No song composed by a just one person has reached the top of the Billboard chart in almost 3 years. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9473248/hit-songs-written-by-one-songwriter-fleetwood-mac-dreams-stevie-nicks/">https://www.billboard.com/articles/...

The reasons are historical, not artistic. Songwriters joined together to form ASCAP & helped create a legal system that rewards composers. But musicians, sound engineers, producers, etc. never did this. So they now need to share in songwriter credits to get performance royalties.

It& #39;s mystifying that a musician playing on a track gets no money from radio airplay, but those are the rules—so I can& #39;t blame stakeholders from demanding that their names get included on songwriter credits. That& #39;s how they get paid. With different rules, this wouldn& #39;t happen.