kinda shot Elvis in the foot cos he was only getting poor songwriters that would give him a cut of the songwriting!
He had plenty of hits with the system. Doc Pomus,Otis Blackwell not too shabby.
But missed out on many, many, many more.
Really? Like which ones? He covered Dylan probably the Beatles. During his heyday anything he did went gold, when his time passed then his time passed. 1/2 of 300,000 is more than 100% of 10 dollars. Very few turned down the chance to have Elvis record one of their songs.