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I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston: how alike are they?

Sonalize compared the two recordings: 88%, near-identical or shared recording.

88%Near-identical or shared recording
Harmony100%
Melody69%
Sound62%
Rhythm76%

Consistent with the same recording being reused (a sample) or a faithful cover or re-recording.

I Will Always Love YouI Will Always Love You
ArtistDolly PartonWhitney Houston
KeyA MajorE Major
Tempo136 BPM134 BPM
Most alike passage0:14–1:071:17–2:10

Same key

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 0.49; 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).

Why this pair

This is a cover version. Public background: country to pop ballad, key change; cover. Sonalize's scores are measurements, not a view on any dispute.

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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