Top10Covers.com was born in 2017 out of a fascination with hearing new artists perform songs everyone knows and loves. It is also striking to recall that artists such as Justin Bieber, Jacob Collier, Ariana Grande, Charlie Puth, Shawn Mendez, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and more got their start by recording covers and posting them on YouTube™. And who can forget early online star Pomplamoose, who by 2024 has amassed 577M views of their cover tracks? Pomplamoose’s Jack Conte later formed Scary Pockets, which performs covers with many mainstream guest artists. In 2013 he even found time to co-found Patreon, a service that provides business tools for content creators to build community support and generate revenue from their works. Many cover performers use the service.
Top10Covers has also curated some great mainstream cover performances, like Weezer with their smash takes on Toto’s “Africa” and other 80s hits, Pentatonix’s version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, which has amassed 750M views, or Heart covering “Stairway To Heaven” at Led Zeppelin’s Kennedy Center Honors. Or Keane’s Tom Chaplin performing Queen classic “The Show Must Go On” with Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor at a Prince’s Trust Concert, or Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Prince, and Steve Winwood covering the Beatles “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” at the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame induction of George Harrison.
How about hearing the original cover performances that landed then-unknown singers Tommy DeCarlo and Arnel Pineda premier gigs as lead singers with iconic rock bands, respectively, Boston and Journey?
Finally, artists such as Leonid & Friends, Boyce Avenue, First to Eleven, and many others have built substantial careers performing covers, and television such as The Voice, The Masked Singer , American Idol and others continue to keep the art of interpreting songs we love in the public psyche.
Top10Covers contains a curated collection of “the world’s best cover performers.” The website’s editors are highly selective in what tracks to feature on the site in order to present a “best of” and feature tracks with site visitor appeal. The site is highly engaging for anyone who loves music. It features extensive ways to search and unique ways to discover new performances of both classic tracks and new hits.
In addition to being a great online entertainment destination for music fans, both emerging and established artists also benefit:
For Emerging Artists: For artists trying to establish themselves, a free membership provides them information and resources to help them create great covers. For those whose covers have been selected to be featured on the site, they reap further rewards through visibility in daily rankings, lifetime most-played lists, “Top10 Picks” and generation of revenue through more views on YouTube.
For Established Artists and Songwriters: The website helps promote established artists by introducing then to new fans and also generating more YouTube views from which they and the songwriters/song owners whose works they cover derive revenue.