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Alrighty, so Creaky Boards says Coldplay ripped off their song "The Songs I Didn't Write". So let's givem a listen:
First up Creaky Boards "The Songs I Didn't Write"
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Coldplays "Viva la Vida"
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There are only 7 notes. The chord progression is pretty similar, but no musical notes fit together better than those which are exactly one octave apart.
For example, pairs of notes like Middle C and High C, or Middle G and High G. Such pairs arise constantly in popular music, as in the first two notes of the classic Somewhere Over the Rainbow, or the initial "I'm sing..." of Singing in the Rain - or the first two notes of the third line of Happy Birthday.
Often in a symphony, one instrument (like a violin) plays a note one octave above that of another instrument (like a double bass). Piano arrangements inevitably include the same note at different octaves. When improvising in blues or jazz music, it hardly matters which octave you choose to play, just which notes within the octave you choose to play. Notes which are one octave apart sound almost like the same note, or at least a new variation on the same note.
It's inevitable that songs are going to sound alike, and even progress alike.
At any rate, I loaded Viva la Vida and If I Could Fly / The Songs I Didn't Write in Apple Soundtrack--they do not sample the same. That tells me that they're different enough to be different songs.