Heartbreak Hotel — who wrote it?

ISWC T0708990355 Recorded by Whitney Houston and others✓ No disputed shares

Heartbreak Hotel was written by Kenneth Karlin, Carsten Schack, Savage Tamara. US mechanical royalties are collected by Emi April Music INC (50%), Seeker From the Speaker Music (25%), Emi Blackwood Music INC (25%).

Whitney Houston

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

3 collecting groups

Linked recordings

1,135

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.

Emi April Music INC 50%Emi April Music INC · 50%

Seeker From the Speaker Music 25%Seeker From the Speaker Music · 25%

Emi Blackwood Music INC 25%Emi Blackwood Music INC · 25%

Emi April Music INC 50% Seeker From the Speaker Music 25% Emi Blackwood Music INC 25%

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Savage Tamara	00341337586		Composer / Lyricist	50%
Marshai Publishing	00341311413	Emi April Music INC	Admin	25%
Emi April Music INC	00128633767	Emi April Music INC		25%
▸Carsten Schack	00220457402		Composer / Lyricist	25%
Seeker From the Speaker Music	01037198849	Seeker From the Speaker Music		25%
▸Kenneth Karlin	00228747934		Composer / Lyricist	25%
Soulvang Music	00189507430	Emi Blackwood Music INC	Admin	12.5%
Emi Blackwood Music INC	00223437493	Emi Blackwood Music INC		12.5%

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