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Type of site | Online database of cover songs |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | Belgium |
| Owner | Discoversongs VZW |
| Founder(s) | Bastien De Zutter, Mathieu De Zutter, Denis Monsieur |
| URL | https://secondhandsongs.com/ |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional, only for contributing or editing data |
| Launched | April 11, 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
Content licence | Academic use |
| Written in | PHP (Symfony), PostgreSQL |
SecondHandSongs (or Second Hand Songs) is a collaborative website that maintains a global database of mainly cover versions of original works. It also contains information about adaptations and samples. The website allows performers and volunteer curators to add songs and update their metadata.[1] It includes links to freely accessible recordings of the covers, and external identifiers for those works and performances in other databases.
As of 2021, it included roughly a million covers of 100,000 original works, and was cross-referenced by MusicBrainz.[2][3]
- ^ "Introduction to the database | SecondHandSongs". secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ^ "Other Databases - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
- ^ "Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-07-04.