Globex Music

You don't need the original artist's blessing to cover a song on Spotify — you need a mechanical license, which works differently than most assume.

How to correctly license, credit, and distribute a cover song that features another artist.

Whistled versions of songs still need a mechanical license. Here's why, and how to release one for as little as $1.

A working cruise ship musician's real-world approach to turning nightly cover sets into a licensed digital catalog.

A ready-to-use tracking system for monitoring cover song licensing status across multiple releases.

What actually happens to your payment when a cover song's mechanical license gets rejected before release.

A timeline breakdown of how long cover song licensing actually takes across four major distributors.

How to write artist bios and release descriptions that actually help your cover songs get found and streamed.

Renaming a cover doesn't change the licensing math — here's what actually happens if you retitle one before release.

Why a steady cover song release cadence builds more long-term streams than releasing many covers at once.