Talk:Just Dance 2018/@comment-32146075-20170624130002/@comment-1465604-20170625053714

The thing with covers in the Just Dance series is that they appear for two reasons:
 * Getting the rights to use the original is too expensive. This only happens with mega superstars and lately, it hasn't been happening at all with those kinds of songs as Ubisoft is quite literally rolling in money lately.
 * If the song is old enough, there may not be any master recordings left to use, so there's no way to get the songs in good quality.

So it's not that pre-2000 songs are all or often going to be covers, it's that it's hard to find original masters of pre 80's songs nowadays. It's why basically all covers in the series nowadays are either really old songs that have fallen into the public domain and for which there's no definitive recording everyone's attached to (like the "William Tell Overture") or songs that are over 30 years old, like "I Love Rock N' Roll").