funsongs wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 6:49 pm
Hmmm... sounds like a COVER of an Alan Jackson/Jimmy Buffett hit -
but it appears presented as the work of the artist whose name is on the channel:
Wuddyathink...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qWVk8OItTc
Some have suggested it's A.I. generated, or at least altered (auto-tune); or a counterfeit.
Just seems weird to me, from The Peanut Gallery.
The credits, or lacks thereof, may depend on the digital distributor and the timing of when it was released. I've put out some cover songs, fully-licensed with any song royalties going to the publisher (who would be paying the songwriter). But I just checked how the credits work for both my most recent cover single and an earlier cover single, and the credits are quite different.
My most recent single is a cover of CCR's "Bad Moon Rising":
https://youtu.be/-i9_H2K140s?si=6iA8b12g5w7ja0Qi
I released this through Soundrop, which has the same parent company as CD Baby. If you open the description on this one up, you'll see the songwriting credit to John Fogerty.
However, back in 2017 I put out a cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind":
https://youtu.be/QRCnb0ULGRQ?si=7_Zx9mRd40RNJWJM
That was released through CD Baby, back when they handled licensing of cover songs. (They stopped doing that a few years back, which is why I switched to Soundrop for any cover song releases -- I still use CD Baby for originals and public domain songs.) If you open the description of that one, there is no songwriter information, so CD Baby wasn't providing that information in their providing the songs to YouTube.
Of course, that release was from a long time ago, so I thought I'd check one of my original singles from late last year that was co-written. The song is "Bad Influence", written with Erin Main:
https://youtu.be/tdZCFvp4kiQ?si=JYyX-c5xVSEAc89a
Opening the description there also does not show writer (or publisher) information. Yet, when I submitted the single to CD Baby, I did have to enter all the writer/publisher information, so it appears CD Baby still isn't providing that information to YouTube in their release submissions. Yet, if you look at the same track on Spotify, the writer information is there:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7bChfxmG ... oTDsdr6VAQ
Whether Spotify gets that writer information from CD Baby, the MLC, or some other source, I haven't a clue.
So, getting back to the original question, I think the net is the distributor the guy doing the cover used simply isn't providing that information to YouTube. (The description there also doesn't say which distributor submitted the release, unlike my singles on YouTube.) I also noted that the tracks for the single in the post seemed fairly similar (though not identical) to the Jackson/Buffett version (at least as far as I listened), though the singing voice is obviously way different. I personally don't see much point in covering a song so similarly to the original artist (at least on recordings -- playing live I do sometimes stick pretty close to the original style, though I also take some major departures on some songs), even if the singer's voice is way different, but maybe that's just me.
