Guideance on when to create a new group vs using split artist credits for group names consisting of list of artists names, e.g Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

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When artist collaborate together for entire album, should a new group be created. I noted that this is the case for Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_to_Split_Artists

Please make sure the artist should be split before entering the edit! Established bands (like Emerson, Lake and Palmer) shouldn’t be split; this is intended for short term collaborations that don’t merit their own artist page.

In the releases I’m question two of the artists are consistently making albums together often with a third collaborator for a whole album. Are these groups? They are currently entered as split artists. It seems like the artists intent is for each of these release to be by the whole, as a group rather than some artists being featured. Without a new group, there isn’t a MB ID for the combined entity.

https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/d03818e3-47bc-4cf7-8eb0-cea1685c2c9c

https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/085347fe-15b6-49c6-ae91-a2b40e4eb4ad

https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/ba9050ce-86a8-4f9a-84cf-e7f37ed6e733

https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/9bb5eea4-7a72-4e21-b89e-ad2d8b1ed2f4

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“Shabason & Krgovich” does seem like potentially a legitimate artist entry. They do have their own shared social media for example. In that case, I’d probably do something like “Shabason & Krgovich” & “Tenniscoats”, etc.

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Thank you! Interesting observation. There is also joint social media for Shabason,Krgovich and Harris. Seems that suggests an intent that this is also seen as a group, in addition to Shabason & Krgovich?

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Potentially, yes - although that seems to have been used only for that one collab so it’s a bit less obvious, I think you could see it both ways.