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Olivia Dean accused of copying Bill Withers song

Rank
Ran: 24h
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 7
Regions: 1
Countries: 5
Languages: 4

BBC News United Kingdom · English 2 Oct, 09:51 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Italiano (2) · +2 languages

Read at BBC News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: BBC News, 2 Oct, 09:51 UTC.
Second country: Netherlands, with NU.nl.
Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Europe 7 outlets · 5 countries · 100%

First movers

BBC News 2 Oct, 09:51 UTC
The Independent +4h 43m
NU.nl +7h 54m
VG +11h 27m
Irish Independent +18h 39m

Last to join

Il Post 3 Oct, 10:17 UTC
Rai News 3 Oct, 06:09 UTC
Irish Independent 3 Oct, 04:30 UTC
VG 2 Oct, 21:18 UTC
NU.nl 2 Oct, 17:45 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 5 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 2 public-service, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Europe 5: Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian.
Timeline: Earliest article BBC News, 2 Oct 2026, 09:51 UTC. First seen 2 Oct 2026, 10:10 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 10:17 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region International. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

2 Oct 2026 329 3.49 4 3 4 3 4.0

3 Oct 2026 365 2.27 7 5 3 2 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 2 Oct, 10:10 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 10:17 UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Europe 7 outlets

Il Post Italy 3 Oct, 10:17 UTC
La cantante Olivia Dean è stata accusata di aver plagiato la celebre canzone “Just the Two of Us”
Rai News Italy 3 Oct, 06:09 UTC
Olivia Dean sotto accusa: un suo brano copia “Just the Two of Us”?
Irish Independent Ireland 3 Oct, 04:30 UTC
Olivia Dean accused of copying Bill Withers’s Just the Two of Us
VG Norway 2 Oct, 21:18 UTC
Olivia Dean saksøkt for å ha kopiert soul-klassiker
NU.nl Netherlands 2 Oct, 17:45 UTC
Olivia Dean beschuldigd van kopiëren Just The Two of Us van Bill Withers
The Independent United Kingdom 2 Oct, 14:34 UTC
Olivia Dean accused of copying Bill Withers’ song ‘Just the Two of Us’
BBC News United Kingdom 2 Oct, 09:51 UTC
Olivia Dean accused of copying Bill Withers' Just The Two of Us

Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
2 Oct 2026	329	3.49	4	3	4	3	4.0
3 Oct 2026	365	2.27	7	5	3	2	4.0