# Do auto-generated (“Topic”) YouTube channels qualify for the Artist-URL / Youtube relationship?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/do-auto-generated-topic-youtube-channels-qualify-for-the-artist-url-youtube-relationship/450366
**Category:** Style
**Tags:** url, youtube, relationships
**Created:** [November 5, 2019, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/do-auto-generated-topic-youtube-channels-qualify-for-the-artist-url-youtube-relationship/450366 "2019-11-05T20:56:33Z")
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### Author: ![Fabe56](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/fabe56/32/9164_2.png) [@Fabe56](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Fabe56)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/do-auto-generated-topic-youtube-channels-qualify-for-the-artist-url-youtube-relationship/450366/13 "2020-08-22T10:42:46Z")

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Honestly, I don’t see any reason to remove them :-/ Or we should adopt the same policy for unofficial artist page from Spotify, Deezer etc. many are also self-generated or share multiples artist under the same ID:

> [@A multi‐source seeder for digital releases](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/a-multi-source-seeder-for-digital-releases/444000/44):
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> You never actually state a question though… slight_smile But yes, Spotify has an issue where multiple artists with the same name will get the same Spotify ID (e.g., [spotify:artist:5KEjVMaEdZ1tHgaAIkZCVp](https://musicbrainz.org/url/33230959-7e0c-4bc8-afcc-c56d5c9898f5)). Spotify is a lot better than Deezer though ([same artist as Spotify ID, but Deezer URL](https://musicbrainz.org/url/7ec4a0a9-9f8a-442e-8c24-fb1de98d9162)) and will sometimes have proper unique IDs even for artist that have the same name. E.g., there are multiple [“Yasmin” artists on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Yasmin/artists), even if some individual ones of them are actually multiple "Yasmin"…

As YouTube Music Team is working to merge all secondary channel to the official one (when it exists), I think the addition of these topic channel is useful for the future (MB will already have the link to the official channel).

![YouTube Music Team](https://community.metabrainz.org/uploads/default/original/3X/9/a/9a7f28a8c0c8f055acadb37d3980f2163ffe4ff0.gif)

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