Only one primary artist's name should be listed per "Artist Name" field. Having two or more performing artists listed in the same artist name field impairs a release's ability to appear correctly in search results as well as how it will display within our digital partners' stores. If you do need to add additional artists or producer/remixer credits to add, you have a few options.
Primary Artists
If you have a release or track with an additional primary artist (meaning: another artist who contributed to this release, but who is known independently of the first primary artist), use the "additional artist" icon to add more artist fields to correctly enter each primary artist separately. You can find the "additional artist" icon next to the artist name field, and it looks like this:
EXAMPLE:
Track: "Despacito"
Primary Artists: Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee
This does not apply to a group/band name such as "Jessie & Joy" or Simon & Garfunkel, which can be entered in its entirety in the same artist field. This is called a Compound Artist.
Featuring Artists
While using the "additional artist" icon on the track information page, enter the featured artist's name separately. When we deliver the release to our digital partners, the featuring artist's name will correctly appear in the track title.
EXAMPLE:
Track: Despacito (Remix)
Primary Artists: Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee
Featuring Artist: Justin Bieber
How it will look: "Despacito (feat. Justin Bieber)"
If there is more than one featured artist on a track, you can keep adding new artist fields using the "additional artist" icon. Multiple featured artists will be correctly listed in the track title when delivered to our digital partners.
Additionally, you can add a producer and remixer credit in this section as well.
If you need additional help with this, please click on our Babybot for additional instructions.
Producer, and/or Remixer
Same as above, use the "additional artist" icon to add these credits.
Compound Artists
This type of group name does not have to be separated into its own artist field.
EXAMPLE: "Simon & Garfunkel" or "Jessie & Joy"
If you do have a compound artist name (the name includes an "&" or "and" in it), you must be able to supply some links to websites stating your established group name.
If you have sufficient online presence, your compound artist name will be approved once you provide us with at least 2 links to sources from the list below that shows your compound band/artist name exactly as you want.
This is only required if you fail inspection due to having multiple artists in the same field.
If you do receive a fail inspection email, please respond to it with evidence from 2 of the following places:
- Wikipedia page
- Artist/musician Facebook page
- YouTube Video with more than 100 views
- An Active Artist profile of the compound name on iTunes.
- Pre-existing Spotify artist pages that also match iTunes (these must be consistent)
- An official artist website
- An All Music Guide artist listing
- A music site reviewing the artist with the compound artist name
- Vimeo
- VK
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