Artist Credit

Often, artists work together on tracks and albums in various ways, but it is difficult to credit them. Not only this, but some artists have minor differences in the spelling of their name over different releases, and this information has been hard to capture in the past.

In this server release we have implemented artist credits in places where the artist would have been credited previously. For example, the release artist and track artist fields now display artist credits. To help enter these artist credits an inline JavaScript editor has been added to the release editor. Sadly, this means that this server release is not yet compatible with browsers that have JavaScript disabled, though we hope to address this in a future beta release.

Artist credits bring two main changes:

Collaborations

The first is the ability to link multiple artists to one release or recording, instead of having to create fake "collaboration artists". For example, the single "Under Pressure" being credited to the fake artist of "Queen & David Bowie".

Artist credits solve this by instead linking the single to an artist credit that contains the two distinct artists, "Queen & David Bowie", and making it available from both artist's pages.

Name variation

The second change is the ability to credit an artist with a different name. For example, the artist S.P.Y. can now be credited on a release with the name variation of "SPY".