The Cross — who wrote it?

ISWC T8024434309 Recorded by Scorpions and others✓ No disputed shares

The Cross was written by Matthias Jabs, Martin H Frederiksen, Desmond Child, James Michael. US mechanical royalties are collected by BMG Gold Songs (30%), Concord Bluff Works (30%), Warner-tamerlane Publishing Corp. (30%).

Scorpions

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

5 collecting groups

Linked recordings

matched to this work

Share registered

100%

fully registered

Unclaimed

—

below 1% threshold

Who collects the mechanical royalties

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

BMG Gold Songs 30%BMG Gold Songs · 30%

Concord Bluff Works 30%Concord Bluff Works · 30%

Warner-tamerlane Publishing Corp. 30%Warner-tamerlane Publishing Corp. · 30%

BMG Platinum Songs · 7.5%

Gema · 2.5%

BMG Gold Songs 30% Concord Bluff Works 30% Warner-tamerlane Publishing Corp. 30% BMG Platinum Songs 7.5% Gema 2.5%

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Desmond Child	00045656272		Composer / Lyricist	30%
Destonia	00604778631	BMG Gold Songs	Admin	30%
▸Martin H Frederiksen	00207919852		Composer / Lyricist	30%
Concord Bluff Works	01233872064	Concord Bluff Works		30%
▸James Michael	—		Composer / Lyricist	30%
Little Big Guy Music	00235161691	Warner-tamerlane Publishing Corp.	Admin	15%
Warner-tamerlane Publishing Corp.	00185314175	Warner-tamerlane Publishing Corp.		15%
▸Matthias Jabs	00076067268		Composer / Lyricist	7.5%
BMG Platinum Songs	00595808890	BMG Platinum Songs		7.5%
▸Writer not listed	—		—	2.5%
Gema	00039667444	Gema		2.5%

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