songwriters

plural of songwriter
as in composers
a person who writes popular musical compositions for the human voice he's both a singer and a songwriter

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Recent Examples of songwriters Conner Smith – The Storyteller Conner Smith grew up in Nashville and started working with some of the Music City’s top songwriters as a teenager before signing to Big Machine’s Valory imprint. Al Shipley, SPIN, 23 Dec. 2024 The royalties for music composition are received by songwriters and publishers, while those for sound recording are paid to song performers and their labels, Howard said. Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024 The early Village embodied a moment when songwriters would literally watch the nightly news or read a newspaper and then write a song about it — a song that could easily end up on an LP from a major label. David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024

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