Underwood realized there was an issue with the music starting and had to quickly improvise. “If you know the words, help me out here,” she said before singing the song a cappella. Former ...

Warner Music Group has acquired a controlling stake in Tempo Music, the owner of a catalog of song rights spanning recordings by Bruno Mars, Adele and Wiz Khalifa. The deal values Tempo at $450 ...

While waiting for her instrumental track to come on, Underwood realized there was an issue with the music starting and had to quickly improvise. “If you know the words, help me out here,” she said ...

but the audio suddenly cut out mere seconds into the song. After a long awkward pause, a White House official appeared to prompt Underwood to sing without the music. Underwood then said to the ...