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Image Artist Covers Covered songs Covering artists
1 [Traditional] 74511 2315 27804
2 John Lennon 24904 282 11002
3 Paul McCartney 24447 347 10684
4 Richard Rodgers 18098 226 9359
5 Ira Gershwin 16633 144 8959
6 George Gershwin 15786 117 8609
7 Cole Porter 14501 173 8133
8 Duke Ellington 13739 186 7256
9 Johnny Mercer 12841 175 7906
10 Oscar Hammerstein II 12226 168 7602
11 Irving Berlin 11711 215 7897
12 Lorenz Hart 11545 86 6905
13 Antônio Carlos Jobim 11493 108 5296
14 Ástor Piazzolla 9170 205 2853
15 Bob Dylan 9042 389 5099
16 Harold Arlen 8941 105 6186
17 Jerome Kern 8402 78 5679
18 Sammy Cahn 8094 171 6127
19 Gus Kahn 7302 137 5366
20 Harry Warren 7019 133 5340
21 Vinícius de Moraes 6992 99 3827
22 Jimmy Van Heusen 6947 117 4893
23 Burt Bacharach 6787 222 4286
24 Hal David 6620 201 4271
25 Irving Mills 6568 76 5085
26 Hoagy Carmichael 6452 58 5093
27 Thelonious Monk 6326 65 3272
28 Jule Styne 6297 117 5114
29 Dorothy Fields 5437 89 4383
30 Jimmy McHugh 5161 101 4162
31 Victor Young 5127 43 4499
32 Johnny Burke [US] 4932 86 4041
33 Ned Washington 4878 56 4496
34 Andy Razaf 4747 82 3557
35 Paul Francis Webster 4661 86 4168
36 E.Y. Harburg 4535 71 4094
37 Stephen Sondheim 4528 194 2940
38 Jerry Leiber 4393 147 3653
39 Kurt Weill 4356 172 3087
40 Stevie Wonder 4330 188 3269
41 Walter Donaldson 4212 99 3264
42 Frank Loesser 4203 102 3740
43 Franz Gruber 4170 1 4612
44 Joseph Mohr 4170 1 4612
45 Fats Waller 4154 104 2919
46 Keith Richards 4071 208 2917
47 Mick Jagger 4057 207 2903
48 Billy Strayhorn 4009 44 3031
49 Mike Stoller 3986 140 3269
50 Mack Gordon 3978 76 3400
51 Alan Jay Lerner 3948 80 2799
52 Paul Simon 3895 136 2810
53 Hank Williams 3800 98 2404
54 Carole King 3783 192 3158
55 Edward Heyman 3773 31 3620
56 Henry Mancini 3716 115 2928
57 B.G. DeSylva 3689 76 2839
58 David Bowie 3659 246 2445
59 DuBose Heyward 3538 16 3398
60 Ted Koehler 3453 49 2948
61 Mitchell Parish 3395 62 3277
62 Max Martin [SE] 3335 210 1390
63 Alan Bergman 3299 97 2567
64 Lew Brown 3291 85 2721
65 Marilyn Bergman 3282 96 2559
66 Chico Buarque 3266 140 1628
67 Elton John 3235 176 2098
68 Ray Henderson 3209 62 2710
69 Sammy Fain 3183 66 3088
70 Frederick Loewe 3138 54 2248
71 Michel Legrand 3131 95 2438
72 Jay Livingston 3118 60 3045
73 Ray Evans 3118 60 3045
74 Joni Mitchell 3100 137 2258
75 Benny Andersson [SE1] 3051 130 1633
76 Leo Robin 3040 69 2835
77 Björn Ulvaeus 3028 130 1618
78 Barry Gibb 3024 182 2199
79 Sam Lewis 3023 67 2931
80 Al Dubin 2997 75 2600
81 Gerry Goffin 2988 184 2617
82 Spencer Williams 2970 53 2313
83 Joe Young [US1] 2960 81 2645
84 Andrew Lloyd Webber 2934 135 1632
85 George David Weiss 2922 77 3043
86 J. Fred Coots 2913 32 3138
87 Sting 2867 113 2049
88 George Harrison 2851 119 2212
89 Otto Harbach 2827 34 2611
90 Clarence Williams [US1] 2823 95 1976
91 Hugh Martin 2809 23 3042
92 Haven Gillespie 2782 22 3018
93 Ralph Blane 2766 17 3027
94 Vincent Youmans 2743 24 2467
95 Dorothy Heyward 2715 7 2991
96 Robin Gibb 2702 144 2020
97 Billy Rose 2693 55 2517
98 Bertolt Brecht 2688 153 1463
99 Bernie Taupin 2653 146 1738
100 Scott Joplin 2653 89 830