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

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.

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.

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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?

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.