Sufjan Stevens’ “Happy Birthday”), check out Billboard’s ranking of the 30 best birthday songs below. One of the Fab Four’s more rock-heavy tracks, “Birthday” off their 1968 White ...

Luckily for uniquely named people like me, Greg May has been on a mission to let everyone experience a similar joy in the form of a personalized “Happy Birthday” song he wrote. Truly, no name ...

The company has agreed to pay back $14 million to those who have paid licensing fees to use the song. "This is a huge victory for the public, and for the artists who want to use 'Happy Birthday to ...

Warner/Chappell Music. In February 2016, Warner Music finally ended the long-fought battle when it paid $14 million to put “Happy Birthday” into the public domain. In June of the same year ...

It's a go-to for those looking to avoid "Happy Birthday" royalties — including "Star Trek: The Next Generation," which wished Worf a happy birthday with a Klingon version of the song.

One of Nelson's lawyers, Mark Rivkin, said as Nelson did more and more research on the song's roots, "she got madder and madder and madder." Happy Birthday generates an estimated $2 million a year ...