Featured artists not credited on compilation

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I have a question regarding featured artists not credited on compilations.

I have a compilation boxset in front of me called: Oerend hard: de bokse vol 1974–1984 featuring a lot of albums and singles of the rockgroup ‘Normaal’. One of the tracks Bier, bier, bier! is not credited to Johnny Hoes at all on the boxset, he is only mentioned singing on the track in the booklet.

However, the original single and song was released under the name Johnny Hoes & Normaal.

I use the musicbrainz guidelines to tag my personal music library and wondered if I should put the artist of the track as only ‘Normaal’, as ‘Normaal & Johnny Hoes’ or as ‘Johnny Hoes & Normaal’

The latter seems correct to me but I would love to hear some more opinions on this. I’ve seen this a few times now on compilations where some cooperating artists are left out of the credits on compilations, but are prominently featured on their original releases.

Thanks as always!

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I’d probably leave the track as printed, but not the recording. That said, if the release has a lot of mistakes and seems like they didn’t care much (not uncommon with compilations) then I could see us just assuming it was not intentional and fixing them all, including the artists, as part of error correction.

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I came across this here; https://musicbrainz.org/release/fbf053f0-d58b-40ab-beb2-374fa677ac94

For example, I think there are more of this kind of “error”;
The 2-10 track Boogie Wonderland Recording artist: Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions is credited only by Earth, Wind & Fire on the back-cover and the booklet.

Am I correct in wanting to change (correct?) the credit to include The Emotions as in the recordings entry?

Edit:
I guess the same logic would apply to the titles of tracks on compilations, looking at the edit page under the “Recordings” tab there are many with the option to check the “Update the recording title to match the track title.” checkmark, which I am very tempted to just check for all of them. And then update all the missing featured artist credits also.

Edit2: I’ve just done so

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No, it’s not correct. :grin:

You can keep the recording title and artist credit correct.

But the track title and artist credit should stay as printed on the release, except if there is a typo, or something like a mistake.

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