Most covered authors
Image | Artist | Covers | Covered songs | Covering artists | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | [Traditional] | 63502 | 1972 | 24088 | |
2 | John Lennon | 23208 | 270 | 10080 | |
3 | Paul McCartney | 22884 | 342 | 9847 | |
4 | Richard Rodgers | 17066 | 225 | 8748 | |
5 | Ira Gershwin | 15892 | 138 | 8455 | |
6 | George Gershwin | 15030 | 113 | 8103 | |
7 | Cole Porter | 13609 | 167 | 7638 | |
8 | Irving Berlin | 11197 | 212 | 7499 | |
9 | Johnny Mercer | 12213 | 168 | 7426 | |
10 | Oscar Hammerstein II | 11465 | 164 | 7119 | |
11 | Duke Ellington | 13048 | 171 | 6847 | |
12 | Lorenz Hart | 10992 | 86 | 6529 | |
13 | Harold Arlen | 8531 | 102 | 5820 | |
14 | Sammy Cahn | 7684 | 162 | 5779 | |
15 | Jerome Kern | 8044 | 76 | 5406 | |
16 | Gus Kahn | 6954 | 134 | 5073 | |
17 | Harry Warren | 6622 | 126 | 5012 | |
18 | Jule Styne | 5967 | 109 | 4855 | |
19 | Hoagy Carmichael | 6134 | 57 | 4846 | |
20 | Irving Mills | 6260 | 73 | 4826 | |
21 | Antônio Carlos Jobim | 10693 | 105 | 4823 | |
22 | Jimmy Van Heusen | 6625 | 112 | 4637 | |
23 | Bob Dylan | 7899 | 369 | 4461 | |
24 | Franz Gruber | 3945 | 1 | 4364 | |
25 | Joseph Mohr | 3945 | 1 | 4364 | |
26 | Victor Young | 4911 | 41 | 4286 | |
27 | Ned Washington | 4645 | 52 | 4251 | |
28 | Dorothy Fields | 5071 | 80 | 4123 | |
29 | Burt Bacharach | 6421 | 216 | 4012 | |
30 | Jimmy McHugh | 4982 | 99 | 3997 | |
31 | Hal David | 6256 | 195 | 3991 | |
32 | Paul Francis Webster | 4392 | 79 | 3942 | |
33 | Johnny Burke [US] | 4714 | 85 | 3834 | |
34 | E.Y. Harburg | 4272 | 70 | 3823 | |
35 | Frank Loesser | 3959 | 98 | 3516 | |
36 | Edward Heyman | 3609 | 28 | 3449 | |
37 | Andy Razaf | 4622 | 82 | 3449 | |
38 | Vinícius de Moraes | 6365 | 90 | 3430 | |
39 | Jerry Leiber | 4139 | 143 | 3404 | |
40 | DuBose Heyward | 3689 | 13 | 3374 | |
41 | Mack Gordon | 3715 | 73 | 3168 | |
42 | Walter Donaldson | 4056 | 96 | 3130 | |
43 | Mitchell Parish | 3215 | 61 | 3110 | |
44 | Thelonious Monk | 6116 | 65 | 3103 | |
45 | Mike Stoller | 3779 | 137 | 3068 | |
46 | Stevie Wonder | 4071 | 185 | 3049 | |
47 | Carole King | 3567 | 187 | 2963 | |
48 | J. Fred Coots | 2762 | 32 | 2961 | |
49 | Kurt Weill | 4172 | 166 | 2911 | |
50 | Sammy Fain | 2993 | 60 | 2891 | |
51 | Jay Livingston | 2972 | 60 | 2884 | |
52 | Ray Evans | 2972 | 60 | 2884 | |
53 | Billy Strayhorn | 3813 | 42 | 2879 | |
54 | Fats Waller | 4089 | 104 | 2861 | |
55 | Haven Gillespie | 2638 | 22 | 2855 | |
56 | Hugh Martin | 2651 | 23 | 2852 | |
57 | Ralph Blane | 2609 | 17 | 2837 | |
58 | Ted Koehler | 3337 | 49 | 2828 | |
59 | George David Weiss | 2687 | 69 | 2787 | |
60 | Sam Lewis | 2893 | 66 | 2783 | |
61 | [Unknown] | 2729 | 159 | 2765 | |
62 | Henry Mancini | 3487 | 104 | 2745 | |
63 | B.G. DeSylva | 3529 | 74 | 2720 | |
64 | Leo Robin | 2909 | 66 | 2715 | |
65 | Keith Richards | 3713 | 196 | 2652 | |
66 | Mick Jagger | 3702 | 199 | 2638 | |
67 | Lew Brown | 3172 | 83 | 2616 | |
68 | Ray Henderson | 3078 | 60 | 2594 | |
69 | Alan Jay Lerner | 3616 | 77 | 2583 | |
70 | Stephen Sondheim | 3958 | 190 | 2556 | |
71 | Paul Simon | 3582 | 133 | 2546 | |
72 | Joe Young [US1] | 2832 | 78 | 2512 | |
73 | Otto Harbach | 2704 | 34 | 2490 | |
74 | Al Dubin | 2865 | 72 | 2481 | |
75 | Jack Lawrence [US1] | 2416 | 39 | 2480 | |
76 | Johnny Green [US] | 2463 | 15 | 2464 | |
77 | Gerry Goffin | 2799 | 179 | 2441 | |
78 | Adolphe Charles Adam | 2206 | 1 | 2416 | |
79 | Placide Cappeau | 2206 | 1 | 2416 | |
80 | Billy Rose | 2556 | 53 | 2386 | |
81 | Robert Wells | 2175 | 12 | 2385 | |
82 | Mel Tormé | 2153 | 10 | 2370 | |
83 | Eddie DeLange | 2270 | 25 | 2354 | |
84 | Vincent Youmans | 2625 | 24 | 2350 | |
85 | Gene de Paul | 2286 | 34 | 2338 | |
86 | Alan Bergman | 3009 | 93 | 2332 | |
87 | Marilyn Bergman | 2993 | 92 | 2328 | |
88 | John Freeman Young | 2047 | 1 | 2327 | |
89 | Don Raye | 2251 | 52 | 2320 | |
90 | Michel Legrand | 2921 | 89 | 2253 | |
91 | Spencer Williams | 2907 | 52 | 2252 | |
92 | Hank Williams | 3621 | 98 | 2251 | |
93 | Carl Sigman | 2204 | 60 | 2223 | |
94 | Arthur Schwartz | 2445 | 49 | 2149 | |
95 | Norman Gimbel | 2299 | 70 | 2092 | |
96 | David Bowie | 3071 | 222 | 2090 | |
97 | Frederick Loewe | 2840 | 51 | 2065 | |
98 | Buck Ram | 1919 | 28 | 2034 | |
99 | Leslie Bricusse | 2340 | 76 | 2011 | |
100 | Joni Mitchell | 2763 | 128 | 2011 |