Telephone — who wrote it?

ISWC T8007758579 Recorded by Chaka Khan and others✓ No disputed shares

Telephone was written by Hans Juergen Buchner, Chaka Khan. US mechanical royalties are collected by Hot Blue Fire Music (50%), Gema (12.5%).

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

2 collecting groups

Linked recordings

matched to this work

Share registered

62.5%

partial

Unclaimed

37.5%

may be uncollected

⚠ 37.5% of this song is unclaimed at The MLC

Mechanical royalties on 57 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.

Hot Blue Fire Music 50%Hot Blue Fire Music · 50%

Gema 12.5%Gema · 12.5%

Unregistered · 37.5%

Hot Blue Fire Music 50% Gema 12.5% Unregistered 37.5%

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Writer not listed	—		—	62.5%
Hot Blue Fire Music	—	Hot Blue Fire Music		50%
Gema	00039667444	Gema		12.5%
Hans Juergen Buchner	—	No publisher collecting	Composer	Unclaimed
Chaka Khan	—	No publisher collecting	Composer	Unclaimed

This song is leaving royalties on the table

Unclaimed shares or a missing ISWC mean mechanical royalties go uncollected. We help get it corrected at The MLC.