Two questions, the first question should these two be one artist, the second question how should i set it out

the album

the first question should these two be one artist
Robert & Bobby Wolgemuth


the second question how should i set it out
the artists on this album are listed like this

Joni Eareckson Tada
John MacArthur
Robert & Bobbie Wolgemuth
The Masters Choral

so would you leave the & there if they are separate or replace it with , other wies it will ben Robert & Bobbie Wolgemuth & The Masters Choral

and i can not put them per song i think they all sing in each one

You may find this style guide helpful, especially “Artist credits should generally follow the actual credit used on the release / track, including the join phrases” and “If the release has no join phrase for multiple collaborating artists, but just lists them all separated by whitespace, use the default join phrases (an ampersand between the last two artists, and a comma between the others).”

I think the litmus for making a single artist vs multiple artists out of a duo like that, credited by name, is “are they usually credited together / do they usually operate as a group” (having trouble finding that but it’s in the guidelines somewhere), which in this case I would say is a yes. Compare to husband and wife duo Robin & Linda Williams.

Be sure you’re not confusing the artist credit, which is generally what’s printed as the track artist, with the performers, though. Performers can be sourced from anywhere, as long as there’s convincing evidence, and should be added with relationships, preferably to each track. See this release, where the artist credit is The Hopeful Gospel Quartet but Robin and Linda Williams are credited as performers (and note they are credited individually, just like you would credit separate members of a string quartet).

If they all sing in each song, you should add them as performers to each song. Although also note the release-level relationships on the release above, which is what you do if it isn’t clear which specific tracks that artist performed on.

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i just created Robert & Bobbie Wolgemuth as separate artists by the looks other the a series of 4 albums they dont seam to record songs they wright books instead and they co wright them and wright there own and Bobbie Wolgemuth is dead now so i thort that was the best way to do it.
so it end up like this

Joni Eareckson Tada,
John MacArthur,
Robert &
Bobbie Wolgemuth and
The Masters Choral

the & had to be there according to the album
and there was no point having 2 in a row it would look wrong so i put the last one as and

i got an email from crossway who released the album saying

"Thank you for contacting Crossway. You can put the artist name as Robert Wolgemuth, for he is listed as the “Primary Author” of the CD’s in our internal production pages. I hope this helps. Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance! "

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Cool, that’s pretty authoritative :slight_smile:

Be sure to include that as a note on any related edits

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