a/n: hi!! it’s been a minute hasn’t it? I haven’t written in a bit, especially for harry, but i’ve been sitting on this idea for literally months (like half a year lol) and i really had fun writing it!! i hope you enjoy it and please let me know what you think!! have a great rest of your day :-)

genre: fluff, soulmate!au, college!au, me living out a bunch of cliches i guess

song inspo: sims by lauv

word count: 10.6k

[ko-ee no yo-kan]; Japanese; (n.) The extraordinary sense upon first meeting someone that you will one day fall in love.

     The rubber soles of your fairly beaten converse padded along the concrete of the sidewalk quickly as you tried to match the pace of the group of your just-beyond-tipsy friends that bounded down the street. It had to be nearing 11pm by now, but the city was just beginning to come to life as laughs and yells of college students mixed with the muffled bass of the music emitting through each slightly beaten down house you passed. You couldn’t focus on anything beyond the numbness that was taking over your fingers and spreading along your exposed arms and legs. 

Global Music Rights has updated the info on Harry’s catalogue since I last looked at their website (can’t remember when that was…probably ages ago)

It really feeds my geeky need for deep songwriting info, because you can now see the breakdown of credits between him and his co-writers. I love this shit!

Because none of Harry’s co-writers are represented by GMR (apart from Ryan Tedder on 1D stuff), you can tell what percentage of the songwriting credit is Harry’s by the percentage represented by GMR.

For HS1 it breaks down as follows:

MEET ME IN THE HALLWAY: Harry 30% (6 songwriters)

SIGN OF THE TIMES: Harry 50% (6 songwriters)

CAROLINA:  Harry 27% (6 songwriters)

TWO GHOSTS: Harry 35% (5 songwriters)

SWEET CREATURE: Harry 50% (2 songwriters)

ONLY ANGEL: Harry 41% (6 songwriters)

KIWI: Harry 35% (6 songwriters)

EVER SINCE NEW YORK: Harry 40% (6 songwriters)

WOMAN: Harry 38% (6 songwriters)

FROM THE DINING TABLE: 25% (6 songwriters)

So as I’d always suspected it looks like Harry was the lead songwriter on most, if not all, of the songs on his first album (overall 35% of the songwriting credit on the album)

It’s impossible to say for sure on some songs, as we don’t know how the remainder of the credit is broken down between his co-writers. For example, on Ever Since New York Harry is credited at 40%. However it’s possible (though unlikely I think) that another writer - say, Mitch or Tyler for example - also wrote 40%, and the remaining 20% was divided between the other 4 writers.

Aside from his album, Harry has a 25% share on ANNA (4 writers, so probably an even split between them), and interestingly he is listed as only having a 20% share on LIGHTS UP (the additional songwriters aren’t listed yet, but we think Tom and Tyler, right?)

On ALFIE’S SONG he has 42% of the credit, with the remainder shared between 2 other songwriters. He co-wrote I LOVE YOU and JUST A LITTLE BIT OF YOUR HEART 50/50 with Johann Carlsson, and he has 35% on SOMEDAY which he co-wrote with Carlsson and Meghan Trainor.

GMR doesn’t represent Harry for any 1D songs, but it’s interesting to see that on RIGHT NOW, written by Ryan Tedder, Harry, Liam and Louis; Ryan has a 70% share. Presumably the other three got 10% each.