If I Didn't Know Better — who wrote it?

ISWC T0718834797 Recorded by Luther Vandross and others✓ No disputed shares

Also registered as: IF I DIDNT KNOW BETTER

If I Didn't Know Better was written by Ezekiel Lewis, Luther R. Vandross, Reed Philip Vertelney. US mechanical royalties are collected by Emi April Music INC (75%), Chrysalis Songs (17.5%), Songs of Windswept Pacific (7.5%).

Luther Vandross

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

3 collecting groups

Linked recordings

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 75%Emi April Music INC · 75%

Chrysalis Songs 17.5%Chrysalis Songs · 17.5%

Songs of Windswept Pacific · 7.5%

Emi April Music INC 75% Chrysalis Songs 17.5% Songs of Windswept Pacific 7.5%

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Luther R. Vandross	00076343959		Composer	75%
Uncle Ronnie's Music Co. LTD.	00051294299	Emi April Music INC	Admin	37.5%
Emi April Music INC	00128633767	Emi April Music INC		37.5%
▸Reed Philip Vertelney	00214758664		Composer	8.75%
Vertelney Music	00189653515	Chrysalis Songs	Admin	8.75%
▸Writer not listed	—		—	8.75%
Chrysalis Songs	00650318566	Chrysalis Songs		8.75%
▸Ezekiel Lewis	00189118737		Composer	7.5%
Hitco Music	00189654316	Songs of Windswept Pacific		7.5%

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