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Who actually holds the copyright in a piece of music – artist, record company, composer/publisher or all three?

April 26, 2017actually artist COMPANY composer copyright holds Music piece publisher record

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Who actually holds the copyright in a piece of music – artist, record company, composer/publisher or all three?

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There is generally more than one owner of rights in any given track. The people who wrote the tune and the lyrics and/or their publishers own copyright in the song, whilst the maker of the recording (typically a record company) owns a separate copyright in the actual recording.