Just a question about strange Japanese release specifics again. Bare with me
So the release is called True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog. Itās a compilation of songs from Sonic games (not necessarily soundtrack but title themes etc., but still from the games so I donāt know if that means itās technically soundtrack too?) so my first instinct was to credit as various artists. Somebody has credited the the sequel to this compilation to ē¬äøē“ - who is referenced in the booklet but only for āCompilation Produced for Release byā, but not on the cover at all so Iāll assume thatās wrong. But the cover art says Sonic the Hedgehog in huge letters, CDJapan as well as Music Forest credit it to Sonic the Hedgehog, but itās not on the obi/spine. So do I just stick to my gut and credit it to various, or credit it to Sonic the Hedgehog? I feel like my instinct is right but Iād like to confirm before I submit something.
Also an afterthought: tracklist, lyric booklet, back cover, spine and all has all latin script in capitals, itās a Japanese release but various artists and not all artists are Japanese, so in this case is it still correct to have tracklist in all capitals?
So, credit release group to VA? I donāt know if I havenāt been clear but I was talking about the artist credits in reference to the release as a whole, not the individual tracks. Iāve seen that page but it doesnāt say anything that I havenāt already seen. It says again that it was prepared for release by Jun Senoue but no indication of an artist either. But my point was that it says Sonic the Hedgehog on the front and other places seem to hint it being credited to Sonic the Hedgehog. Therefore should it still go to VA?
Iād expect VA because itās not really āhere are some tracks by Sonic the Hedgehogā, but āhere are some tracks used in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchiseā.
And Iād probably use allcaps if thatās what the release has.
Iād add this as āTrue Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehogā by Various Artists, with each track credited to the respective performer/composer. Iād set the release type as album+soundtrack+compilation.
Crediting it to VA makes the most sense (but probably with an AC of āSonic the Hedgehogā, based on that cover art.
If MB has a Sonic Team artist, that would also work for the release, since thatās also on the cover (probably with the same AC).
Is that really an artist credit? I donāt see that as crediting the album to āSonic the Hedgehogā, I see that as just branding the album as being part of the franchise ā somewhere between a label and a series, though not close enough to make me want to put it in either field. If we were to go with anything, Iād agree that āSonic Teamā is the best AC given that one image, but unless some other page credits them more directly the āVarious Artistsā should be perfectly fine. As a note to everyone else, @pomparapekoluna has already added the release, if anyone wants to copy over the VGMdb info. Iāll probably get to it eventally, but itās not one of my priorities at the moment.
Oh, and @pomparapekoluna, since you have the physical disk, it might be nice if you could add scans of at least the back (since thatās not on the other sites) and the front (to match), and preferably the booklet as well.
EDIT: Well, it is on the VGMdb page, I just canāt figure out how to get it big enough to actually be able to make anything out.
Well an AC just seems like the nicest way to map that cover image. It feels wrong not to represent the largest piece of text.
Could also just make it all into the title: āSonic the Hedgehog: True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehogā.
Of course, with neither spine nor obi repeating it, I suppose considering it as just a text-shaped graphic is defensible too.
