
John Legend, who has dominated the airwaves this year with "All of Me," said winning the song-of-the-year Grammy is one of his top goals. The largest group of writers to win the coveted Grammy for song of the year - a songwriter's award - is four, including Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)." Other winners with four songwriters include songs by U2, Coldplay, the Dixie Chicks and fun., where band members count for all or most of the writers. Pitbull and Kesha's "Timber" lists eight songwriters, but technically the total would be 11 because it borrows from Lee Oskar's "San Francisco Bay." Other times, sampling older songs adds to the lengthy list of credited songwriters. "And then you got the guy that's smoking the blunt that's paying no attention and then he's like, 'Hey, say, "Chow down mother, chow down mother." Now that "Chow down mother stoner mother" is now part of the songwriting process, even if he only brought in one word." In that room, I don't want to be a part of," she added. "You have a programmer that's in (the studio) and they're like, 'OK, give me a beat Simon.' Simon gives a beat, well now he is a part of the co-write,'" said Linda Perry, who wrote Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" and hits for Pink. The publishing percentage for each person listed on the song varies, though.

Some of today's hits with a list of songwriters that scroll on and on include others who don't physically write lyrics: Writing credit can also be earned by producers who design the beats, artists who sing the song and add their own flavor, engineers who mix the track and others who work specifically on the melody. but for us, it's not real to what Imagine Dragons is." "I've heard about artists who have a song written for them and they embrace it. "I don't think that there'll probably ever be a time, to be honest with you, that we would sit down with like six songwriters and be like, 'Write an Imagine Dragons song.' It just wouldn't feel right for us," said bandleader Dan Reynolds, who will be honored Thursday night at the Songwriters Hall of Fame ceremony in New York.
