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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In the demo and production stages, some songs get passed around to different singers, producers and writers, similar to how scripts get passed around to different screenwriters in the movie business. A song may go through many iterations, and by the time it’s deemed good enough to release, it’s a sort of Frankenstein’s monster of ideas contributed by a bunch of people.
Also, writers of a sampled song may be listed as co-writers if a significant portion of the melody or lyrics are copied.
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