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Artists with the same name

Artists with the same name

What if anything does Spotify do when there's more than one artist with the same or similar names that get categorized as the same artist? I've seen this a couple times, where the picture is of one artist/band and the songs are a completely different artist/band. How is this corrected? 

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Hey @yaadetroitewaa,

 

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

 

We appreciate the time you took to report this. You can check out this article to learn how to report it.

 

Keep in mind that the way the content is displayed in the app is the way that it was submitted by the artist or the label/distributor, but you can still report any errors you've noticed by following the steps in the article.

 

We hope you found this helpful. Let us know if you need anything else.

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Just as an example: look up Billy Jones. Notice that in 1920 he's a white guy, by 1972 he's a black guy — and at one point he turns into an Indian guy with a totally different name. What are you doing? How does this even happen? They're obviously 3 different artists — why are they listed under one name? Did who ever upload this even look at it? Regardless — you, the platform — need to make sure this doesn't [can't] happen. The issue of multiple artists with the same name should have been something you addressed loooooong before version 1 was ever released to the public — that's it's still an issue now in 2024 speaks to there being some issues behind the scenes.

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