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summercity:
Hi everyone, just noticed that in the aria abum charts that 3 of the top ten albums (by aussies) are all albums of cover versions.

What is going on.

Human Nature, Tina Arena and David Campbell all have albums in the top 10 that are nothing but cover versions.

What a shame that we can't have 3 artists in the top 10 with original songs.

Seems that it is too hard for these artists to select songs by any of the 1000s of songwriters hoping to get a break in this country and they have all taken their career cues from someone like rod stewart who has gone the cover version route.

Newrace:
I suppose they sell records :o and the Big record companies are all about money

But I agree why do covers :o

gazzastapo:
I can never understand why an artist would do a whole CD of just covers and release a cover as a single unless there was at least one original song on the release.

From my understanding, if the artist has an original song (that they contributed to) on their album, then they get songwriting royalties that go straight to their bank account and are off limits to their record company, whereas on covers they only get performance royalties whereby the record company get to deduct any "expenses" and/or debt that the band owes them.

dunno if that's absolutely correct....but it was on some doco that I watched a while back and kinda makes sense when ya read/hear some of the stories from bands.... ???

Vtroll:
Covers or remakes.  Some suck while others sound better than the originals. But we could be opening a new can o' worms debating which version of songs are better ..... (perhaps a new thread?  ;) )

Austwiz:
most recent covers suck through a straw... :(

That said, I actually like Tina Arena's movement into the world of Jazz

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