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High street store HMV is being prosecuted for allowing Britain's Got Talent finalist Faryl Smith to sing during an album signing at one of their stores.
The 14-year-old from Northamptonshire was signing copies of her debut album called Faryl when she started to belt out a song from the record.
But the HMV store at the Newlands shopping centre had not applied for the entertainment licence necessary so the mezzo-soprano could perform at the event last March.
Kettering Borough Council claimed the firm has since refused to apply for a licence - which costs £21 - retrospectively and was now being prosecuted.
A spokeswoman for the authority said: "It's a routine prosecution. It doesn't matter who the artist is. We offered HMV the opportunity to apply for a retrospective licence but they refused."
But an HMV spokesman later denied the company had been offered the chance to apply for a retrospective licence.
No action is being taken against Faryl, the council added.
