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John Fogerty’s new Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years (John’s Version) collection, a set of re-recorded hits from his years as frontman of Creedence Clearwater Revival, makes a top 10 debut on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart. The set launches at No. 9 with nearly 8,000 copies sold in the United States in the week ending Aug. 28, according to Luminate.
The project also bows on the Americana/Folk Albums chart (No. 13) and Independent Albums (No. 35).
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Creedence Clearwater Revival earned 16 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart from 1968-76, including nine top 10s (six of which peaked at No. 2). Among Creedence’s Hot 100 hits that Fogerty re-recorded for the new album: “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Down on the Corner” and “Up Around the Bend” — all of which were top five-charting singles.
Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart ranks the top-selling albums of the week based only on traditional album sales. The chart’s history dates back to May 25, 1991, the first week Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Pure album sales were the sole measurement utilized by the Billboard 200 albums chart through the list dated Dec. 6, 2014, after which that chart switched to a methodology that blends album sales with track equivalent album (TEA) units and streaming equivalent album (SEA) units.
Stray Kids collect its seventh No. 1 on Top Album Sales, as KARMA bows atop the list with the second-largest sales week of 2025: 296,000 copies sold. Only the debut frame of The Weeknd’s Hurry Up Tomorrow posted a bigger sales week, when it started with 359,000.
KARMA and Legacy are two of eight debuts or reentrys in the top 10 this week, joined by Laufey’s A Matter of Time (No. 2 debut), Deftones’ private music (No. 3 debut), Tyler, The Creator’s Cherry Bomb (No. 4 reentry), Three Days Grace’s Alienation (No. 6 debut), The Who’s Live at the Oval, 1971 (No. 7 debut) and The Warning’s Live From Auditorio Nacional, CDMX (No. 8 debut). The only holdovers in the top 10 are the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack (which climbs 9-5) and TOMORROW X TOGETHER’s chart-topping The Star Chapter : TOGETHER (falling 5-10).
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Ye (formerly Kanye West) has been sued for allegedly sampling a 1975 soul song without permission on his 2022 album Donda 2, marking the latest in a long line of similar copyright lawsuits against the controversial rapper.
A legal complaint filed Thursday (Sept. 4) in federal court claims the Donda 2 track “LORD LIFT ME UP” includes a blatant sample of the song “Just Out of My Reach” by soul artist Sam Dees. The lawsuit is brought by an entity called The GRC Trust on behalf of Ginn Music Group, an Atlanta-based catalog company that owns Dees’ publishing.
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“At no point…did defendants obtain authorization from GRC to use the composition in connection with the infringing work,” reads the complaint. “Defendants continue to exploit and receive monies from the infringing work, respectively, in violation of GRC’s rights in his composition.”
The lawsuit brings copyright infringement claims against Ye, his company Yeezy LLC and the rapper Vory (Tavoris Javon Hollins), who is featured on “LORD LIFT ME UP.”
Also named in the complaint are London-based tech firm Kano Computing and its founder, Alex Klein. Kano partnered with Ye to release the rapper’s branded Stem Player device, which was the only way to listen to Donda 2 when the album was first released in February 2022 (Ye released the LP on streaming for the first time just this year).
GRC is asking for a judge to enter a legal injunction against Ye and award the publishing company “all profits of defendants … plus all losses of GRC, plus any other monetary advantage gained by the defendants through their infringement.”
Reps for Ye, Vory and Kano did not immediately return requests for comment on Thursday.
Ye has been sued repeatedly over the course of his career for supposedly using uncleared samples. Such lawsuits have been brought over the years by everyone from the estate of Donna Summer to a pastor whose sermon was allegedly sampled on the first Donda LP.
Thursday’s lawsuit is the second to claim infringement on the Donda 2 album. The first — brought by publisher Ultra International over an alleged sample of the 1986 Marshall Jefferson house track “Move Your Body” on the song “Flowers” — was confidentially settled in 2023.
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