# Artist splitting doujin works to a different artist on streaming services
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-splitting-doujin-works-to-a-different-artist-on-streaming-services/749573
**Category:** Style
**Tags:** en, digital-media, doujin
**Created:** [March 16, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-splitting-doujin-works-to-a-different-artist-on-streaming-services/749573 "2025-03-16T17:44:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@DeadEnd000PL](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/DeadEnd000PL)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-splitting-doujin-works-to-a-different-artist-on-streaming-services/749573/1 "2025-03-16T17:44:53Z")
[UNDEAD CORPORATION](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/49ea914d-11df-4515-9d08-7f72a9bf0219) on streaming services is split into UNDEAD CORPORATION (original albums) ([Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/6fKT4n1tGdjiH5RwNRQuTf)) and UNDEAD CORPORATION DOUJIN WORKS (touhou arrangements) ([Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/artist/5NETkMPykaG8ngC1VcubSX)).
Should they be the same artist and the links to the latter added to the first?
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### Author:  [@UltimateRiff](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/UltimateRiff)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 4:21am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-splitting-doujin-works-to-a-different-artist-on-streaming-services/749573/2 "2025-03-18T04:21:16Z")
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)
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### Author:  [@reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/reosarevok)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 10:39am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-splitting-doujin-works-to-a-different-artist-on-streaming-services/749573/3 "2025-03-18T10:39:34Z")
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”.
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### Author:  [@DeadEnd000PL](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/DeadEnd000PL)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-splitting-doujin-works-to-a-different-artist-on-streaming-services/749573/4 "2025-03-18T16:28:54Z")
> [@reosarevok](#):
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> All the covers say that and release dates are marked as quite a few years ago for some of them.
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](https://open.spotify.com/album/0pEfDPZko6TnNOgrZMe5nn) even though it has 2011 remastered tracks has date set to 1986).
Wayback Machine shows the artist with original albums goes back to [2014](https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://open.spotify.com/artist/6fKT4n1tGdjiH5RwNRQuTf).
There, there's only the first original album.
For doujin works, it goes back to [2021](https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://open.spotify.com/artist/5NETkMPykaG8ngC1VcubSX).
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](https://musicbrainz.org/label/81edeff9-c4ed-4bcd-93ec-ec97f17be8f9), although I don’t know if it has any importance.
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### Author:  [@DeadEnd000PL](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/DeadEnd000PL)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-splitting-doujin-works-to-a-different-artist-on-streaming-services/749573/5 "2025-05-25T17:12:22Z")
I found the [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcW0_EyQMGy5-knhTKJjWeQ) of UNDEAD CORPORATION DOUJIN WORKS.
The channel’s description says:
> UNDEAD CORPORATION DOUJIN WORKS is a solo project by Kensuke of UNDEAD CORPORATION.
I guess that makes it a separate artist.
I added [it](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/84712fdc-8216-4345-9463-2359e2720fb6) and [a new release](https://musicbrainz.org/release/5570640d-8a54-4195-ac42-bbca22803fba).
I assume that for new releases, DOUJIN WORKS artist should be used.
As for digital releases of old albums, would it be fine to credit them to the original UNDEAD CORPORATION and add annotation to DOUJIN WORKS about it?