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BY STEVE KNOPPER

For the last several years, the music business has been unified over one thing: SiriusXM and other digital-radio services must pay royalties for record-ings made before 1972. So, record executives are thrilled about new bipartisan legislation, introduced in Congress late Wednesday, that would provide federal protection to the digital audio transmission of a sound recording fixed before February 15, 1972.

Mike Huppe, president of SoundExchange, said it would fix broken, antiquated policy; Cary Sherman, chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America, called it the right thing to do; the Supremes Mary Wilson, echoing singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge and influential Stax guitarist Steve Cropper, said it was a great step forward.

SiriusXM, however, has not commented on the Compensating Legacy Artists for their Songs, Service & Important Contributions to Society Act, introduced by Reps. Darrell Issa(R-Calif.) and Jerrold Nadler(D-NY) under the acronym CLASSICS. The satellite-radio giant has fought in

court to preserve federal copyright law, which, when established in 1972, did not give protections to songs made before then. (Some states do offer pre-1972 protections, which is why artists and labels have filed lawsuits over royalties in certain states.) Flo and Eddieof the Turtles have filed class-action lawsuits in various states over the unpaid royalties, with mixed success: A New York appeals court dismissed their case this year; Sirius had to pay $210 million to settle with the labels in an earlier decision; a Florida court ruled in Sirius favor in 2015 and the case is pending appeal.

Pandora, which has come around to the record industrys side on the pre-1972 recordings in recent years, issued a statement supporting the new legislation: Its the independent musicians that this bill rightly protects, Steve Ben, the companys general counsel, said in part. But some in the record business have speculated that Pandoras position might evolve, after SiriusXM invested $480 million to take a 16 percent stake in the service.

SiriusXM officials rarely comment on royalty issues, but David Frear, its chief financial officer,

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[In Brief]said in 2014: I think everybody should get paid, and I think everybody should pay. But to get there, there needs to be a change in the laws.

The CLASSICS Act will orbit around more comprehensive copyright legislation introduced by Issa and Nadler earlier this year, according to Huppes Billboard op-ed yesterday. The Fair Play Fair Pay Act, which would also force traditional FM and AM radio stations to pay more comprehensive royalties on recordings, has some bipartisan support, but the National Association of Broadcasters has heavily lobbied against it.

The acrimony over the pre-1972 recordings has increased in recent years, particularly between major labels and SiriusXM, a key promotional outlet for new and old music alike the service recently launched a popular all-Beatles station. We work together on multiple fronts, but theyre also dead set on paying the least possible they can for the rights to broadcast music, says one major-label source. The pre-72 stuff is so important to their stations. But they even said, If we lose [in various court proceedings], maybe we just wont play any of that stuff.

JAY-Zs 4:44 Set for Second Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart, French Montana Heading for Top 5 DebutBY KEITH CAULFIELD

JAY-Zs4:44 will likely spend a second week atop the Billboard 200 albums chart next week, according to industry forecast-ers, while French Montanas new Jungle Rules could bow in the top five. The former may earn more than 100,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 20, while the latter could tally around 50,000 units.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the new Aug. 5-dated Billboard 200 chart

(where JAY-Z is aiming for a second week at No. 1) is scheduled to be revealed on Billboards websites on Sunday, July 23.

4:44 debuted at No. 1, granting JAY-Z his 14th chart-topping album. It bowed with 262,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 13, according to Nielsen Music.

If 4:44 spends a second frame at No. 1, it will give JAY-Z a cumulative total of 25 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Of his 14 No. 1 albums, eight have spent a single week at No. 1 (including 4:44), while four have racked up two weeks at No. 1. Two of his chart-toppers clocked three or more weeks at No. 1: Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life (five weeks at No. 1) and The Blueprint (three weeks at No. 1).

As for French Montana, Jungle Rules his second studio album could earn him his highest-charting effort yet. If it bows at No. 3 or higher, it will surpass the No. 4 peak of his 2013 debut set, Excuse My French.

French Montana will likely be the only debuting title in next weeks top 10, as the next-highest new entry will likely come from Coldplays Kaleidoscope EP, which may launch somewhere in the top 20.

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Linkin Parks Chester Bennington Dead at 41BY JOE LYNCH

Linkin Park frontman Chester Benning-ton has committed suicide at age 41. TMZ first reported that Bennington hanged himself at his Palos Verdes residence on Thursday, July 20, after which the L.A. County coroner confirmed to Associated Press that Bennington had died. Linkin Park bandmate Mike Shinoda tweet-edshocked and heartbroken, but its true. An official statement will come out as soon as we have one.

Bennington struggled with drug and alcohol addictions at various times during his life. He spoke openly about both, as well as about being molested by an older man when he was a child. Bennington was married and is survived by six children.

The bands most recent album, One More Light, topped the Billboard 200 earlier this year.

Linkin Parks massively popular 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory, introduced the world to their immaculately produced hybrid of alt-rock, metal and rap. Its follow-up, 2003s Meteora, became the first of the bands six chart-topping albums. Over the course of seven studio albums and a collaborative EP with JAY-Z, Linkin Park established itself as one of the biggest and most influential rock bands of the 21st century.

Their biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit, In the End from Hybrid Theory, peaked at No. 2 in 2002. Numb from Meteora hit No. 11 in 2004, What Ive Done reached No. 7 in 2007, New Divide peaked at No. 6 in 2009 and Shadow of the Day earned a No. 15 spot in 2008.

In addition to Linkin Park, Bennington formed Dead by Sunrise in 2005, who released one album, Out of Ashes, in 2009. Bennington teamed up with Stone Temple

Pilots after Scott Weilands departure for one EP, High Rise, in 2013.

Chester Benningtons Biggest Billboard HitsBY KEVIN RUTHERFORD

Chester Bennington was at the forefront of nu metals brief affair with the pop charts in the early 2000s as the non-rap vocalist for Linkin Park, one of the eras most suc-cessful bands.

In a career spanning more than two decades and beginning with Linkin Parks first charted title, One Step Closer, in September 2000, Bennington who died Thursday (July 20) in Los Angeles of an appar