Leona's 1st single "Collide" off Album No.3

Leona Lewis/Avicii Collide


It is announced today that Leona Lewis and Avicii will work
together on the forthcoming single Collide. Collide will be released on
September 4th. Since getting it’s first radio play in the UK it has
received rave reviews and is already topping club charts across the
country.

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X Factor winner faces High Court battle to release new single


Leona Lewis must fight injunction by Swedish DJ, Avicii, who claims his song Fade Into Darkness was copied.

Leona Lewis and her record label – Simon Cowell's
Syco – will next week have to fight off a High Court challenge from a
22-year-old, up-and-coming Swedish DJ if the former X Factor winner is
to be able to release her forthcoming single, Collide.
On
Monday, the High Court is scheduled to hear a plea for an injunction
from dance music producer Avicii, who alleges that the instrumental from
Collide is a copy of that in his own song Fade Into Darkness – an allegation denied by the chart-topping Lewis and her team.
If
the injunction request is upheld, it will prevent the planned release
of Collide on 4 September, which is intended to be the lead song for the
third album from the singer from Hackney, who is aiming to show that
she is more than a singer of Bleeding Love-style ballads.
Producer
and DJ Avicii – whose real name is Tim Bergling – recorded a dance-pop
song in October last year and was signed up by the Ministry of Sound
label early this year. The song, however, had no vocal track and
Ministry sent out the musical arrangement to various singers in the hope
they would complete the song.
During the spring, the DJ's team
received a vocal track – called Collide – which they rejected in favour
of another singer's efforts, producing a song called Fade Into Darkness.
It was planned to release Fade Into Darkness in October, with a heavy
marketing push in the hope the song would be a hit.
However,
Collide ended up being heard by executives at Syco, Cowell's record
label, and the song was chosen for Leona Lewis to sing. At this point,
according to Bergling's manager Arash Pournouri, he was contacted by a
music executive who said the track had been pitched as a potential
single for Lewis. Pournouri said he would not consent to the use of his
music because he was already committeed to releasing Fade Into Darkness.
Collide
was then first played on BBC Radio 1's Scott Mills' show on 15 July,
and was shortly after made available on YouTube. Pournouri alleges that
Leona Lewis's Collide "is a straight re-recording" of the earlier
version of the song of the same name with the instrumental from Avicii.
A
spokesman for the Ministry of Sound said: "Avicii is an up-and-coming
talent; we think he should be given a fair crack at making this record
the hit it deserves to be." A spokesman for Sony Music – which owns half
of Syco while Cowell owns the balance – said neither it nor any
spokespeople for Syco had any comment to make.