# Publisher Routing Predicts Who Profits From a Worship Song ## Claim Who administers a worship song's publishing predicts who profits from it, and that routing is checkable independently of any songwriter's account of how the song came to be. <!-- atomicity: 1 idea ✓ --> ## Scope & conditions - Reported figure from this source: three publishers, two of them owned by Universal and Sony, route roughly 80% of the current CCLI top 100's royalties. Single-source and worth independent verification. - The claim is about where money goes, not about a song's merit or its congregational reception. - Checkable through CCLI and publisher registration data rather than requiring insider testimony, which is what makes it useful. - Weakens for independently published or public-domain material, where routing is diffuse. ## Evidence From the Jonathan Allen Wright CCM-industry series episode on worship songwriting camps: publishing administration is presented as the concentrated layer beneath a diffuse-looking songwriter credit list. ## Links - [[Writing-Room Credit Is Negotiated Not a Record of Who Wrote What]] — the companion — the credit list looks collaborative while the routing beneath it is concentrated - [[Worship Song Popularity Can Measure Ownership Rather Than Reception]] — the demand-side version of the same ownership question - [[3. Resources/MOCs/Christian Music Industry Economics MOC]] — the industry thread this claim sits in.