Son Tung M-TP's 'Making My Way' Wins Many Achievements Amidst Plagiarism Suspicions
Besides a series of outstanding achievements, Son Tung M-TP's song Making My Way quickly became embroiled in suspicions of plagiarizing foreign music.
At exactly 0:00 on May 5, Son Tung M-TP released the audio version of the songMaking my way, marking the return after more than a year of silence. With a positive message towards the future, leaving behind past sorrows,Making my wayquickly received the attention of a large audience. Son Tung M-TP and the name of the new song became keywords widely discussed on social networking platforms, forums, and groups.
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Son Tung M-TP continues to prove his appeal throughMaking my way. |
After 24 hours of release,Making my wayachieved many impressive results, even though the official MV has not been released. In the digital music segment,Making my wayIt took only a short time to reach No. 1 on iTunes Vietnam and Apple Music Vietnam. Notably, the song also took the top position on the iTunes charts of Singapore, Japan and Taiwan, and appeared in the iTunes top of Germany (No. 4), the US (No. 6), and Canada (No. 6), demonstrating the male singer's influence in the foreign market.
On the Spotify "front", Son Tung M-TP reached 1,000,000 listens at exactly 10:25 a.m. on May 6. Unlike his habit of always sharing the song's YouTube link on his social media account for promotion, the 9X singer focused entirely on the digital music platforms Spotify and Apple Music. This was a somewhat risky move because YouTube has always been the Thai Binh singer's forte over the past years.
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The new song quickly brought Son Tung a series of impressive achievements. |
However, although not focused on by Son Tung, on YouTube, the visualizer version ofMaking my wayIt took less than 7 hours to rise to the top of the trending music list and Top 1 overall trending in Vietnam. After 24 hours, the song also brought the artist from Thai Binh 5.5 million views and more than half a million likes. Notably, the visualizer ofMaking my wayalso rose straight to the top 1 most viewed video in the past 24 hours worldwide and top 1 trending in Japan, top 6 trending in Canada, top 7 trending in the US, top 14 trending in the UK...
In addition to the impressive numbers above,Making my wayalso attracted the attention of domestic and international media. Many newspapers and news sites from Southeast Asian countries (Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia) as well as Korea, Australia... reported on the singer's comeback product.We of the present.
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Son Tung M-TP once again got into a plagiarism controversy withMaking my way. |
Besides a series of outstanding achievements,Making my wayquickly caught up in plagiarism allegations. Accordingly, many audiences believe that the song has similar music to the hitUnforgettableby the American singing duo - French Montana and Swae Lee. This song was released in 2017, currently has more than 1.5 billion views on YouTube. The above story quickly became a topic of interest and heated discussion among netizens with many conflicting opinions.
Some people were not surprised because this was not the first time Son Tung had encountered controversy over this issue: "Just tried listening to Son Tung's song, it's exactly like the songUnforgettable"French Montana's", "It's no surprise that there are always plagiarism allegations", "The boss still plagiarizes music", "It's no surprise, Son Tung's music writing style has always been to take a little bit from famous hits"... However, some people think that the coincidence that people mention is because the two songs have similar styles and genres.
Many viewers commented: "That's a music trend, fashion has trends and so does music", "Sample beats (sample rhythms) if the copyright is bought then it's not plagiarism. Many US-UK songs use each other's beats, it's like singing to ask for copyright from the company, this is making music. If Son Tung bought the sample beat then it's fine", "There are many songs made with this beat, it's Latin music", "If you separate the two songs and listen to them, they don't sound similar at all"...