Most co-writers on a track

Kris Kross: Jump has 26 credited co-writers. Excluding medleys, do you know of any tracks that have more?

Travis Scott feat. Drake - Sicko Mode has 30+ co-writers and 6 producers.

Jermaine Dupri is credited on the record label as sole writer of "Jump"... do we count sample credits as actual co-writers?

The "Blurred Lines" case has made naming every possible nod a necessity.

In the case of Sicko Mode most of the credits come from sampling Biggie’s “gimme the loot” which in turn samples like 4 different songs.

yeah I feel for proper nominations this can't just include people who were credited due to sampling/licensing, like should be active number of songwriters who participated in the writing of the song itself.

Tracks with such a hyperinflated number of co-writers is very likely going to be attributed to samples.

One of the most ridiculous ones for me (without samples) is FourFiveSeconds which has 10 writers.

I'm primarily interested in the tracks which earn songwriting royalties for the largest number of people, so for me that does include tracks with samples. And yes, Dupri picked up the sole sleeve credit on physical copies of Jump, but Wiki has the full list.

That said, largest teams on tracks without samples is also of interest.

kanye's "hurricane" has 23 credited writers and none of that is due to samples afaik

I feel sheepish in chiming in about this, it’s not a response to this thread or the people in it and more about those annoying “look how many co-writers Beyoncé employed on this song compared to ‘Hey Jude’” perennial Facebook annoyances…

In pop the writing credits are negotiated by managers of the tracks contributors, meaning that an asst engineer or a session pianist might get writing credit— this is a financial concern with regards to “buying shares in the track” rather than a creative concern. It’s about everybody getting paid. I feel like everybody knows this! Sorry to state the obvious I just couldn’t help myself!

Expanding on that:
How many people does it take to write a hit song in 2019?

There was that thing where "Here comes the hot stepper" Ini Kamoze, had all the quoted writers of "Land of 1000 dances" added, including Fats Domino, because the writers wanted him to sing LOATD originally, but he didn't. And at that point it didn't have the "nah, na na na na" bit because Wilson Pickett added that bit himself.

"nah, na na na na" bit because Wilson Pickett added that bit himself.

That actually originated in the Cannibal & The Headhunters version, because their singer forgot the lyrics at a concert and improvised the 'nah-nahs,' which went over really well and later made it into their hit recording, which was the version Pickett covered.

The faster Pickett arrangement ended up being the basis for most subsequent covers.

Yeah, I was pretty much recalling the details from memory. The original story I heard was expressing incredulity regarding Fats Domino getting paid for "Hot stepper" even though he had absolutely nothing to do with it.