If you had a chance to do something great, would you want to share the credit with 10 other people?

Writing for the BBC, Mark Savage has turned in an impressive review of songwriting teamwork that revolves around one question: "How many people does it take to write a hit song?" The answer is a bit psychedelic.

Although songwriting teams are nothing new in music, we are much more familiar with big stars. When Adele won Song Of The Year for "Hello" we were all "in California dreaming about who we used to be" along with her as she stood at the podium with her collaborator, Greg Kurstin. She said, "Everyone, this is Greg Kurstin," knowing he was unknown to millions in the audience who had heard so much of his music. She expanded on the role he played in developing her music and performing on her Album Of The Year-winning 25, traveling to England with her so she could be with her child, and how he facilitated her ability to create, expanding her mind all the way to "Hello."

Multiplying collaboration by 10 instead of plus one has its risks and downsides, but it can work well. Savage surveys artists' experiments with large-scale teamwork at songwriting camps and even hackathons. He uses Beyoncé as an example of blending together the output from a multitude of minds into her unified creative statement, a singular vision with many roots. The challenge, whether alone or one of a dozen, is to have it all combine into a few minutes of music that are special in a way the world has never heard before.

No matter what percentage a collaborator gets from the song's royalties, sharing credit with 10 other talented musicians will always be a privilege when the results are great music.

Watch Adele's acceptance speech for Song Of The Year for "Hello"