Most covered authors
Image | Artist | Covers | Covered songs | Covering artists | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | [Traditional] | 63529 | 1974 | 24104 | |
2 | John Lennon | 23209 | 270 | 10081 | |
3 | Paul McCartney | 22885 | 342 | 9848 | |
4 | Richard Rodgers | 17073 | 225 | 8753 | |
5 | Ira Gershwin | 15899 | 138 | 8460 | |
6 | George Gershwin | 15037 | 113 | 8108 | |
7 | Cole Porter | 13616 | 167 | 7647 | |
8 | Duke Ellington | 13054 | 171 | 6851 | |
9 | Johnny Mercer | 12216 | 168 | 7430 | |
10 | Oscar Hammerstein II | 11471 | 164 | 7123 | |
11 | Irving Berlin | 11200 | 212 | 7503 | |
12 | Lorenz Hart | 10996 | 86 | 6532 | |
13 | Antônio Carlos Jobim | 10695 | 105 | 4824 | |
14 | Harold Arlen | 8533 | 102 | 5822 | |
15 | Jerome Kern | 8045 | 76 | 5406 | |
16 | Bob Dylan | 7914 | 369 | 4470 | |
17 | Sammy Cahn | 7693 | 162 | 5787 | |
18 | Gus Kahn | 6956 | 134 | 5076 | |
19 | Jimmy Van Heusen | 6633 | 112 | 4640 | |
20 | Harry Warren | 6629 | 126 | 5020 | |
21 | Burt Bacharach | 6421 | 216 | 4012 | |
22 | Vinícius de Moraes | 6366 | 90 | 3431 | |
23 | Irving Mills | 6263 | 73 | 4827 | |
24 | Hal David | 6256 | 195 | 3991 | |
25 | Hoagy Carmichael | 6137 | 57 | 4847 | |
26 | Thelonious Monk | 6119 | 65 | 3106 | |
27 | Jule Styne | 5969 | 109 | 4859 | |
28 | Dorothy Fields | 5071 | 80 | 4124 | |
29 | Jimmy McHugh | 4981 | 99 | 3998 | |
30 | Victor Young | 4914 | 41 | 4289 | |
31 | Johnny Burke [US] | 4719 | 85 | 3838 | |
32 | Ned Washington | 4650 | 52 | 4257 | |
33 | Andy Razaf | 4623 | 82 | 3450 | |
34 | Paul Francis Webster | 4393 | 79 | 3943 | |
35 | E.Y. Harburg | 4274 | 70 | 3825 | |
36 | Kurt Weill | 4175 | 166 | 2913 | |
37 | Jerry Leiber | 4140 | 143 | 3405 | |
38 | Fats Waller | 4090 | 104 | 2862 | |
39 | Stevie Wonder | 4074 | 185 | 3051 | |
40 | Walter Donaldson | 4061 | 96 | 3134 | |
41 | Frank Loesser | 3961 | 98 | 3517 | |
42 | Stephen Sondheim | 3960 | 190 | 2557 | |
43 | Franz Gruber | 3946 | 1 | 4365 | |
44 | Joseph Mohr | 3946 | 1 | 4365 | |
45 | Billy Strayhorn | 3818 | 42 | 2884 | |
46 | Mike Stoller | 3779 | 137 | 3068 | |
47 | Mack Gordon | 3723 | 73 | 3179 | |
48 | Keith Richards | 3717 | 196 | 2657 | |
49 | Mick Jagger | 3706 | 199 | 2643 | |
50 | DuBose Heyward | 3691 | 13 | 3375 | |
51 | Hank Williams | 3622 | 98 | 2254 | |
52 | Alan Jay Lerner | 3618 | 77 | 2584 | |
53 | Edward Heyman | 3610 | 28 | 3450 | |
54 | Paul Simon | 3583 | 133 | 2547 | |
55 | Carole King | 3567 | 187 | 2963 | |
56 | B.G. DeSylva | 3529 | 74 | 2720 | |
57 | Henry Mancini | 3488 | 104 | 2746 | |
58 | Ted Koehler | 3337 | 49 | 2828 | |
59 | Mitchell Parish | 3216 | 61 | 3111 | |
60 | Lew Brown | 3173 | 83 | 2618 | |
61 | David Bowie | 3083 | 222 | 2100 | |
62 | Ray Henderson | 3081 | 60 | 2598 | |
63 | Max Martin [SE] | 3032 | 190 | 1238 | |
64 | Alan Bergman | 3010 | 93 | 2332 | |
65 | Sammy Fain | 2995 | 60 | 2894 | |
66 | Marilyn Bergman | 2994 | 92 | 2328 | |
67 | Jay Livingston | 2975 | 60 | 2887 | |
68 | Ray Evans | 2975 | 60 | 2887 | |
69 | Elton John | 2929 | 170 | 1886 | |
70 | Michel Legrand | 2921 | 89 | 2253 | |
71 | Spencer Williams | 2910 | 52 | 2255 | |
72 | Leo Robin | 2909 | 66 | 2715 | |
73 | Sam Lewis | 2895 | 66 | 2784 | |
74 | Chico Buarque | 2884 | 129 | 1449 | |
75 | Al Dubin | 2865 | 72 | 2481 | |
76 | Frederick Loewe | 2840 | 51 | 2065 | |
77 | Joe Young [US1] | 2833 | 78 | 2513 | |
78 | Benny Andersson | 2816 | 128 | 1502 | |
79 | Gerry Goffin | 2799 | 179 | 2441 | |
80 | Björn Ulvaeus | 2790 | 127 | 1485 | |
81 | Barry Gibb | 2786 | 182 | 2000 | |
82 | Clarence Williams [US1] | 2777 | 95 | 1932 | |
83 | Joni Mitchell | 2764 | 128 | 2011 | |
84 | J. Fred Coots | 2762 | 32 | 2961 | |
85 | [Unknown] | 2729 | 159 | 2765 | |
86 | Otto Harbach | 2707 | 34 | 2493 | |
87 | George David Weiss | 2689 | 69 | 2789 | |
88 | Hugh Martin | 2651 | 23 | 2852 | |
89 | Haven Gillespie | 2639 | 22 | 2856 | |
90 | Vincent Youmans | 2626 | 24 | 2351 | |
91 | Ralph Blane | 2609 | 17 | 2837 | |
92 | Scott Joplin | 2608 | 89 | 793 | |
93 | Jelly Roll Morton | 2590 | 89 | 1167 | |
94 | Bertolt Brecht | 2590 | 152 | 1375 | |
95 | George Harrison | 2560 | 108 | 1996 | |
96 | Billy Rose | 2557 | 53 | 2386 | |
97 | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 2538 | 128 | 1412 | |
98 | Robin Gibb | 2489 | 143 | 1836 | |
99 | Johnny Green [US] | 2464 | 15 | 2467 | |
100 | Arthur Schwartz | 2449 | 49 | 2154 |