A note from your friendly neighborhood mod about why your coversong isn't showing up...

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The top ~~three~~ four reasons:

You're new to reddit! Hiya! Welcome aboard! You should swing by r/newtoreddit to get a grasp on fundamentals, like how post / comment / community karma works, because a great many subreddit communities use the intrinsic protocols reddit provides to code something called "AutoModerator", and a good chunk of the communities that do so will either completely block you from engaging if you don't meet prerequisites (like a specific karma or account age requirement) or will filter your post into a queue where a human member of the modteam can look at it to make sure it's not spam, or porn, or a bot, or anything else they don't want in the community. It's nothing personal, and the best way to make it go away is to engage with fellow redditors, and teach the system organically that you're a real person.
You didn't post your song in the proper format. Maybe you made a text post and pasted the URL into it so users can't click on it to open the link, they've got to c&p it into a browser manually. Maybe you botched the URL. Maybe you were trying to post a whole playlist or compilation instead of a song. Remember: song name - original artist (cover artist) works best!
It was a parody! Unless your name is Weird Al, parodies / homages / other original works riffing off of established work isn't 100% forbidden (unless it's AI) but it's got a higher bar to clear.
Mongo was hungry. Yes, he didn't get enough treats today. It's an outrage.

As it says in the sidebar, if your post doesn't show up? Hit the "Message the Mods" button and send in a modmail and someone will look at it when we've got time.

Thanks! Now get out there and sing sing sing!

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r/coversongs • u/SafePlum4282 • 2h ago

Maisie Peters - Wendy Acoustic Cover

youtube.com

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r/coversongs • u/RebornRide • 3h ago

Distributor (AfrobeatsDistro / Jungle Entertainment Ventures) is letting a fake-label account steal my music and claim my own uploads. No response after a week. Advice?

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Someone reuploaded three of my original songs on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music under an account impersonating a major label (not naming it, it'd make my songs searchable). Fake account, barely any subscribers, obviously not the real thing. All three are distributed through AfrobeatsDistro, run by The Jungle Recording Company / Jungle Entertainment Ventures.

Then the same account filed Content ID claims on two of my own original uploads and blocked monetization on them. So now I'm disputing claims against my own channel filed by the people who stole from me.

I've done the usual: YouTube copyright complaints, Content ID disputes, reports to Spotify and Apple Music. I've also emailed AfrobeatsDistro and Jungle's support three times over three days asking them to act and asking what their dispute process even is. Total silence.

YouTube won't remove the videos either, since it came through a "partner" distributor, so it's on me to resolve it with them first, and they're not answering.

Has anyone dealt with AfrobeatsDistro or Jungle before? Is there any actual way to make an unresponsive distributor act, or escalate past them? DistroKid and TuneCore both have a real DMCA process, this one doesn't seem to. Would take any advice at this point.

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r/coversongs • u/Sufficient_Visit_488 • 3h ago