I see so many songs with 3-5 or more listed in the credits. I always thought sometimes one person wrote music, and another wrote lyrics. Why can it take around 5 people to write a song?
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I’m a songwriter and work in the pop industry. All that’s happening is that multiple people work on one song to get it to its final stage. Two or three people might get together to write the lyrics and melody to a song, that song might then get sent to other writers for review/input/editing, then sent to an artist who might go into the studio with a couple other people who all get points for any (even slight) stylistic/lyrical modifications. By the time a song is released, it has been heard and adjusted by so many people, and most of those people deserve some kind of credit if they’ve had any influence on the final sound. Not to mention that we have to give credit to anyone who we may have ripped off (even without noticing) in order to avoid a lawsuit.
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