I’ve come across another album where some of the tracks are marked as (<member name> Solo):
I was thinking these should work similarly to featured artist (which also exist on this release), with the track (and possibly recording artist) set to the artist entity of the member, and not the group they’re part of. Of course, an alternative would be crediting the the track to the group, and only adding (solo) vocals relationships. Even then, I’d personally remove the text in parentheses from the track name.
However, it appears that there is no consensus for my take (edit #112244713) and a lot of inconsistency between existing releases.
ETI removed, with or without vocals relationship:
ETI in track name:
Proper artist credits:
What is the guidance here? I’d love to have some discussion or simply a decision from the style lead (@reosarevok) to have something to refer to.
does “[member] Solo” appear on any releases? I don’t see it on Virgin at all (specifically this release), and none of the other examples seem to have full CD scans in the release groups
alternatively, do you know where these “[member] Solo” credits come from?
I can’t speak to the CD copies(And not all releases get physical copies AFAIK), but here is some examples from digital streaming services
Also to be clear for anyone not into this type of music, they are groups of all singers(no instruments played by members), and they generally all sing in each song, but these “solo” songs have only one member singing.
As a person who barely listens to k-pop, I’d expect solo tracks to have solo artist credits (so, just credit the member), personally, like in
I guess if the solo track is uncredited (so, it doesn’t say X solo at all and just credits the band) I’d keep the band credit, but then it also doesn’t belong on the title, just the relationships.