MetadataThird Chair

What a Shame — who wrote it?

ISWC T9164957419 Recorded by Rick Ross and others✓ No disputed shares

What a Shame was written by Salahadeen Wilds, Saladine T Wallace, William Leonard Roberts, Clifford Smith, Lamont Jody Hawkins, Dennis David Coles, Gary E Grice, Jason S Hunter, Robert F Diggs, Russell T Jones, Kevin Bion Spencer, Ricky Darnell Smith, Richard Kevin Randolph, Rory W Quigley, David Anthony Willis, Corey Woods. US mechanical royalties are collected by Songs of Universal, INC. (18.76%), Emi Blackwood Music INC (9.38%), Universal Music Corp. (8.34%).

Writers
16
credited writers
Publishers & admins
11
7 collecting groups
Linked recordings
137
matched to this work
Share registered
55.13%
partial
Unclaimed
44.87%
may be uncollected
⚠ 44.87% of this song is unclaimed at The MLC
Mechanical royalties on 137 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.

Songs of Universal, INC. 18.76%Songs of Universal, INC. · 18.76%
Emi Blackwood Music INC 9.38%Emi Blackwood Music INC · 9.38%
Universal Music Corp. · 8.34%
Reservoir Media Music · 6.25%
Universal Music-careers · 6.24%
Universal - Songs of Polygram International INC · 4.16%
Hector Devin Marin · 2%
Unregistered · 44.87%
Songs of Universal, INC. 18.76% Emi Blackwood Music INC 9.38% Universal Music Corp. 8.34% Reservoir Media Music 6.25% Universal Music-careers 6.24% Universal - Songs of Polygram International INC 4.16% Hector Devin Marin 2% Unregistered 44.87%
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