James Brown returned to a Billboard chart thanks to a prominent sample. Luther Vandross and Cheryl Lynn did not. When it comes to samples, "everything is negotiable." By Elias Leight In early ...

The lawsuit is the latest in a string of cases to claim that a legally-cleared sample featured uncleared ... Trending on Billboard “Wanna Be,” released by Megan and GloRilla in early April ...

Billboard rounded up rap, R&B and Afrobeats songs by Rema, MF DOOM, Snoop Dogg, Burna Boy, Ashanti, Nipsey Hussle and Queen Latifah that sample and interpolate Sade. By Heran Mamo Rema‘s latest ...

By Trevor Anderson James Brown, the trailblazing Godfather of Soul who passed in 2006, places a new song on a Billboard chart for the first time since 1993 as his co-billed collaboration with ...

"We get so many requests for these songs, and when we saw that request, we just said no way," she tells Billboard ... 9), saying that West had asked to sample a song but was “refused permission ...

By Bill Donahue Bad Bunny is facing a lawsuit over allegations that a track from his chart-topping Un Verano Sin Ti featured an unlicensed sample from ... Trending on Billboard “It is not ...