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James Corden's Carpool Karaoke sketch has generated massive popularity from its viewers. We're predicting his next guest Bruno Mars will tip the rating's scale even more in the show's favor.

Sam Smith, Beyonce and even first lady Michelle Obama have already hopped in and sang along. And now it's going to be Bruno Mars who will be joining Corden on The Late Late Show. The Uptown Funk hitmaker already confirmed this on his Instagram account.

 When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object @j_corden Thanks for the lift.

A photo posted by Bruno Mars (@brunomars) on Nov 19, 2016 at 12:57pm PST

Aside from music and tons of laughter, Mars is also appearing on the show to promote his newest album, 24K Magic. This latest project of his is expected to have more chart-topping hits following Unorthodox Jukebox back in 2012. This included Treasure and Locked Out of Heaven. He's also busy releasing singles in between albums. In 2015 there was Uptown Funk with Mark Ronson. Despite receiving positive reception and rave reviews they also had to deal with copyright infringement issues.

It All Boils Down To Originality

The Minneapolis electro-funk band Collage claimed that Ronson and Mars' song was an 'obvious, strikingly and/or substantially similar copy' of Collage's 1983 hit song Young Girls as noted by Pitchfork. The complaint also noted that Ronson and Mars have admitted how Uptown Funk was influenced by the early eighties Minneapolis electro-funk soul genre. Thus, the band is seeking profits and damages.

Alongside Mars and Ronson, others listed in the lawsuit were Trinidad James, Devon Gallaspy, Jeff Bhasker, Phillip Lawrence, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner/Chappell Music, Atlantic Records, and RCA Records. The estates of the two other band members namely Lee Peters and Grady Wilkins were listed as plaintiffs as well.

Last year, The Gap Band were given songwriting credits on the song after similarities were cited between Uptown Funk and Oops Up Side Your Head, the band's hit back in 1979. If that wasn't enough, The Sequence band this year also claimed that Uptown Funk infringed on their song. They said that Mars and Ronson copied their 1979 single Funk You Up. Good thing, though, they did not bring up a lawsuit.

Phew! Thought we were just gonna do some karaoke singing here? What's with all these copywriting and infringement issues? Tsk, tsk. Hard lesson learned, guys. Just before you go to the studio and cook up something, make sure it's one hundred percent yours. There's a chance you won't get caught. But there's a higher chance you would. So let's just be honest. Be original. No matter how good you sound if people find out it's not yours, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Just saying.

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