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These Are the 50 Most Covered Songs of All Time
By
Angela Underwood, Stacker News
On 1/17/21 at 11:00 AM EST
If you agree with the old proverb that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then cover songs serve as tributes to their original artists. Sometimes, a cover version vastly outshined its original. Such is the case with "Summertime," originally written for the 1935 George Gershwin opera
Porgy and Bess, which Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong put a jazz spin on in 1957 to make it an international hit.
To learn more about the most covered songs in musical history, Stacker mined data from WhoSampled.com, whose goal is to build the most comprehensive database for music. The site features more than 653,000 songs and more than 215,000 artists as of February 26, 2020. Aside from Beatles tunes, Christmas music accounts for a number of the most covered songs, including Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" in 1942: the second-most covered holiday song with more than 50 million copies sold internationally to date.

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