We've been covering BeatBread a lot here in FastTrack recently – primarily for its business paying advances to artists but now it's making a logical next step – expanding to songwriters. The company will now offer advances of up to $3m to writers. That's against their publishing rights, covering both existing catalogues and as-yet-unreleased songs. Obviously most of BeatBread's songwriter advances will be smaller than that with the company saying it can go as low as $1k for artists and songwriters alike (while also connecting them into its investor network for further fundraising). The money will be repaid from their streaming and airplay revenues over time, with the musicians retaining ownership of their rights. If you haven't investigated BeatBread yet, we suggest you do so here.