Jennifer Lopez missed out on huge global hit song after rival singer pulled sneaky move to snatch it back

Jennifer Lopez missed out on an iconic, global hit song after her rival pulled a sneaky move.
This week, a fellow R&B singer revealed that she leaked her recording of a song just so that their record label, Columbia Records, wouldn't give it to JLo, who was a bigger artist at the time.
Over two decades ago, newcomer Amerie, 45, was bursting onto the scene in the competitive music industry, then-dominated by Lopez — whom the former said the record label considered an established, 'pinnacle artist.'
Reflecting on that time, on the 20-year anniversary of the famous song, Amerie talked about how she leaked her global hit, 1 Thing, so that it wouldn't become Lopez's.
'1 Thing came out in 2004 because I leaked it over Christmas,' she recalled while making an appearance on Joe Budden 's eponymous podcast this week. 'Because everybody would be on break so they can't stop anything.
'So I was like, "I'm gonna be out here. I'm gonna drop a match",' she confessed. 'For me I was like, "Look, I might get dropped, so I just want people to hear the music.'"
Amerie explained: 'I don't really care about getting paid for it. I just want people to hear it because I believe in it.'
She again recalled how she waited until the record label execs were all on holiday to pull her sneaky stunt.
'And they're on Christmas break, so we can just do it,' she said.
'At the time, they were trying to give the record to somebody else. They were trying to do that but they couldn't,' she said before explaining that she had some rights to the song since she was a writer listed on the track.
'You can't just take it, and that was frustrating for them, I guess.'
She claimed that the record label did not 'totally understand' the hit song they had on their hands and wanted to release the track under a more well-known artist at the time, so she decided to take action herself.
Shortly afterwards, producer Rich Harrison helped Lopez, now 55, record and release Get Right, a track with a similar sound and nearly identical elements.
She also ended the ongoing rumor that Beyoncé's song, Crazy In Love, was supposed to be her record first as she claimed she never even heard the track before Beyoncé got it.
She denied that the up-tempo track was crafted for her as she explained the producer, Harrison, did not play it for her before he did for Beyoncé.
'I didn't hear anything about it, but a lot of people would be like, "Wait, that's not your record? Why didn't he give that record to you?" And I'm like, he never, he never played that record for me,' she told Revolt TV in an interview published on Saturday.
Beyoncé's solo debut project, Dangerously In Love, was a major success upon its release in June 2003, which was two years before 1 Thing was leaked and ever played on the radio.
About the comparison between the similar sounds, Amerie explained that it was because she and Harrison 'created a sound together.'
'After the first video came out, it made a lot of noise, and people, like, really love that album... But during that, he's also a producer that's coming up, so now he has all these people coming to him for records, you know what I mean?
'And we did create a sound together,' she added.
She added: 'There were so many artists who were trying to work with him, so you know, he's going to work with different artists. He's going to have different songs...
'He's gonna want to play some songs for me as his artist, right? But he's going to want to play some songs elsewhere because he's trying to grow and make his name as a producer.'
Her admission comes just weeks after she dropped music for the first time in seven years.
The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter released her new solo single Mine in March, just ahead of her highly anticipated, sixth studio album's release set for sometime in 2025.

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