Q & A
Each month, MusicBizAdvice.com answers your questions about the music industry.
Why it’s important for artists to write
their own songs.
Q.
You and other
music business professionals advise artists to write their own songs. Why?
A. Royalties and power. There are exceptions, but in today’s music
industry, artists who can write their own material usually have longer
careers and have more money making potential (especially in the rock and pop
genres), because they’re not dependent on someone else to provide them with
a steady flow of material.
Recording artists who are commercially successful songwriters also have more
leverage and have considerably fewer industry politics to deal with in terms
of song selection…and have considerably more creative control. This is
especially true for women in the music industry.
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