You can acquire licenses for the US and associated territories from Affordable Song Licensing or from the Harry Fox Agency (HFA) for distribution in these territories on all services. It cannot use any samples from the original recording, and cannot alter the melody, lyrics or original composition. This means that you can distribute your covers to these services worldwide. However Spotify, Deezer, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Saavn, Nuuday, Anghami, Tidal, and KKBox pay for their own licenses for cover songs. You will need to exclude these territories to distribute your release to the rest of the world unless you have acquired a mechanical license to release a cover of the song(s) you have recorded. ![]() ![]() For releasing cover songs online you don’t need a license and can just upload it and release it.
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