How to add Release featuring artists you're not familiar with?

MusicBrainz
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Hello, there!

Question is as the title says. If I want to add a Release, but am not familiar with an artist (say, a featured artist), how do I go about this?

I was about to fill in a Release, one of my ListenBrainz unlinked. But there’s a featured artist, who shows up on Spotify with no information whatsoever, no Releases. Nothing but this feature. And MusicBrainz has at least three artists with the same name. I don’t know if any match, I don’t know exactly how to figure this out. My quick research online has shown signs of someone that could fit, but I can’t exactly confirm. How should one go about it in this scenario?

Thank you for your time!

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On occasion, I’ve sent the artist that I think is the correct one an email (or other contact method) explaining that I’m updating the information in MusicBrainz and asking them to confirm whether or not they are the correct artist. I’m about 50% on having them respond.

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If I really can’t match the artist I will add a new one with a disambiguation like:

  1. Artist (features on “[song]”)
  2. Artist (features on “[artist]” songs)
  3. Artist (New Zealand? hip hop)
  4. Artist (hip hop)
  5. Artist (unknown)

etc, or a combination of that kind of thing. Dependant on the context and what information is available.

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