Solo Artist
Holds writing credit on 55 of 55 tracks
She wrote all 55 of them alone. No co-writer appears anywhere across five albums and twenty-four years, which is rare at any scale.
Across all 55 tracks: how many Fiona Apple wrote alone, how many they co-wrote, and how many were written by others. The bracket marks every track they hold any writing credit on.
Share of all 55 tracks where they are personally credited, by role.
Fiona Apple's writing credit per album, in release order. Hover any bar for the album.
Where Fiona Apple sits on the scale from a pure performer (0%, sings songs written by others) to a complete author (100%, writes everything). The bright marker is their catalogue authorship score, plotted against other artists on the site.
Reference artists spread across the scale, closest by genre and era.
None of the signature songs above fall in this category.
Five studio albums in twenty-four years, the longest gaps of any artist in this catalogue relative to its size.
Work / Columbia
Epic / Clean Slate
Epic / Clean Slate
Epic / Clean Slate
Epic / Clean Slate
No albums from this decade.
Fiona Apple55 tracks
22Jon Brion, 22 tracks
AA13Amy Aileen Wood, 13 tracks
13Sebastian Steinberg, 13 tracks
13Davíd Garza, 13 tracks
12Mike Elizondo, 12 tracks
AS10Andrew Slater, 10 tracks
CD10Charley Drayton, 10 tracks
Bubble size = tracks worked on together. AA Amy Aileen Wood · AS Andrew Slater
Data Insight
She is the only writer on all 55 of her studio tracks. There is no co-writer anywhere in the catalogue, no outside songwriter, no producer taking a share. Five albums across twenty-four years and one name on every credit, which almost nothing else here can say.
Quick Facts
Creative Fingerprint
Every song, alone, across five albums and thirty years.
The Story
Fiona Apple was eighteen when Tidal came out in 1996 and it sold 2,900,000 in the United States. Four more albums have followed in the thirty years since, at gaps of six, seven and eight years, and she has written every song on all of them by herself.