Originally Posted by DocHolladay
The labels have their own stable of writers and will rarely go outside of that circle unless you get really lucky or write something that is so obviously a cash cow that they can't live without it.


I don't mean to specifically pick something out of your post just to disagree, but the truth is, songs come from all over town and you never know which ones are gonna get cut. If the labels just used songs that were partially owned by their company's publishing company, then they would be cheating themselves out of some good material. In general for a record, the producers in town listen to thousands of songs. They don't all come from the artists labels.