Song comparisons

Larger Than Life by Backstreet Boys and Covered by Roses by Within Temptation: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 81%, another version of the same song.

81%Another version of the same song
Harmony49%
Melody67%
Sound60%
Rhythm35%

Raised to 81% by the other-version check, which finds these to be versions of the same song; the engine's own measure was 22%.

Larger Than LifeCovered by Roses
ArtistBackstreet BoysWithin Temptation
KeyC MinorE Minor
Tempo108 BPM121 BPM
Most alike passage1:34–1:590:28–0:50

Track B moved down 4 semitones (E Minor to C Minor)

On Sonalize’s other-version check (a cover-song model), this pair is as close as other versions of the same song usually are (distance 0.58; other versions of a song in these comparisons have a median of 0.31, different songs that sound alike 1.27, random pairs 2.95).

How this was measured

Compared from the full recordings; Sonalize's fingerprint lookup confirmed both songs. The same engine runs in the Sonalize app on your own device. A score measures how alike two recordings are; it isn't a finding about copying, legal advice, or a rights clearance.

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