Style/Language

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Status: This is an official style guideline.

General Guidelines

When capitalizing song titles, album titles, or artist names, the appropriate grammatical rules for the language the text is written in should be applied unless it can be shown that that the artist wishes the capitalization to be grammatically incorrect, in which case the artist's version of the title or name is the correct one to use.

In the case where a title or name has been printed using different variations of capitalization, whether on a single release or across multiple releases and is therefore not consistently applied, and if there is no evidence that the artist has a preference, then the appropriate grammatical rules of the language in question should be applied regardless of what has been printed.

Language-Specific Guidelines

For more detailed information on language specific grammar rules, see the following pages, or propose one if a language is not represented here.

Note: If you are unsure about the correct language of a title, Tell Similar Languages Apart may help.

History

The Capitalization Standards began with Capitalization Proposal, which applied to every language. That original guideline now forms the core of Capitalization Standard English, while other guidelines have since been added to the Capitalization Standards to cover some of the other languages which use scripts which support an upper/lowercase concept.