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The House of the Rising Sun — who wrote it?

ISWC T0104344684 Recorded by The Animals and others✓ No disputed shares
Also registered as: LA CASA DEL SOL NACIENTE · AMAZING GRACE · RISING SUN BLUES

The House of the Rising Sun was written by Alan Price. US mechanical royalties are collected by Beechwood Music Corp. (87.5%), Sony/atv Timber Publishing (12.5%).

Writers
1
credited writers
Publishers & admins
4
2 collecting groups
Linked recordings
8,255
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.

Beechwood Music Corp. 87.5%Beechwood Music Corp. · 87.5%
Sony/atv Timber Publishing 12.5%Sony/atv Timber Publishing · 12.5%
Beechwood Music Corp. 87.5% Sony/atv Timber Publishing 12.5%
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