Digital releases: Merging? / Long country list? / Just [Worldwide]?

There are legitimate reasons to set a finite list of release countries on a Digital Media release. Some labels only release in certain regions because a substantial amount of their music is narrowly licensed:

  1. Vertigo Berlin primarily releases in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
  2. Wrasse Records primarily releases in the United Kingdom and Ireland, but there are spot cases where their license extends to Europe or the Americas.
  3. AVALON primarily releases in Japan.

Maybe what you’re looking for is a limit on the number of release countries that can be attached to a single release. e.g., if someone tries to seed 75+ countries, the release editor would change it to a single country of Worldwide. Is that an acceptable compromise? (That is my current editing approach.)

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