Why Did I Choose You? — who wrote it?

ISWC T0702014387 Recorded by Marvin Gaye and others✓ No disputed shares

Also registered as: WHY DID I CHOOSE YOU

Why Did I Choose You? was written by Herbert Martin, Michael Leonard. US mechanical royalties are collected by Kobalt Music Pub America INC (75%), Ruminating Music (25%).

Marvin Gaye

Writers

credited writers

Publishers & admins

2 collecting groups

Linked recordings

1,730

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.

Kobalt Music Pub America INC 75%Kobalt Music Pub America INC · 75%

Ruminating Music 25%Ruminating Music · 25%

Kobalt Music Pub America INC 75% Ruminating Music 25%

- Edwin H. Morris & Company
  Kobalt Music Pub America INC · Sub-publisher
  75%
- Ruminating Music
  Ruminating Music · Admin
  25%

Writer / Publisher / Administrator	IPI	Collected by	Role	Share
▸Shared · Herbert Martin & Michael Leonard	—		—	75%
Edwin H. Morris & Company	—	Kobalt Music Pub America INC	Sub-publisher	75%
▸Writer not listed	—		—	25%
Ruminating Music	00719510938	Ruminating Music	Admin	25%

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