MetadataThird Chair

Best Friend — who wrote it?

ISWC T9191450609 ✓ No disputed shares
Also registered as: BEST FRIEND*

Best Friend was written by Mario Mendell Winans, Philip Martin II Lawrence, Peter Gene Hernandez. US mechanical royalties are collected by Sony/atv Songs LLC (50%), Music of Windswept (21.88%), Word Collections, INC. (15%).

Writers
3
credited writers
Publishers & admins
8
4 collecting groups
Linked recordings
40
matched to this work
Share registered
90%
partial
Unclaimed
10%
may be uncollected
⚠ 10% of this song is unclaimed at The MLC
Mechanical royalties on 40 recordings may be going uncollected. We find who’s missing and help recover it.

Who collects the mechanical royalties

US mechanical shares as registered at The MLC · each writer’s chain: writer → publisher → administrator.

Sony/atv Songs LLC 50%Sony/atv Songs LLC · 50%
Music of Windswept 21.88%Music of Windswept · 21.88%
Word Collections, INC. 15%Word Collections, INC. · 15%
Warner Geo Met Ric Music · 3.12%
Unregistered · 10%
Sony/atv Songs LLC 50% Music of Windswept 21.88% Word Collections, INC. 15% Warner Geo Met Ric Music 3.12% Unregistered 10%
This song is leaving royalties on the table
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