MetadataThird Chair

The Bird — who wrote it?

no ISWCRecorded by The Time and others✓ No disputed shares

The Bird was written by Morris Day, Prince Rogers Nelson. US mechanical royalties are collected by Universal Music Works (66.66%), Morris E. Day Songs Morris E. Day Publishing (33.34%).

Writers
2
credited writers
Publishers & admins
4
2 collecting groups
Linked recordings
106
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.

Universal Music Works 66.66%Universal Music Works · 66.66%
Morris E. Day Songs Morris E. Day Publishing 33.34%Morris E. Day Songs Morris E. Day Publishing · 33.34%
Universal Music Works 66.66% Morris E. Day Songs Morris E. Day Publishing 33.34%
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