MetadataThird Chair

Free the Music — who wrote it?

ISWC T9314752993 Recorded by The New Power Generation and others✓ No disputed shares

Free the Music was written by Lloyd Sonny Thompson, Michael a. Bland, Prince Rogers Nelson, Morris K. Hayes, Tommy Barbarella. US mechanical royalties are collected by Universal Music Corp. (80%), Universal Music Works (20%).

Writers
5
credited writers
Publishers & admins
3
2 collecting groups
Linked recordings
19
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. 80%Universal Music Corp. · 80%
Universal Music Works 20%Universal Music Works · 20%
Universal Music Corp. 80% Universal Music Works 20%
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