Bite the Dust — who wrote it?

no ISWC✓ No disputed shares

Bite the Dust was written by Zainab Elizabeth Donli, Kingsley Chukwudi Okorie, Quddus Babawamide Alexander Quddus. US mechanical royalties are collected by Secretly Canadian Publishing (54.5%).

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

1 collecting groups

Linked recordings

matched to this work

Share registered

54.5%

partial

Unclaimed

45.5%

may be uncollected

⚠ 45.5% of this song is unclaimed at The MLC

Mechanical royalties on 37 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.

Secretly Canadian Publishing 54.5%Secretly Canadian Publishing · 54.5%

Unregistered · 45.5%

Secretly Canadian Publishing 54.5% Unregistered 45.5%

- Secretly Canadian Publishing
  Secretly Canadian Publishing
  54.5%
Zainab Elizabeth DonliUnclaimed
Composer / Lyricist
No publisher collecting
Kingsley Chukwudi OkorieUnclaimed
Composer
No publisher collecting
Quddus Babawamide Alexander QuddusUnclaimed
Composer
No publisher collecting

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Writer not listed	—		—	54.5%
Secretly Canadian Publishing	00666413925	Secretly Canadian Publishing		54.5%
Zainab Elizabeth Donli	—	No publisher collecting	Composer / Lyricist	Unclaimed
Kingsley Chukwudi Okorie	—	No publisher collecting	Composer	Unclaimed
Quddus Babawamide Alexander Quddus	—	No publisher collecting	Composer	Unclaimed

This song is leaving royalties on the table

Unclaimed shares or a missing ISWC mean mechanical royalties go uncollected. We help get it corrected at The MLC.