Music covers are almost a surefire way of garnering quick attention. Ever wondered which songs are the most covered in music history.

While covering a hit song may be the best way for artists to get noticed, noticeable covers can lend extra miles to the originals. Here's the most covered song-list that could've benefitted both.

'Yesterday’ | The Beatles

Covers: 422

Paul McCartney, the songwriter, after having written this song was apprehensive that he might have plagiarized it because to him it was so simple. Turns out, others - a veritable smorgasbord of Rock royalty, cannot have enough of this song written about the death of McCartney's mother when he was 14.

Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, and Boyz II Men, inter alia, have lipped it.

‘Eleanor Rigby’ | The Beatles

Covers: 349

Majority of this song, the name of which is a portmanteau of Elanor - an actress who had started in the Beatles video 'Help!' and the first half of a store in Bristol Rigby and Evens, is credited to have flourished under the penmanship of Paul McCartney.

Ray Charles had covered this as well as did Aretha Franklin, Joan Baez and interestingly Alice Cooper in 2014. But none can do it better than McCartney, as Cooper vouchsafed.

'And I Love Her’ | The Beatles

Covers: 263

John Denver, Neil Diamond, Smokey Robinson, Barry Manilow coma Lena Horne and the Wailers, Richard Marx with Vince Gill and others totalling 30 in all had recorded this John Lennon – Paul McCartney hit, before the decade when it was released – which was in June 1964 – ended.

Ask McCartney, and he would say that his favourite cover version of this song is 'And I love him' by Esther Phillips. Even grunge Rocker Kurt Cobain could not resist the song's charms.

'Silent Night’ | John Freeman Young

Covers: 254

Austrian lied, 'Stille Nacht! Heilige Nach', sung on 1818 Christmas Eve was the inspiration behind the English version which then became a Christmas staple.

None other than Stevie Nicks and Frank Sinatra has a version to their names. 'White Christmas' famed, Bing Crosby recorded his version in 1935 to move 35 million copies worldwide.

'Michelle’ | The Beatles

Covers: 243

Michelle Obama was serenaded by her namesake song in 2010, when she was the first lady, by Paul McCartney on the occasion of him winning the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. But that's not the highest award that this song merited. It won the 1966 Song of the year Grammy.

Versions of this song abound across multiple genres like Rock, Reggae, Funk and even easy listening, with covers by Diana Ross and the Supremes, George Martin, Ben Harper, The Four Tops and the likes.