The Godfather of Soul, James Brown, ruled the charts with this 1972 hit that reached No. 1 54 years ago.

It started a couple years ago when basically everyone started suing Sirius XM and Pandora for playing pre-1972 music without getting a separate license to do so. Once again, the reasoning here is a ...

Quiz: Can you guess the 1972 song from just one lyric? The year 1972 stands as a remarkable chapter in music history, when creativity flourished across ...

Lawmakers in Congress will have more to consider during the next music licensing hearings. Lawsuits related to pre-1972 music copyrights have been filed on both coasts. ABS Entertainment has filed ...

Great albums are recorded and released every year, but I can make a very strong argument that 1972 saw more truly great albums released than any year before or since. To be more precise, I can make ...

A legal battle that lasted for nearly a decade is finally over. Way back in 2015, Pandora agreed to pay millions in back royalties to record labels for songs recorded before Feb. 15, 1972, when the ...

The issue of whether copyrights to older sound recordings like ones owned by The Turtles protect against unauthorized public performance is now headed to a high-stakes showdown at the 2nd Circuit. By ...

Twelve years after releasing the acoustic album Croweology, with a nasty break-up and an unexpected reunion in between, the Black Crowes are finally dropping new music — sort of. “New recordings, old ...

SiriusXM has settled one of several pending lawsuits over payments for pre-1972 recordings with Sony Music for $210 million. It's unclear how much of this will trickle down to artists, but Mike ...