There’s an art to covering other people’s songs. Sometimes the reimagined version takes on a life of its own and occasionally it outsells or even eclipses the original. This is not a list making subjective calls on the artistic merits of cover versions versus the originals. Instead, here are 10 times the cover song became more popular than the original – at least in the modern streaming era. Stats on Spotify as of November 2023 were used for comparison.
