I am trying to clean up the artist(s) Star Academy. They had several releases, split by season (Star Academy 1, Star Academy 8). Discogs has it organized much better; there it is one artist named Star Academy and a bunch of aliases. I would do that here, but there are so many artists, I don’t want to rock that boat without getting some feedback first.
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It looks like a lot of work has gone into splitting these, with member relationships being added for each season: Star Academy 1 - Relationships - MusicBrainz
It seems to make sense to have them as different artists, if each season is a completely new set of members? But I know nothing about this show. Recent editors on those entities that might be more helpful: @wileyfoxyx @cryoclaste @nadtobox
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Technically you could argue it is the same band with new members each year. But logic says it makes more sense to separate them with the show numbers. I’d agree to split them for each show. It makes much more sense for the data clarity.
Especially as the work has already been done to split them into separate artists I agree with @aerozol that it seems better to keep that work. Each entity is a different line-up.
I also assume they should now have a “renamed into” relationship tying them together.
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Or maybe better an Artist Series?
Because, as you say, it’s a brand new group every year.
Update: Ah, it’s already good, I didn’t notice there already was such an Artist Series (first link in OP).
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I would do both. They are already the series, but it is also technically true they are renamed as a new entity each year. I assume no-one of the old lineups appear in the new.
Also separate artists make it so much clearer as to who is in which line-up.
For me, it’s not a rename, as the members disband, and then a new band is formed.
It’s more a series of bands.
I see renames when (some) staying members decide to rename the band.
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