Buffy the Vampire Slayer - musical soundtrack, 'artist' vs 'recording artist'?

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hi,

i was just looking at this release group for ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More With Feeling’ (a soundtrack album of the musical episode of a TV show):

on some of the releases, for example this one, all the tracks are listed with ‘Joss Whedon’ as the artist:

but on others, such as this one, the actual singers/actors are listed as the artists:

the second example makes a lot more sense to me, since Joss Whedon wrote the works, but he didn’t sing on any of the recordings.

but i don’t want to dive in and start submitting a load of edits here, since i’m still new and don’t really know what i’m doing, so… can i ask for some advice here? what’s the correct way to credit these releases?

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Looks like someone trying to apply “Classical Style” to a pop\rock album.

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This would really fall under whatever guidelines there are for musical theater.

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“Track Artist Credits should be as listed on the release. In most cases this will be the writers”
I don’t see the writers listed in the track listing. Therefore I would do it like in the second example. Actually, it should be {artist} credited as {role}. :slight_smile:

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