Pop Music today is just another genre to most, but it has a lasting effect, and many don’t know the people behind writing your favorite song isn’t even the artist singing them. In the article “Hit Charade: Meet the Norwegians and other unknowns who actually created songs that top the charts.” By Nathaniel Rich, he discusses the people that most have no clue about but have changed the music industry. Today in the music industry many artists have a ghost writer. A writer hidden behind closed doors and you’ll never know until you look on the back of the performing artist CD or when they win an award and see names like Nathaniel Rich, Ester Dean and Martin Stargate in small letters. To most they believe these names aren’t important until your told without these people many songs wouldn’t be on the radio. Right now, if you turned on the radio, more than likely you would here …show more content…
Many labels will replace the songwriter name with the performers name, due to jealousy and the competitive nature of labels in keeping the performing artist on top, many writers go unnoticed. The reason many artists don’t write there on music is because, there’s too much at stake for them and being a celebrity is already a lot of time and energy. This isn’t shocking though, because many different industries run their business like this. The music industry has been running this way for years. The reason this structure has been consisted since the Backstreet Boys and even before then is because the music is made to fill arenas not headphones. Thus, keeping the artist on top, which then keeps the focus on the artist which is the most important to label and keeping the writers hidden won’t damage the brand of