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Songwriter registration guides
What songwriter registration data looks like up close, and why finding one writer’s works is harder than it should be. The figures come from the registration data Songlinks reads.
Why one songwriter appears many times in rights registrations
Spellings, stage names, more than one IPI name number, records with no number at all, and different people with the same name.
IPI name numbers: what the number on a registration tells you
An IPI name number belongs to a name, not to a person. What that means when you match registrations.
Why many registered works have no ISWC
A third of the works in a sample of registrations carry no ISWC, so a list built from ISWCs alone leaves them out.
The most-recorded songwriters
The songwriters whose registered songs have the most recordings, each with a Songlinks person ID and page.