubby 147,329]

Robin Schulz has been accused of stealing elements of his song “Miss You” with Oliver Tree from rising producer southstar, who released a song with the same name, same sample, and seemingly same production and even the same track length three months prior.

A rework of Oliver Tree’s “Jerk,” “Miss You” initially released by southstar on May 9 has been discovered in playlists and major live sets ever since. Exploding in Germany and rippling globally, southstar’s “Miss You” landed in Spotify’s Viral Charts (no.1 in Germany and no.2 globally) while peaking in the Top 50 Charts in Germany. 
Robin Schulz is German, where the track was no.1 in Spotify’s Viral Charts.

southstar had all the necessary rights to the sample cleared by his label, Sony. Robin Schulz managed to get Oliver Tree on the track as a feature (as they are both from the same label).

On Instagram stories, southstar called out the producer: “Robin Schulz stole my song ‘Miss You’, which I dropped over a month ago!”

Robin Schulz’s management have made an official statement: “For over 20 years we have navigated fairly and with great respect for all artists and their creative work. Sometimes I am surprised by the audacity of other artists to deliberately disregard rights and works and capitalize on them.”
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southstar (released on May 9)

Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz  (released on August 5)

Robin Schulz's version went viral on TikTok and both songs debuted on Global and UK Spotify Charts this week 

Robin Schulz's version charts higher than southstar's Miss You

Spotify October 12

• southstar
Global #82 - 1,277,941
UK #31 - 128,176

• Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz
Global #33 - 1,941,050
UK #11 - 223,794

[weed 73,496]

omg? the exact same song?? I listened to like 30 seconds of each lol

no shade but the robin version is clearer/sounds better 

[pachinko 10,334]

Its literally the same song. Yikes. 

[thatfoxyfeeling 12,995]

What the it's literally the same song. 

[RahrahWitch 6,985]

 They're using the same sample song but the changes are literally the same wtf?! 

[Gagaism 11,506]

If I was part of a song producer crew I’d just start to Shazam the new songs to make sure there’s nothing similar already released 

[The Fame Monster 4,206]

Oliver Tree in the meanwhile

[Controversiaga 10,617]

I’ve never heard of any of this ppl

[Noah 26,935]

Omg… it‘s literally the exact same song

[LaFama 4,629]

Robin Schulz has been accused of stealing elements of his song “Miss You” 

Elements??? That's the whole ass song, pls be serious  

[PopEmergency 2,201]

fun fact about this track... Southstars version was on Spotify, Schulz stole the song and had the audacity to copyright claim southstar. He had to change the vocal track and update the song 

[gumzy3000 7,203]

You have got to be kidding me, I hope this Robin dude is sued into oblivion - they are EXACTLY the same song

[Zombiecat 16,490]

Kinda like when Flo Rida released Good Feeling to get over on Avicii 'levels'  messy

[bpmMonkey 5,522]

Uh, this popped up a couple of months ago. It was my summer song, the one from southstar. A lot of producers and DJs her spoke out about it, Schulz then disabled his Instagram so you couldn’t tag him anymore or DM him.. he clearly knew what he was doing. 

[Guest MiracleWinchester]

It wasn’t Robin Schulz‘ fault or idea. It was some sort of a PR stunt of his manager. He revealed this months ago. 

Robin Schulz released the song featuring the original artist. They ripped or sampled southstar’s song, because HE stole large portion‘s of Oliver Tree‘s art WITHOUT permission.

His manager wanted to set an example how other people are stealing art. So they sampled the song.