Keen eared dance fans might’ve been a little bit confused recently when two singles bearing the same name and released in close proximity to one another were vying for attention and domination on the Australian charts. We’re talking of course about We Run The Nite / We Run The Night, the namesake singles released by Tonite Only and DJ-turned-pop-star Havana Brown.

While Tonite Only’s We Run The Nite served as the official comeback single for the resurrected project from Sam La More and GT, received love on alternative radio and scaled the top of the ARIA club chart, Havana Brown’s same-named single was released just after Tonite Only’s, quickly hitting the main singles chart and ranking as the top result for We Run The… on iTunes.

According to GT and La More, the Tonite Only single was originally written in the middle of 2010 and taken to Ministry Of Sound shortly afterwards. And it gets even stranger to hear that Havana Brown’s version was written by Snob Scrilla, GT’s partner in the Cutlass Supreme project. So did Havana Brown benefit from lifted ideas? Or is it just a bizarre coincidence in Australia’s insular music industry? We’re still not sure but La More was forthcoming about Tonite Only’s issue with Havana Brown’s single when speaking to inthemix over email.

“Havana came to meet me in February this year to discuss writing and producing a hit for her. However, when she played me the demo of her first single We Run The Night, I laughed then played her ours,” La More wrote. “Honestly, I was embarrassed for her. She is so innocent – it is not like she calls the shots. It was written for her by Snob Scrilla and his girlfriend. Really, he should have known better than to do that to her. Ours was written in August last year and took a lot longer to release than we wanted, so that gave them time to get the jump on us.”

While both Tonite Only producers were clearly irked that their single had inadvertent competition from a namesake, La More explained that they hadn’t seen a noticeable dip in reactions, with their own single spending a whopping 10 weeks at #1 on the club charts.

“I don’t think it stole our heat,” La More offered. “We are in a different world. I suppose that is what happens to ‘artists’ who don’t write or produce their own work. I would rather be an authentic failure than a fraudulent superstar.”

You can hear both takes on the We Run The Night title below and judge for yourself which Australian electronic act comes out on top.