These one-hit wonders from the 1970s were technically covers, but they were so original, you'd never be able to tell.

Here are five hair metal songs that you probably had no idea were actually covers. Hair metal wasn't shy about a lot of things and the genre most definitely wasn't shy about borrowing a good song from ...

Justin Bieber, Madonna, Shakira and Burna Boy, and BTS performed some of their biggest hits during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Paul McGuinness of BBC Music took on a Sisyphean task this week. I mean, what kind of audacity does it take to label an essay "The 21 greatest cover versions of all time?" There's no way to do it. I ...

On Sept. 12, 1966, a new television show called The Monkees premiered on NBC, running opposite The Iron Horse on ABC and Gilligan’s Island on CBS. And while The Iron Horse remains a minuscule footnote ...

Some cover songs don’t just match the original. They bury it. A cover, at its core, is an artist’s retelling of someone else’s story, and when it’s done right, you forget there ever was a first ...

Metallica turned a local controversy into a stadium singalong during the band's latest stop on its M72 World Tour. The heavy metal band performed at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on June 28, ...

The show featured an acoustic number from Bieber, an energetic dance performance from Shakira and nods to soccer throughout, ...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup came to a close on Sunday after over a month of intense gameplay. But before Spain beat defending champion Argentina, another major spectacle was in order: the first-ever World ...

Music has a funny way of playing tricks on us. You think you know a song inside and out - its story, its artist, its soul - and then someone drops the bombshell: it was written by someone else ...

The metal icons played the Welsh capital last night (June 28) as part of the final UK run of their ongoing ‘M72’ world tour, and used their mid-set ‘Kirk and Rob Doodle’ section to nod to one of Wales ...

If you agree with the old proverb that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then cover songs serve as tributes to their original artists. Sometimes, a cover version vastly outshines its ...