Reference song
Bad Girls by Donna Summer is included in the MRP Top Charted reference catalog. Billboard Year-End chart research: 1979 rank #2. Use this page as a research reference for music supervision across film, television, advertising, trailers, branded content and creative pitches. Inclusion is for discovery and research and does not imply that MRP or MFP controls or represents the recording or publishing rights.
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Licensing & clearance
Rights representation
Publishing and master information below is reference research and should be independently verified for the specific use, territory, term, and budget.
Publishing Representation
- Publisher / rightsholder
- Starrin Music Publishing Corp.; Sweet Summer Night Music; Earborne Music; Rick S. Music; Rightsong Music Inc.; Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
- Administrator
- Research Required
- Share, when verified
- Research Required
- PRO
- BMI
- Licensing / contact information
- Research Required
- Verification status
- Partially Verified
- Verification date
- 2026-09-03
Master Representation
- Exact recording
- Bad Girls — Donna Summer (1979)
- Historical ℗ owner / credit
- Research Required
- Current ℗ metadata credit
- Research Required
- Master representation / control
- Research Required
- Master owner / rightsholder
- Casablanca Record and Filmworks, Inc.; PolyGram Records, Inc.; UMG Recordings Inc.
- Record label
- Casablanca Records
- Distributor / administrator
- Research Required
- Master licensing / contact information
- Research Required
- ISRC, when verified
- Research Required
- Verification status
- Partially Verified
- Verification date
- 2026-09-03
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- Dance
- Era
- 1970s
- Categories
- Dramatic · Emotional · Love · Relationships · Advertising · Party/club scene · Fashion/lifestyle · Montage
- Writers (existing research data)
- Donna Summer; Joe Esposito; Eddie Hokenson; Bruce Sudano
- Publishers (existing research data)
- Earborne Music; Rick S. Music; Rightsong Music Inc.; Sweet Summer Night Music; Warner–Tamerlane Publishing Corp.; territorial sub-publishers
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