Why does every Beatles song have the songwriter credited as “Lennon-McCartney”?

Literally every song has the song has the songwriter credited as “Lennon-McCartney”…why?

Did they actually write every song together?

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JohnnyNoir · 61-69, M

It was a copyright decision made early in their career. They wrote a lot of songs together, well before focusing on their own songs