Songwriting is arguably the most crucial - and potentially the most lucrative - music-making discipline of them all, and MusicRadar is celebrating this fine art with a week's worth of features, interviews and tutorials devoted to the subject.
We'll be chatting to artists who write songs for themselves and guns for hire who pen hits for others, asking them how they turn their moments of lyrical and melodic inspiration into fully-formed tunes.
Look out, too, for tips and tutorials for budding songwriters, as we show you how to improve your skills.
Finally, we've got the results of our search for the greatest songwriter of all time.
We'll keep this page updated with new stuff as it's published, so check back here regularly throughout this week because you really don't wanna miss a thing (hmm… there might just be a song in there somewhere…).
Songwriting week on MusicRadar
The 56 greatest songwriters of all time
Justin Hayward on The Moody Blues and writing in corners
How to start out as a soundtrack composer
How to write and program a melody
Gaslight Anthem's Alex Levine picks his 7 greatest songwriters
Jimmy Cliff on a life in songwriting
Ed Drewett talks writing hits for One Direction, The Wanted and more
Deconstructed: Julio Bashmore's Battle For Middle You
More songwriting features, interviews and tutorials
The evolution of the singer-songwriter
The singer-songwriter's bedroom recording toolkit
How to make it as a singer/songwriter
Squeeze's Chris Difford on songwriting with Glenn Tilbrook
SampleRadar: 235 free songwriter's samples
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