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- What’s the Best Way to Find Covers and Remixes?
Key Takeaways
- Search by title or artist on Spotify and SoundCloud for the latest covers and remixes.
- Check out TikTok for a plethora of covers and remixes from millions of up-and-comers.
- Utilize SecondHandSongs and WhoSampled to find a variety of covers, remixes, and samples using their advanced search options.
You might be surprised to learn just how many artists’ most popular songs are actually covers or remixes. These simple methods will help you find your favorite songs’ best covers and remixes before they go viral.
Search by Title
The simplest method of the bunch is to just enter your favorite song’s title into the search bar and tack “cover” or “remix” at the end. Whether it be a music streaming service, a social media site, or a video platform, you’re destined to find hundreds (if not thousands) of results once you hit the search button.
SoundCloud and Spotify are two great places to start. In particular, SoundCloud is an excellent source purely for its accessibility. For one, it’s free to use. There’s no need for a digital music distributor (unlike Spotify, which requires artists to jump through such hoops for additional fees). Plus, there are millions more uploads on SoundCloud over Spotify. In theory, this would mean more covers and remixes.
Check SecondHandSongs
If you prefer a more direct approach than merely typing in keywords into YouTube, Apple Music, TikTok, or the like, try SecondHandSongs. It’s a giant library for song covers and remixes. It compiles information about different versions of songs—including who sang them, when they were recorded, and even who wrote the original—and allows you to search the database using these parameters.
Covers, samples, remixes, even originals awaiting their very first creative reinterpretation… All have a home on SecondHandSongs. Advanced search settings even let you choose between live versions, studio versions, different music labels, and more. SecondHandSongs also has a built-in forum for you to discuss your favorites.
Check the Artist’s Page
It might sound obvious, but sometimes, finding covers and remixes is as easy as visiting the artist’s social media or music streaming service profile. It doesn’t matter where you fall in the Spotify vs. Apple Music debate; these streamers group officially sanctioned remixes alongside the artist’s regular catalog and any covers the artist has released.
Speaking of Spotify, the streaming service’s official page also holds a selection of covers recorded at Spotify Studios. Buzzworthy popular artists always stop by to do live versions of their songs and cover other artists’ work while they’re at it. (Just like the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, which you can find on YouTube!)
Search WhoSampled
Similar to SecondHandSongs, WhoSampled is a big database that makes it easy to find covers and remixes. Built around over a million tracks and curated by more than 30,000 contributors, the site lets you look up a song and see all the other songs that it samples or borrows from. It’s kind of like reverse engineering!
WhoSampled organizes its site by artist and track charts, genres, specific years or decades, and popular tags. This includes “remix,” “cover,” and even ultra-specific terms like “We did it first!” or “More than 100 covers.” You can also download the WhoSampled app to identify covers and remixes while away from the computer.
What’s the Best Way to Find Covers and Remixes?
Of all the options in this compendium, your best bet is to search by title or artist on your social media platform or streaming service of choice. Artists know that people are always hungry for a good cover or remix, so they know to upload them when the iron’s hot. TikTok is a particularly smart place to start your search, with heaps of TikTok’s using covers and remixes as backing tracks. With luck, you’ll teach your algorithm to keep the covers and remixes coming!