Top 50 greatest songwriters of all time based on their compositional and lyrical work. Keeping to popular music of the 20th century.

This video was originally going to be greatest rock songwriters, however it proved too much of a headache to try and determine what really constitutes a “rock” songwriter (with plenty of songwriters blurring the genre lines). So, this list includes songwriters across all popular genres, however there is probably a bit of bias towards rock music. (Rock as a genre generally has musicians who write their own music, so this isn’t too outrageous either way in my opinion).

Also, I decided to not go past the early nineties. Perhaps a bit controversial, but I’ll be honest, including some modern acts would just make this video more controversial. The musical landscape has changed a lot, and it’s always hard to compare some of the modern stuff to the classics. No disrespect, just a decision I made. No disrespect to hip-hop either, that fell outside the timeframe mostly, and comparing the songwriting process of that genre to these felt a bit difficult. Feel free to leave any comments on new artists you think should’ve been included though. I don’t usually explain this much in the description, but… idk I just decided to today for whatever reason. Anyways, thank for watching.

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