Prosecutions against Universal Music Group are expected next week in response to the 2008 fire

The total number of master recordings lost in the fire could reach 500,000 records, the report says. The story says that only a fraction of the originals preserved in the establishment were adequately copied, resulting in the loss of irreplaceable original masters of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, the Eagles , Elton John, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Muddy Waters, Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Bing Crosby and dozens, if not hundreds, if not thousands of other artists.