How Cover Songs Can Take Your Music Career to the Next Level

If you’re a performer and songwriter, of course you want to record and perform your own songs…

But you might be missing out on a very effective and easy way to take your music career to the next level: Cover songs!

Here’s why cover songs are great if you want to:

1. Be More Liked

In psychology, there’s a phenomenon called the mere-exposure effect. What it means is simply this:

People prefer what they’re familiar with over what they don’t know.

So when you cover a popular song, people will like you and your performance more – just because they’re already familiar with the song.

It doesn’t mean your own songs aren’t as good.

It just means that with a cover, the hard work of popularizing the song is already done.

Why not use this to your advantage?

How do new fans find out about your music?

Maybe you’re playing shows, sending out press releases or spending money on radio promotion…

But rather than pushing your music in front of an audience, what if you could make them come to you?

Well, that’s exactly what the right cover song will do for you:

By pulling in lots of new listeners with your cover, you can easily close the gap between you and your potential new fans.

Now, you just have to pick the right song to pull in your ideal fans!

The best way to be memorable is to be different.

But different compared to what?

When you cover a song, the popular version of it acts as a reference – and gives you that opportunity to be different.

So by performing a cover song you’ll actually be more memorable than with your own original tune.

Plus, it’s relatively easy:

Pick a song and switch up the genre or instrumentation, create a mashup or choose a song that’s usually …read more