> The importance of the songwriter over the artist has been growing, all of this was mentioned in the article. That has always been the case in the USA. The b

> The importance of the songwriter over the artist has been growing, all of this was mentioned in the article. That has always been the case in the USA. The band's songwriter buys a mansion, and the rest rent apartments. The Go-gos (writer Jane Wiedlin), Twisted Sister (writer Dee Snyder) and Smashing Pumpkins (writer Billy Corrigan) broke up over that, and prolly a majority of other bands. Songwriter Diane Warren is prolly a billionaire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Diane_Warren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Diane... What's interesting is that above even that is owning publishing rights, pioneered by Frank Sinatra. He produced his own albums, then after he mastered he shopped for a distributor. Almost no US musicians bothered to retain publishing rights, aside from Steve Vai, Frank Zappa and a few other hard-asses. I tell Youtubers to "own your publishing." Source: in the biz.