The band has always credited the songwriting to "Duran Duran", i.e., the entire band, ensuring that royalties are always split evenly. It does appear that their approach is very collaborative, with each member contributing to the composition for their own instrument. Usually the band composes the music first, with lyrics written afterwards.
The majority of the lyrics, particularly in the early albums, are composed by singer Simon Le Bon, with keyboardist Nick Rhodes beginning to contribute lyrics starting with the 1997 album Medazzaland. The lyrics to a few songs have been written by bassist John Taylor or (former) guitarist Warren Cuccurullo.
Blake Shelton typically writes his own songs.
Justin Timberlake's songs are written by Jive Records.
Lady Gaga writes most if not all of her songs herself. lady gaga started out writing songs for other stars then she became lady gaga when she begain singing so i think she rights all her songs herself
Yes Mika writes all his own songs or covers other artists songs
lots of people do, during lots of different times. for instance, the star spangled banner was written during a war.
Cody writes and co-writes all of his songs himself.
Ruki writes the lyrics of the GazettE songs ;P
Blake Shelton typically writes his own songs.
Taylor actually writes her songs herself! She either wrote or co-wrote all of her songs. Sometimes Liz Rose writes her songs and Taylor co-writes.
People in their team write their songs but no one from mindless behavior writes their songs.
Chris writes his own music. (all of his songs in other words)
Yes, he writes and co-writes all his songs by himself.
Nobody, Eminem writes his own songs, he even writes his own freestyles!
Nickelback write their own songs.
Weezer's songs are the songs that Weezer writes and performs.
They all write the songs I think the one that writes the most is Mason Musso.
He only writes the Hannah Montana songs but as Miley she writes her own