Cortez the Killer — who wrote it?

ISWC T0700285784 Recorded by Neil Young and others✓ No disputed shares

Cortez the Killer was written by Neil Young. US mechanical royalties are collected by Universal Music Corp. (50%), Hipgnosis Side a (50%).

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

2 collecting groups

Linked recordings

1,190

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.

Universal Music Corp. 50%Universal Music Corp. · 50%

Hipgnosis Side a 50%Hipgnosis Side a · 50%

Universal Music Corp. 50% Hipgnosis Side a 50%

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Writer not listed	—		—	50%
Universal Music Corp.	00031312147	Universal Music Corp.		50%
▸Neil Young	00033411035		Composer	50%
Hipgnosis Side a	01066528646	Hipgnosis Side a		50%

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