Fictitious Artist
A fictitious artist is a person (or group) that does not exist in the real world but is in one way or the other of discographic relevance - e.g. characters from a movie - and therefore exists as a valid artist in the database. The actor, voice actor, or creator that exists in real life isn't directly credited to the releases or track but is linked to the fictional artist through a Performance Name Relationship Type.
This could lead to a chain of characters such as with the members of Spın̈al Tap: Christopher Guest performs as Nigel Tufnel who is a member of Spın̈al Tap. As stated in Don't Make Relationship Clusters, and to avoid potential problems, make sure the chain is linear and doesn't take shortcuts: for example, Christopher Guest is not a member of Spinal Tap.
List of fictitious artists
This is an alphabetically ordered, manually updated (and therefore incomplete) list of artists that are in some way fictitious. Please add missing artists.
- The artists on the A Mighty Wind soundtrack:
- The Chipmunks (a.k.a. Alvin & The Chipmunks)
- Deathmøle, a band formed by characters from the webcomic Questionable Content
- Disney characters:
- IM@S ALLSTARS, the nine fictional idols from THE IDOLM@STER, including but not limited to:
- The Rutles parody The Beatles.
- シートベルツ (The Seatbelts)
- Sesamstraat (Dutch Sesame Street)
- Sesamstraße (German Sesame Street)
- South Park characters:
- Big Gay Al
- The Broflovskis
- Eric Cartman
- Liane Cartman
- Chef, voiced by Isaac Hayes
- Cowboy Timmy
- Mr. Garrison, the 3rd Grade Teacher
- Ned Gerblansky
- Gregory
- Adolf Hitler
- Saddam Hussein
- Mr. Hankey
- Mr. Mackey
- Kenny McCormick
- Ms. McCormick
- Satan the Dark Prince
- Sharon Marsh
- The South Park Children's Choir
- Stan Marsh
- Terrance and Phillip
- Wendy Testaburger
- Ted's Band (also credited as The Worthless Peons, portrayed in Scrubs by the real-life band The Blanks)
- The artists on the День радио soundtrack, all performed by Несчастный случай:
- Барон Тузенбах (punk)
- Двое против ветра (acoustic folk)
- Джон и Катапульты (blues)
- Железный дровосек (heavy metal)
- Эдик Жданов (Russian chanson)
- Кошки академика Павлова (alternative)
- Лиловый пурпур (gothic)
- Поляна Квасова (Ukrainian ethno)
- Черри Пашки (pop boys band)