The-Dream, the R&B singer and behind-the-scenes power player, recently boasted of a $15 million payday for writing Rihanna’s 2007 smash “Umbrella.” True? “When you have a cross-over song, it just makes more and more and more money,” says Tom DeSavia, a vice president at Notable Music, a 50-year-old music publisher founded by the late songwriter Cy Coleman. “They just make shitloads of money from every source.”
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