Does it really take 15 people to write one song these days?

If you look at the writing credits for a lot of today’s popular music, you won’t see just one or two or three names listed. There might be nine, twelve, or more. Even bands like Coldplay are farming out a lot of the credits. This is a screenshot of a portion of the tracklisting from their latest album Moon Music. Note that track three is credited to 15 people as well as five producers.

Does it really take that many people to write a song these days? Rick Beato has some opinions. (Via Rick J)