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Hey taxi members! Does anyone have thoughts on pitching rewritten songs that have been previously released? For example I wrote and released a song as an artist, but would like to rewrite it to pitch to other artists. Would the fact that the song has been previously released/up on iTunes, etc. (even if relatively unsuccessfully) potentially discourage an artist or publisher from wanting to use it? Do you think an artist wouldn't want to be seen as essentially "covering" a song by anther artist if someone did an iTunes search and found more or less the same song done by some no name artist years ago?

Write new music.

I would imagine that most publishers would want fresh material that hasn't been heard before—maybe someone else can chime in on that a bit more.

You'd also need to check any publishing/administration agreement you may have signed in the process of getting your music on iTunes. This can stand in the way of exclusive deals.

I don't think it matters, unless like Anna said, you have an agreement with a publisher or other entity. If an artist is looking for songs, if they didn't write it themselves, they are basically covering someone else's songs. Of course you can't know what songs were not covered for the reasons you gave,lol, but there are many examples of songs that songwriters have released just as you did, and have been covered later by very popular artists. And of course the more common covers of songs that were originally done by popular artists.

As a tip, before I started randomly pitching the song at $5 a pop, this is just my opinion, I would post it on peer-to-peer, and/or even get a https://www.taxi.com/music-business-faq ... tique.html