UNDEAD CORPORATION on streaming services is split into UNDEAD CORPORATION (original albums) (Spotify) and UNDEAD CORPORATION DOUJIN WORKS (touhou arrangements) (Spotify).
Should they be the same artist and the links to the latter added to the first?
1 Like
personally, I’d probably add a new artist for this (likely with a Subgroup relationship between them), since there’s a distinction between the two artists (even tho it’s the same group of people), but you could use artist credits and connect them to the current MusicBrainz entity if you feel they’re similar enough. with a case like this, it’s fairly easy to split if someone decides later to do so
(note you can also add Credited as names to URL relationships)
1 Like
I understand these were all released as UNDEAD CORPORATION anyway originally? All the covers say that and release dates are marked as quite a few years ago for some of them.
In that case, I’d keep them all under UNDEAD CORPORATION, maybe with a different credit, but not sure I’d even do that if the cover is the same and the split seems to be some weird legal technicality thing.
Are the digital releases new? If not, and the digital releases were originally just UNDEAD CORPORATION, then the old releases need to remain under that name anyway, and the only question is whether to add new, renamed “re-issues”.
2 Likes
For the release dates, I think the original physical release dates are inserted.
On Spotify, there are releases that have original physical release dates (Queen's A Kind of Magic even though it has 2011 remastered tracks has date set to 1986).
Wayback Machine shows the artist with original albums goes back to 2014.
There, there's only the first original album.
For doujin works, it goes back to 2021.
The touhou albums are there.
I looked at the first few touhou albums with Harmony, and they are released under 東方同人音楽流通 label, although I don’t know if it has any importance.