Mattie Music Group says Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copies the melody of "Just the Two of Us," but its suit targets UMG, Capitol, Sony and Kobalt instead of Dean. Here is what the complaint claims, what it leaves out and what writers can learn from it.

The Building the Band quartet that lost on Netflix just released its Atlantic debut. History says TV-made R&B groups burn fast, but Soulidified spent a year building its audience without a camera in the room.

After four albums with RCA, Nao is releasing Autumn on her own Little Tokyo Recordings on October 16, the first chapter of a four-album series that starts with jazz.

Yung Miami has put a date and some serious weight behind her first post-City Girls solo album. Watch Dis arrives October 23 with 20 tracks and guests including Quavo, Lil Baby, G Herbo, Kodak Black, Shenseea and Vybz Kartel.

Lucky Daye turns romantic distance into an invitation to reconnect on “Talk to Me,” the latest single from his forthcoming album ALOUD!, arriving October 16 via Warner Records.

Ari Lennox adds nine songs to Vacancy with Late Checkout, an expansion substantial enough to feel less like bonus material and more like another chapter of the album.

Guarantees, door deals, versus deals, merch cuts and commissions decide whether a first tour pays. Here is how the money moves, with the numbers on the record.

Victoria Monét's 22-track Frequency of Love leads a stacked Oct 2, with Quavo's Pharrell-produced QRÖMELIFE, Yung Miami's double offering, and a Mac Miller anniversary edition with three unreleased songs.

Lalah Hathaway's ninth album is here, nine songs co-produced with Phil Beaudreau and released on the day her father would have turned 81. Here's what's on it and where she's taking it.

Lil Nas X is back with "World's Greatest!", a self-written single and Phillip Youmans-directed video introduced by a voicemail from his late mother.

Rapsody plays four unplugged shows in October, opening in Crown Heights and closing at Blue Note Los Angeles, the Sunset jazz club she already headlined in February.

Boosie Badazz and Webbie have set Back At It for Oct 24, the first project billed to the two of them alone since Gangsta Musik. Here is the Trill history behind it and the Baton Rouge it returns to.