Coldplay reject plagiarism claims over new single

Coldplay have rejected claims that their new single borrows from a Euro house hit, explaining they paid the songwriters for permission. A spokesperson for the band has confirmed that Peter Allen and Adrienne Anderson are credited on Coldplay's Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall, after Chris Martin was inspired by the 1990 dance single, Ritmo de la Noche.
It didn't take long for accusations of plagiarism to surface: within hours of Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall's debut on Friday, bloggers were pointing out its similarity to Ritmo de la Noche by Mystic. But Mystic's own single was recycled: Ritmo de la Noche is based on a riff from Allen and Anderson's 1976 tune, I Go to Rio.