“To just unofficially release music that I wrote with other people and to not compensate them — that is not how I think business is supposed to be done,” JoJo says during a recent phone conversation.

The case was resolved shortly after JoJo filed a motion for preliminary injunction against Blackground Records, according to JoJo and her lawyers. As a result, JoJo was freed from her contract with Blackground and able to sign a recording agreement with Atlantic Records, which plans to release her third album next year — nearly 10 years after her second. (Read More…)