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SecondHandSongs
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. 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. As of 2025, the site's most covered musical composition is "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" (English version: "Silent Night! Holy Night!") written by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber in 1818, which has been covered 4,229 times.
Article summary
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. 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. As of 2025, the site's most covered musical composition is "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht" (English version: "Silent Night! Holy Night!") written by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber in 1818, which has been covered 4,229 times.
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- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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