SecondHandSongs

Second Hand Songs
Type of site
Online database of cover songs
Available inEnglish
FoundedBelgium
OwnerDiscoversongs VZW
Founder(s)Bastien De Zutter, Mathieu De Zutter, Denis Monsieur
URLhttps://secondhandsongs.com/
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional, only for contributing or editing data
LaunchedApril 11, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-04-11)
Current statusActive
Content licence
Academic use
Written inPHP (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]

  1. ^ "Introduction to the database | SecondHandSongs". secondhandsongs.com. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  2. ^ "Other Databases - MusicBrainz". musicbrainz.org. Retrieved 2021-07-04.
  3. ^ "Play it Again: Cover Songs in Popular Music". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-07-04.