Editorial Case Study

B.B. King's Live at the Regal: recognition records do not disclose catalog income

By subject: B.B. King

Recording Academy records document public recognition for B.B. King's Live at the Regal and career record. They do not disclose catalog ownership, royalties, or payments to B.B. King or any other participant.

Published August 31, 2026Last reviewed August 31, 2026Reviewed by Andrei Olaru Suggest a correction

Documented Record

What the linked public sources establish

The Recording Academy's GRAMMY Hall Of Fame list identifies Live at the Regal by B.B. King as a 1965 album inducted in 2006. Read source
The Recording Academy's B.B. King artist page records that the album was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2006 and lists B.B. King's career GRAMMY record. Read source

Editorial Reading

How to read that evidence

The two Recording Academy pages document the album's GRAMMY Hall Of Fame recognition and provide career-award context. Neither page is a financial statement.

The records help identify a particular album and its public recognition history. They do not identify the master owner, composition-rights holders, distributors, contract terms, costs, or recipients for any revenue connected to the album.

Evidence in Context

Recognition records identify the work, not its receipts

The two source records agree on the artist, album title, release year, and GRAMMY Hall Of Fame recognition. That provides a clear public record of recognition for this specific album.

Recognition is not a measure of a payment. The sources do not report sales, streams, licenses, costs, or accounting periods, and they do not state which person or company received money from any use of the album.

Evidence in Context

Why catalog history is not an ownership history

An album can include sound recordings and musical compositions that follow separate rights paths. An institutional list does not replace the title-specific documentation needed to identify control or participation in those paths.

A claim about ownership or income would need public records that identify the relevant right, the period and territory of use, contractual shares, deductions, and recipient. The cited recognition records do not provide those details.

Editorial Conclusion

What this evidence supports

The cited sources establish that the 1965 album received GRAMMY Hall Of Fame recognition and provide career-award context. They do not disclose the rights, agreements, accounting, or recipient information required to verify catalog income or ownership.

Research question: What do the public recognition records for Live at the Regal establish, and what would still be needed to verify catalog income or ownership?

Limits

What this case study does not show

The cited sources do not disclose master ownership, publishing ownership, contracts, recoupment, costs, or royalty statements for Live at the Regal.
GRAMMY Hall Of Fame inclusion and career-award records are not evidence of sales, streams, licensing income, or a recipient's share.
This article does not estimate B.B. King's income, an estate's income, catalog value, or any participant's payment.

Sources

Sources used for this case study

Each link is included for the specific context described below. None is a private royalty statement.

primary record

Recording Academy: GRAMMY Hall Of Fame Award

Lists Live at the Regal by B.B. King as a 1965 album inducted into the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame in 2006. It does not disclose ownership or payments.

primary record

Recording Academy: B.B. King awards and biography

Records the Live at the Regal Hall Of Fame recognition and B.B. King's career award history. It is not a rights or accounting record.

rights context

U.S. Copyright Office: Sound recordings and musical compositions

Explains that a sound recording and the musical composition embodied in it are separate copyrighted works. This is general U.S. rights context, not a record of this song's agreements.

Source Maintenance

How this article stays accountable

This article was last reviewed on August 31, 2026 by Andrei Olaru. Its source links, factual framing, and stated limits are reconsidered when a credible public correction or a material update is identified.

A correction can challenge a factual statement with a public, checkable source. It cannot turn a chart, certification, or platform record into a private royalty statement.

Research Record

Source-backed research published before a catalog profile

B.B. King research record is represented here by this reviewed case study. A browseable catalog profile has not been published because the public evidence used here does not support a defensible earnings or ownership claim.