Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance’ Has 104 Songwriters – Don’t Tell Diane Warren
thewrap.comwould need 24 songwriters, facing stinging backlash from the Beyhive for what was seen by many as a racially insensitive inquiry.
Warren, a songwriting legend who has worked with Beyonce before, surely knew better.This isn't meant as shade, I'm just curiousBut the rest of us may not.
The prevalence of sampling in modern pop music covers some of it. Even if a tiny snippet of a song is used, each source-material songwriter gets their name along for the ride, plus due royalties.
As Beyonce has continued to rise in stature, so has her available sampling pool, which has included everything from Donna Summer to Led Zeppelin (yes, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have songwriting credits on “Lemonade,” and they probably weren’t cheap).But a sampling boom doesn’t tell the whole story. “Renaissance” has 104 credited songwriters (including Beyonce herself), for a total of 170 songwriting credits (since several songwriters work on multiple tracks).
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