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 ...

Neither side immediately returned requests for comment on the withdrawal of the case. Trending on Billboard In their May lawsuit, members of Da Showstoppaz accused Beyoncé (Beyoncé Knowles ...

Trending on Billboard “After numerous unsuccessful ... Lawyers for the three accusers say that reps for Ye reached out to clear the sample in February, after “Fuk” had already been released.

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 ...

By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer Billboard Arabia has launched a new initiative called Sounds of the Land to help showcase music from across the region. A collection of samples, the recordings ...

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 ...

By Bill Donahue Ye (formerly Kanye West) has reached a settlement in a copyright lawsuit that accused him of using an uncleared sample from ... Trending on Billboard Filed in November 2022 ...

"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 ...