Most covered authors
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 |