Friends — who wrote it?

ISWC T9028647269 ✓ No disputed shares

Friends was written by Mitchell Allan Scherr, Kara E Dioguardi. US mechanical royalties are collected by BMG Firefly (50%), BMG Bumblebee (7.5%).

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

2 collecting groups

Linked recordings

matched to this work

Share registered

57.5%

partial

Unclaimed

42.5%

may be uncollected

⚠ 42.5% of this song is unclaimed at The MLC

Mechanical royalties on 1 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.

BMG Firefly 50%BMG Firefly · 50%

BMG Bumblebee · 7.5%

Unregistered · 42.5%

BMG Firefly 50% BMG Bumblebee 7.5% Unregistered 42.5%

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Mitchell Allan Scherr	00343580369		Composer / Lyricist	37.5%
Matzoh Ball Music INC	00348237647	BMG Firefly	Admin	37.5%
▸Writer not listed	—		—	12.5%
BMG Firefly	00725496126	BMG Firefly	Admin	12.5%
▸Kara E Dioguardi	00186947510		Composer / Lyricist	7.5%
BMG Bumblebee	00722300987	BMG Bumblebee		7.5%

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.