The 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters

Stefan ruiz ^ | 4-27-26 | New York Times

[MarlonRando]

A list of the 30 greatest American living songwriters. on the list:

Young Thug, Bad Bunny, Jay-Z and more!!!

[Vermont Lt]

Are they American?

[Kleon]

Not a bad list, but I would replace Taylor Swift with John Darnielle.

[TBP]

Agreed.

[TBP]

And as someone else pointed out, Paul Williams?

[Kleon]

Are they American?

Is Big Bunny?

[Beowulf9]

I thought this too but Paulie is British, list is for Americans.

If we are going to validate that list I would say we have to do better.

[yuleeyahoo]

Carly Simon? Elton John? Billy Joel?

[fidelis]

They are both Brits, as is McCartney. This list was about greates living American songwriters.

[pkajj]

Dean Dillon. Most of George Strait hits, along with Kenny Chesney , Toby Keith and others.

[Karliner]

No Rolling Stones, Jagger? McCartney? Arguably two big names with a ton of hits and sill alive?

[Psalm 73]

Never heard of Stephen Stills?

Pathetic.

[animal172]

That is one messed up list.

[Ge0ffrey]

A woke joke.

[Vermont Lt]

Bad Bunny? Actually, he is.

The Beatles were never, in any way, American Songwriters.

[Kleon]

Toby Keith

I have some terrible news...

[MayflowerMadam]

Right. 😢

[dfwgator]

Almost 90% of the comments on Beato’s video are people pointing out either dead people, or non-Americans.

[bankwalker]

are they living?

[bankwalker]

Brooth? really?

[Major Matt Mason]

Jay-Z is one of those names you drop when you are trying to show you are a virtue-signaling Leftist. Most of the people that claim to love him have never heard more than one song by him, and maybe not even one.