The 30 Best Michael Jackson Covers Ever

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Apr 242026
 

‘The Best Covers Ever’ series counts down our favorite covers of great artists.

After a long and tortured production process, the Michael Jackson biopic Michael comes out in theaters today. Is the movie any good? Does it matter? It’s enough of an excuse for us to count down covers of his biggest songs!

The legacy of Michael Jackson the person is—to put it mildly—complicated. But the legacy of Jackson’s music is unimpeachable. Dozens of songs that are all-time classics, and that get covered frequently, in every genre imaginable. Here are our favorites:

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Foo Fighters and Taylor Monson Cover Grunge Mariah Carey Songs

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Feb 102026
 
Foo Fighters and Taylor Monson Cover

Mariah Carey was the 2026 MusiCares person of the year and at the gala held to celebrate, the Foo Fighters and Taylor Momsen teamed up to cover a lesser-known corner of Mariah’s catalog. Continue reading »

Lucy Liyou Covers Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” as a Three-Part Suite

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Nov 072023
 
Lucy Liyou

San Francisco-based Korean electronic music artist Lucy Liyou has been releasing music since 2019. Though she has sampled Mariah Carey before – albeit an interview of Mariah Carey – she is not the kind of artist you’d first image to cover the pop diva. But that’s what she’s done, as part of FADER’s new FADER & Friends: Volume 1 covers-for-charity compilation. Continue reading »

The Best Cover Songs of March 2022

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Mar 312022
 
best cover songs of march 2022
Avhath – Cool / Levitating / Don’t Start Now (Dua Lipa covers)

What’s better than one Indonesian black-metal Dua Lipa cover? Three Indonesian black-metal Dua Lipa covers! Not that you’d ever know these were Dua Lipa songs unless you were listening really closely to the lyrics (and could manage to make them out).

The Band of Heathens – El Paso City (Marty Robbins cover)

During lockdown, Band of Heathens hosted a regular livestream variety show called Good Time Supper Club. One segment, “Remote Transmissions,” featured them covering a new song every episode – over 50 in all. They’re collecting some of the best on a forthcoming album of the same name: Remote Transmissions. “Making records is always about cataloging any point in time. We wanted to celebrate the unique collaborative aspect of the show,” guitarist Ed Jurdi told American Songwriter. “What better way to document the last year than with these songs?” First up is this take on a Marty Robbins country classic. Continue reading »

Rosie Thomas Enlists Sufjan Stevens, The Shins for Mariah Carey Cover

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Mar 222022
 
rosei thomas always be my baby cover

Mariah Carey;s “Always Be My Baby” is the single that tied her with Madonna and Whitney Houston for the most successful woman in US chart history in terms of #1s. To most people, though, it’s one of the more straightforward pop tracks in her mid ’90s stylistic shift towards more hip hop-influenced music. It was a massive hit but not as much as at least one other song from the same album. (Mariah was really big in the ’90s.) Continue reading »

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