A viral podcast clip put a nine-figure number on Jill Scott's exit from Hidden Beach. The actual 2010 complaint, and the settlement that followed, tell a stranger story about what leaving a label really costs.

Durk Banks was found not guilty on all five counts Friday, while two co-defendants were convicted of stalking. The split verdict shows exactly where the government's case broke.

Jay-Z's best album landed in stores the morning the towers fell, sold 427,000 copies anyway, and became the record a wounded city adopted without ever mentioning the date. On its 25th anniversary, the story of how that happened.

Rod Wave has added eight shows to his Don't Look Down Tour, turning Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, Brooklyn, Chicago, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale and Atlanta into multi-date stops.

The PCD Forever Tour opened in Copenhagen with 20 dates left of the 53 announced, Lil' Kim on support, and three of six Dolls onstage. Here is what is actually left.

Jhene Aiko's first solo album in six years leads a Friday where EST Gee, Rio Da Yung OG and Ro$ama each ship twenty tracks or more. Plus the corrections three calendars need.

"Juicy" arrives Thursday, and the loudest conversation around it is about how it got here. Victoria Monét's answer involves a 916 area code, twenty-plus stadium performances, and a definition of rollout that streaming culture forgot.

A three-year fight over the most valuable name in soul music ended in August with the registration unchanged. Here is what filing an artist name actually costs, which classes decide what you own, and where applications die.

Authentic Brands Group owns 51% of OVO's trademarks, Drake owns 44%, and Vince Holding Corp. now runs the stores under a license that stretches past 2050. The SEC filings show where the $117.6 million goes and what Drake actually kept.

Jhené Aiko will release Westside Whimsy on September 11, ending a six-year album absence with a three-day rollout and a project rooted in California culture.

Chlöe returns to the center of the dance floor in the choreography video for “World On Fire,” the latest visual from her collaborative mixtape with Timbaland, Resurrection.

A single sentence buried in a 1965 distribution contract cut the Stax catalog in half, and the halves have never been reunited. This month one of them landed inside the newly merged BMG and Concord.