Haven't been able to find anything so far - I'm beginning to think that a long evening poring over the Guiness book of Hit Singles is ahead of me.
― Winterland, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)
So, RFI number two: can anyone recommend a good site with the songwriting credits to the UK's number one singles?
― Winterland, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)
Click on title, get the writer details.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)
― Winterland, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)
― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)
― js (honestengine), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)
Now, why did that person type the word songwriter, in italics?
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 2 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)
― Yoshinorimike (Yoshinorimike), Friday, 2 December 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)
https://pudding.cool/2023/07/songwriters/
"In 2022, hit songs had 6 songwriters on average: 5 men and 1 woman. But the average conceals a remarkable fact about the 42 songs that cracked the Top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100. While half of the songs had a songwriting team of all men, only one had a songwriting team of all women.
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Only 118 of the 3,077 (3.8%) top 5 hits (from 1958 to 2022, Billboard Hot 100) were written exclusively by women. But who performed those 118 songs? In almost all cases, women. Only 13 of those 118 were performed exclusively by men."
― fpsa, Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:02 (two years ago)