Most covered authors
Image | Artist | Covers | Covered songs | Covering artists | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
[Traditional] | 56776 | 1743 | 21231 |
2 | John Lennon | 21882 | 269 | 9396 | |
3 | Paul McCartney | 21615 | 341 | 9188 | |
4 | Richard Rodgers | 15044 | 212 | 7789 | |
5 | Ira Gershwin | 14151 | 131 | 7646 | |
6 | George Gershwin | 13353 | 105 | 7317 | |
7 | Cole Porter | 12030 | 155 | 6826 | |
8 | Duke Ellington | 11948 | 149 | 6266 | |
9 | Johnny Mercer | 10931 | 139 | 6637 | |
10 | Oscar Hammerstein II | 10043 | 155 | 6309 | |
11 | Antônio Carlos Jobim | 10002 | 105 | 4396 | |
12 | Irving Berlin | 9745 | 197 | 6608 | |
13 | Lorenz Hart | 9547 | 77 | 5760 | |
14 | Harold Arlen | 7724 | 92 | 5266 | |
15 | Bob Dylan | 7238 | 357 | 4113 | |
16 | Jerome Kern | 6996 | 72 | 4778 | |
17 | Sammy Cahn | 6882 | 148 | 5133 | |
18 | Jimmy Van Heusen | 5990 | 102 | 4214 | |
19 | Vinícius de Moraes | 5898 | 85 | 3113 | |
20 | Burt Bacharach | 5892 | 206 | 3635 | |
21 | Gus Kahn | 5824 | 111 | 4389 | |
22 | Hal David | 5746 | 182 | 3629 | |
23 | Irving Mills | 5744 | 71 | 4413 | |
24 | Thelonious Monk | 5735 | 62 | 2886 | |
25 | Harry Warren | 5710 | 114 | 4391 | |
26 | Hoagy Carmichael | 5485 | 53 | 4374 | |
27 | Jule Styne | 5269 | 90 | 4253 | |
28 | Dorothy Fields | 4402 | 72 | 3590 | |
29 | Victor Young | 4351 | 37 | 3855 | |
30 | Jimmy McHugh | 4270 | 88 | 3445 | |
31 | Andy Razaf | 4248 | 78 | 3155 | |
32 | Johnny Burke [US] | 4175 | 76 | 3411 | |
33 | Ned Washington | 4104 | 49 | 3761 | |
34 | Paul Francis Webster | 3956 | 70 | 3528 | |
35 | Kurt Weill | 3875 | 166 | 2673 | |
36 | E.Y. Harburg | 3857 | 60 | 3456 | |
37 | Jerry Leiber | 3840 | 140 | 3115 | |
38 | Stevie Wonder | 3807 | 181 | 2825 | |
39 | Fats Waller | 3776 | 98 | 2644 | |
40 | Franz Gruber | 3620 | 1 | 3996 | |
41 | Joseph Mohr | 3620 | 1 | 3996 | |
42 | Frank Loesser | 3523 | 91 | 3132 | |
43 | Mike Stoller | 3510 | 134 | 2816 | |
44 | Billy Strayhorn | 3490 | 31 | 2639 | |
45 | Keith Richards | 3475 | 188 | 2472 | |
46 | Mick Jagger | 3463 | 187 | 2458 | |
47 | Stephen Sondheim | 3446 | 173 | 2250 | |
48 | Walter Donaldson | 3427 | 79 | 2738 | |
49 | Hank Williams | 3368 | 97 | 2065 | |
50 | Carole King | 3342 | 179 | 2750 | |
51 | Paul Simon | 3300 | 133 | 2323 | |
52 | Edward Heyman | 3271 | 26 | 3107 | |
53 | Mack Gordon | 3206 | 70 | 2771 | |
54 | Henry Mancini | 3194 | 97 | 2463 | |
55 | DuBose Heyward | 3183 | 12 | 3009 | |
56 | Alan Jay Lerner | 3102 | 65 | 2276 | |
57 | David Bowie | 2896 | 220 | 1954 | |
58 | B.G. DeSylva | 2839 | 66 | 2253 | |
59 | Ted Koehler | 2834 | 39 | 2422 | |
60 | Mitchell Parish | 2795 | 53 | 2731 | |
61 | ![]() |
[Unknown] | 2747 | 160 | 2726 |
62 | Alan Bergman | 2719 | 88 | 2090 | |
63 | Lew Brown | 2709 | 76 | 2279 | |
64 | Marilyn Bergman | 2708 | 87 | 2089 | |
65 | Elton John | 2675 | 166 | 1695 | |
66 | Ray Evans | 2671 | 50 | 2594 | |
67 | Jay Livingston | 2671 | 50 | 2594 | |
68 | Michel Legrand | 2652 | 79 | 2034 | |
69 | Spencer Williams | 2644 | 46 | 2032 | |
70 | Gerry Goffin | 2633 | 174 | 2267 | |
71 | Benny Andersson | 2627 | 124 | 1346 | |
72 | Sammy Fain | 2607 | 51 | 2543 | |
73 | Björn Ulvaeus | 2603 | 122 | 1330 | |
74 | Ray Henderson | 2601 | 54 | 2244 | |
75 | Max Martin [SE] | 2598 | 176 | 1067 | |
76 | Barry Gibb | 2564 | 176 | 1818 | |
77 | Scott Joplin | 2537 | 89 | 749 | |
78 | Sam Lewis | 2522 | 59 | 2457 | |
79 | Chico Buarque | 2512 | 111 | 1283 | |
80 | J. Fred Coots | 2499 | 26 | 2670 | |
81 | Clarence Williams [US1] | 2479 | 86 | 1717 | |
82 | Bertolt Brecht | 2472 | 152 | 1280 | |
83 | Leo Robin | 2440 | 54 | 2309 | |
84 | Jelly Roll Morton | 2414 | 88 | 1059 | |
85 | George David Weiss | 2404 | 65 | 2502 | |
86 | Haven Gillespie | 2397 | 20 | 2593 | |
87 | Frederick Loewe | 2386 | 40 | 1800 | |
88 | Joni Mitchell | 2385 | 125 | 1739 | |
89 | George Harrison | 2374 | 107 | 1857 | |
90 | Al Dubin | 2373 | 65 | 2085 | |
91 | Hugh Martin | 2359 | 13 | 2507 | |
92 | Joe Young [US1] | 2354 | 68 | 2138 | |
93 | Ralph Blane | 2344 | 15 | 2503 | |
94 | Robin Gibb | 2298 | 138 | 1670 | |
95 | Vincent Youmans | 2294 | 22 | 2080 | |
96 | Charlie Parker | 2281 | 48 | 1604 | |
97 | Otto Harbach | 2277 | 34 | 2180 | |
98 | Johnny Green | 2252 | 12 | 2240 | |
99 | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 2216 | 113 | 1233 | |
100 | Billy Rose | 2212 | 47 | 2108 |