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To your last point, it's not quite like that. What happens is the Andre Lindalls of the world re cord demos. The artists listen To the demos and more or less "bid" on them. Top tier artists get top tier songs. Or rather they get songs they think will be hits. So there is a hierarchy among songwriters even for pop stars, it's definitely not a vast ZMP pool.