Topic summary

Songwriting

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Songwriter.

A songwriting partnership or songwriting duo is a prolific collaboration which consists of two songwriters who usually share 50% of the royalties and credit for the songs they create. Songwriting partnerships can be between a composer and a lyricist (Andrew Lloyd Webber with Tim Rice, or Elton John with Bernie Taupin), a performer and a producer (Madonna with Patrick Leonard or Mariah Carey with Walter Afanasieff), or between bandmates (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones or Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA).