In 2017, around 1.51 million acoustic guitars were sold in the United States.

Taken together, 2.6 million acoustic and electric guitars were sold in the U.S. last year, up 300,000 from 2009, according to the National Association of Music Merchants.

A little under 40,000 pianos were sold last year.

All of this was in just one year. Assuming the same sales for the last ten years we have something like 26 million new guitars being put in the hands of a mix of want to be to really good guitar players.

How many of those wanted to write a original song to make money? Who knows. There is also the group who acquired an instrument before that ten year period.

So...take that out world wide and you have hundred of thousands or perhaps millions of people who are trying to write a song.

A few of those people are really good at it and have the right connections with the right stuff at the right time.

Is it possible to make money playing/selling music? Yes, thousands of us have done that. Could you send your kids to university on that money? Some but not many could.

Can anyone who is "unknown" write a hit song on demand to be played by someone who is "unknown". No, no one knows what will become a hit based solely on the music.

You do have a pretty good chance of writing a hit song if you have written some in the past and the artist is current and in his prime. Yes, Bernie Taupin comes to mind. What was that piano players name??...lol

On the other hand I remember this guy...

Lawrence Wayne "Wild Man" Fischer (November 6, 1944 – June 16, 2011) was an American street performer known for offering erratic, acapella performances of "new kinds of songs" for a nickel or a dime each on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood.[1] Most of his life was spent homeless or institutionalized, and he later became regarded as "the godfather of outsider music"

Sorry, I lived in LA much too long...lol

Billy

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