YouTube Tags for Music Covers
For covers, include the song title, the original artist and the style of your version. Credit the original artist in the description as well.
Tags to paste into YouTube Studio
cover song, acoustic cover, guitar cover, piano cover, vocal cover, original song, unplugged, live performance, singing, music video, new music, song cover 2026, indie music, songwriter, lyrics video
199 of 500 characters used (commas and spaces included). Edit before pasting so every tag matches your video.
Hashtags for the description
#cover #music #acoustic
Put these at the end of the description. YouTube may show the first three above the title; if a video has more than 60 hashtags, YouTube ignores all hashtags per video; going over 15 causes all hashtags to be ignored.
How to adapt this set
- Add the song title and original artist exactly as they appear.
- Name your instrument or style.
- Follow copyright and licensing rules for covers.
Tags play a small role next to your title, thumbnail and description. Use them for spelling variations and related phrases, and make sure each one describes the video. Need something more specific? Try theYouTube tag generator.