{"id":806155,"date":"2020-04-07T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=979850"},"modified":"2020-04-07T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:00:45","slug":"post-malone-sued-over-circles-songwriting-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/post-malone-sued-over-circles-songwriting-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Malone Sued Over \u2018Circles\u2019 Songwriting Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Post Malone<\/a> is facing a new lawsuit from musician and songwriter Tyler Armes, who claims he was not properly credited or paid for the work he did on Post\u2019s hit single, \u201cCircles.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit, obtained by Rolling Stone<\/i>, accuses the rapper, whose real name is Austin Post, and his producer Frank Dukes of a \u201cbad faith refusal to accord Tyler Armes the credit and share of the profits he is due as a co-writer of the song \u2018Circles.’\u201d It alleges that Post Malone has \u201cfreely admitted that Armes co-wrote \u2018Circles,’\u201d but despite Armes\u2019 repeated efforts to \u201camicably resolve this matter, Post and Dukes have steadfastly refused to give Armes the credit and share of the profits he is due.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither a lawyer for Armes nor a rep for Post immediately returned Rolling Stone<\/i>\u2018s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Armes was a member of the successful Canadian outfit Down With Webster and currently plays in the band Honors. He\u2019s written music for numerous television programs and ad campaigns; the suit states he\u2019s also collaborated with top songwriters and producers such as Timbaland, Murda Beatz, Justin Tranter and Jesse Saint John. He claims that Post Malone\u2019s manager, Dre London, orchestrated the collaboration with Post and Dukes, which took place at Dukes\u2019 studio in August 2018 and resulted in the song \u201cCircles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Per the suit, Armes co-wrote and\/or offered input on several elements of the song, including the chords, the bass line and the guitar parts, including \u201cthe guitar melody which is played in the introduction to the song and which repeats throughout the song.\u201d It goes on to allege that other than most of the lyrics and the bridge vocal melody, \u201call instrumentation and vocal melodies in the song recorded at Dukes\u2019 studio\u201d that night appeared on the final version of \u201cCircles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On August 5th, 2019, the suit claims that London posted a snippet of \u201cCircles\u201d on Instagram, after which Armes sent London a letter describing his contributions to the song and requesting he ask Post about providing him \u201ccredit and minimal [publishing].\u201d London allegedly replied several days later, saying, \u201cJust showed Posty the message. He said he remembers. U played a tune on the bass then he played more after it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armes claims he was originally offered five percent of the publishing royalties, but he and his representatives tried to negotiate a larger percentage that \u201cmore fairly reflected\u201d his contributions, along with a co-writer and co-producer credit. The suit claims that Austin Rosen, another manager for Post Malone and Dukes, allegedly rebuffed them by suggesting, per the suit, that if \u201cArmes was unwilling to accept Post\u2019s so-called \u2018gift\u2019 of five percent of the publishing then he would get nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suit claims that by refusing to give Armes proper credit, the defendants have \u201cprevented Armes from capitalizing on the success of the song in order to further his career in the music industry.\u201d The lawsuit seeks proper credit on \u201cCircles\u201d for Armes, as well as prospective and retroactive royalties, plus other money from the song, based on a percentage to be determined at trial.<\/p>\n

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Post Malone is facing a new lawsuit from musician and songwriter Tyler Armes, who claims he was not properly credited or paid for the work he did on Post\u2019s hit single, \u201cCircles.\u201d The suit, obtained by Rolling Stone, accuses the rapper, whose real name is Austin Post, and his producer Frank Dukes of a \u201cbad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 23:29:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}