Coverville

A 30-minute music podcast featuring cover songs, usually published three times a week. Licensed with ASCAP, BMI and SESAC.
Hosted by	Brian Ibbott
Genre	Cover songs
Language	English
Updates	Once a week
Length	Varies, but at usually longer than an hour
Original release	September 2004 – present
Website	http://www.coverville.com/

Coverville is a podcast featuring cover versions of pop, rock and country songs by new and established performers. The show is produced and hosted by Brian Ibbott out of his home in Arvada, Colorado.

Coverville is also part of the programming of the KYCY-AM "open source radio" station in San Francisco.

Ibbott, who wanted to be a disc jockey as a child, began his DJ career at weddings, though was bored with the music selection such venues permitted. A TechTV story he saw in August 2004 got him interested in podcasting. The first Coverville podcast was launched on September 28, 2004. Coverville passed episode #300 on March 4, 2007 and episode #500 on August 26, 2008, which was celebrated with a "gala" in Las Vegas where fans could meet with artists featured on the show.

Coverville "paved the way" for the legal podcasting of copyrighted music: early in Coverville's history, Ibbott contacted major performance rights organisations (initially ASCAP and BMI) to license music for his podcast. In October 2004, Brian met with ASCAP and BMI to explain the technology and delivery methods behind podcasting, and they adapted their non-interactive license to include podcast licensing. Ibbott was active in publicizing this information among other podcasters.

Coverville has been discussed in articles appearing in print and online publications such as Rolling Stone and BusinessWeek Online, and recommended by the BBC. In 2005, 2011, 2012, and 2013, Coverville won Podcast Connect's People's Choice Podcast Award in the "Podcast Safe Music" category.

In 2005, Ibbott estimated 5000 subscribers for Coverville, which grew by 2007 to an estimated 35,000 listeners.

A typical episode of Coverville has about six cover songs, and they are generally released on a three-per-week schedule. Weekly features typically include a Sunday all-request show, trivia challenges (where Brian, with help from his wife, try to solve various name-that-tune type challenges), and the Uncovered Gem Of The Week, a track that isn't a cover, but that the host likes. It is common for an episode of Coverville to have a theme. Frequent themes include: