# How to get Artist and Releases Genres information

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-get-artist-and-releases-genres-information/593710
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** releases, artist, genres
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-get-artist-and-releases-genres-information/593710 "2022-07-20T18:23:31Z")
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### Author: ![azurnity](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/67e7ee/32.png) [@azurnity](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/azurnity)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-get-artist-and-releases-genres-information/593710/1 "2022-07-20T18:23:32Z")

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I pulled Artists and releases json data from [Index of /pub/musicbrainz/data/json-dumps/](http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/json-dumps/). After decompressing and extracting the data, I have noticed that all the genres field are empty arrays for all artists and releases in Json data. Is this intended ( “genres”:)?

Files pulled:  
[http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/json-dumps/20220716-001001/artist.tar.xz](http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/json-dumps/20220716-001001/artist.tar.xz)  
[http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/json-dumps/20220716-001001/release.tar.xz](http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/json-dumps/20220716-001001/release.tar.xz)

I believe the intention is to include the genres arrays genres as the key is present but empty in the JSON release dump.

If this is intended, is there any suggestion on where to get this genres data for Artist and Releases and how to add/join this data to this json.

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### Author: ![reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/reosarevok/32/69228_2.png) [@reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/reosarevok)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2022, 7:05am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-get-artist-and-releases-genres-information/593710/2 "2022-07-22T07:05:57Z")

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This was broken, hopefully will be fixed soon if it isn’t already:

> [@Missing genres from releases dump](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/missing-genres-from-releases-dump/586008/7):
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> The recent schema change accidentally deleted tag/genre data from our mirror server which generates the JSON dumps ([MBS-12508](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-12508)). I restored that data & am generating new dumps now. P.S. Sorry for not seeing this earlier. The best way to report an issue is through [https://tickets.metabrainz.org](https://tickets.metabrainz.org) since tickets there go directly to developers’ mailboxes. slight_smile