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Songwriters: find every registration of your songs, under every name you’re filed as
Registered as “Mick” on some songs and “Michael” on others, with a middle name and without, or under a second IPI name number? Then your works are split across those registrations, and the ones nobody connects to you may not pay you. Look yourself up for free, and keep what you find in a free account.
Free, and nothing to sign up for. Try the name on your society membership first, then the name you write under.
About 1 in 3 songwriters in rights registrations have works filed under another spelling or IPI number.
Songlinks sample of 280 writers drawn from registration lines, September 2026: 92 of 280, ±5.5 points. Groupings are statistical and unverified.
How one writer ends up as several registrations
- A short name and a long one. “Mick” on one song, “Michael” on the next, filed by different publishers or in different years.
- A middle name, or an initial, on some registrations only.
- A typo, or another spelling of a name written in another alphabet.
- A second IPI name number. Each name you are registered under gets its own number: what an IPI name number is.
Each registration is a name, not a person, and nothing in the data says they are you. Songlinks groups them, shows the evidence for each join, and shows which ones it thinks might be you but has not joined.
Why sign up: it’s free
- Say which registrations are yours. Record each one as you, not you, or unsure — including the ones Songlinks left unjoined. It stays in your account.
- A worksheet for your publisher. Every work under those registrations, with what you recorded, to hand to your publisher or administrator, who can file the correction.
- Keep yourself and your co-writers on a roster, read afresh each time you open it: how many works sit on each writer’s main number, and how many only elsewhere.
- Share it with your manager or admin, and download everything the account holds, any time.
Who fixes a registration
Only whoever made a registration, or the society holding it, can change it: usually your publisher or administrator, or you, if you administer your own publishing. How works under another spelling or number get fixed, and three ways to check your registrations.
Good to know
- The groupings are statistical and unverified. A model decides which registrations are one person, and no person has checked its answers. Every join shows its evidence, so check the ones that matter.
- The data is a snapshot of public registration data that does not state its own date, so a very recent registration may not be in it yet.
- Songlinks shows registrations; it does not change them, and it says nothing about what anyone is owed. Only whoever made a registration, or the society holding it, can change it: how works under another spelling or number get fixed.
Songlinks is in beta. Why one songwriter has many registrations · questions people send us.