This article will teach you how to write an outstanding song title. While hit songs sometimes have bland titles or one-word titles, unique titles have been common to some of the most successful songs in music history.

Having an attention-grabbing title will help you overcome the noise made by thousands of songwriters vying for the attention of music industry professionals and ultimately listeners.

First comes the concept. What is this song going to be about? Often your own life will provide plenty of fuel for ideas. If not, go to things you’ve read on the internet, news, books you’ve read, conversations you’ve had, movies you’ve seen. Even the story provides song ideas, “The Wreck of The Edmond Fitzgerald” being a prime example. Pick an interesting aspect of any of those things and write about it.

If you choose a movie, for example, you probably don’t want to write about the movie itself, this is a song, not a movie review. Pick a small slice of it, perhaps the strange relationship between the rock star hero and his ex-girlfriend, and write only about that. No one needs to know that your idea came from a movie.

Note that movie titles are sometimes mentioned in songs. “Just like they did in Key Largo” is a line in a hit song, Key Largo being a movie.

Idea in mind, start brainstorming every word you can think of that relates to it. If the rock star was a control freak, you’ll generate words like “domineering” and “harasser.” Write them down. Now it’s time to play with the best. Add a word or two to your listed words and employ various techniques.

Try alliteration: Ssecret Sspeak. Silent stalker? Soul stalker? Hey random thought, Soul Stealer? That could work…
Try the rhythm: RockAhem stalkAhem

Try the antonyms: normally nice guys and stalking are mutually exclusive terms, but in the movie the guy was nice when he wasn’t stalking. The Nicest Stalker… or How about Nice Stalker? That catches your eye, plus, it’s a twist on the common phrase “Nightstalker.”

Adding a time, date, phone number, or place is sure to make your title stand out. The nine o’clock stalker. Good stalker from Atlanta. 1-800 Stalker are all memorable.

There are other techniques you can use, but just the above should give you enough fuel to write song titles to burn through the next few years of songwriting madness.