Every now and then I get really on my head about which order I should follow when there are two or more artists credited on a release.
For example, would you enter this release as “Romero Ferro, Danny Bond & DJ Zullu” exactly like it is on Apple Music (and other platforms) or as “DJ Zullu, Danny Bond & Romero Ferro” like it is on the cover?
I usually follow the cover order. I assume that the person who designed the image put more thought and effort into it than the person who typed the names into a text field (although in this case, maybe they just went with that order to match the photo…).
it depends on the shop for me. if it’s something like a small artist on their personal Bandcamp where i’m pretty confident the artist typed out the artist credit themself, i’ll go with that & assume they just thought the different credits looked prettier on the cover.
but i’m a little more inclined to go with the cover if it was just released to a store with their own guidelines & ways of doing things like Apple Music.
looking at the cover it should be “Ex:Re” and “12 Ensemble”. digital platforms however also credit “Josephine Stephenson” as an additional main artist while “Apple Music” excludes “12 Ensemble”.
is there some guideline? right now I would go by what the cover states.