Reference song
The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand is included in the MRP Top Charted reference catalog. Billboard Year-End chart research: 1974 rank #1. 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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For music supervisors researching The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand, this page brings the track's chart context and reference information together for film, TV, advertising, trailer and branded-content research.
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
- Colgems-EMI Music Inc.
- Administrator
- EMI Music (2015 source record)
- Share, when verified
- 100%
- PRO
- Research Required
- Licensing / contact information
- EMI/Sony publishing successor route; current work-level sync authority should be confirmed
- Verification status
- Partially Verified
- Verification date
- 2026-08-31
Master Representation
- Exact recording
- The Way We Were — Barbra Streisand, 1973 single/studio recording used on the 1974 album
- Master owner / rightsholder
- Sony Music Entertainment
- Record label
- Columbia
- Distributor / administrator
- Research Required
- Master licensing / contact information
- Sony Music Entertainment / Columbia master licensing route
- ISRC, when verified
- Research Required
- Verification status
- Verified
- Verification date
- 2026-08-31
Rights note: Reference Catalog or playlist inclusion does not imply rights representation. This information is provided as a starting point for licensing research and may change over time. MFP can verify current master and publishing rights as part of the clearance process.
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Request Licensing & Clearance- Genre
- Rock
- Era
- 1970s
- Categories
- Recognizable · Era-defining · Nostalgia · Reflection · Advertising · Film/TV · Montage · Lifestyle
- Writers (existing research data)
- Marvin Hamlisch; Alan Bergman; Marilyn Bergman
- Publishers (existing research data)
- Pathe Publications (Far East) Limited; Screen Gems–EMI Music Ltd.; Colgems-EMI Music Inc.; Sony Music Publishing (Japan) Inc., Fujipacific Division (sub-publisher)
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