Happy Birthday — who wrote it?

ISWC T8007147390 ✓ No disputed shares

Happy Birthday was written by Bernd Breiter, Rainer Kempf, Hans Dieter Stuckert, Peter Weiss, Chrissie Affolder. US mechanical royalties are collected by Universal Music Corp. (60%), Gema (37.5%).

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

2 collecting groups

Linked recordings

matched to this work

Share registered

97.5%

partial

Unclaimed

2.5%

may be uncollected

⚠ 2.5% of this song is unclaimed at The MLC

Mechanical royalties on 5 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.

Universal Music Corp. 60%Universal Music Corp. · 60%

Gema 37.5%Gema · 37.5%

Unregistered · 2.5%

Universal Music Corp. 60% Gema 37.5% Unregistered 2.5%

- Universal/mca Music LTD.
  Universal Music Corp. · Sub-publisher
  30%
- Bkb-musikproduktions-verlag GMBH
  Universal Music Corp. · Sub-publisher
  30%
- Gema
  Gema
  37.5%

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Shared · Bernd Breiter & Chrissie Affolder & Hans Dieter Stuckert & Peter Weiss & Rainer Kempf	—		—	60%
Universal/mca Music LTD.	00282430576	Universal Music Corp.	Sub-publisher	30%
Bkb-musikproduktions-verlag GMBH	00251550000	Universal Music Corp.	Sub-publisher	30%
▸Writer not listed	—		—	37.5%
Gema	00039667444	Gema		37.5%

This song is leaving royalties on the table

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