# Worldwide vs. listing all countries

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/worldwide-vs-listing-all-countries/586935>\
**Category:** Style\
**Tags:** release, digital-media, style, musicbrainz\
**Created:** [May 28, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/worldwide-vs-listing-all-countries/586935 "2022-05-28T16:19:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![anklebiter](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/anklebiter/32/56173_2.png) [@anklebiter](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/anklebiter)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/worldwide-vs-listing-all-countries/586935/1 "2022-05-28T16:19:47Z")

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Why are people going in and changing releases that are Worldwide to listing all the countries. If you have over 200 countries, I consider that Worldwide. Having a handful of excluded countries make no sense on listing every one of them out. Please explain this “logic”!

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**Author:** ![chaban](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/chaban/32/111349_2.png) [@chaban](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/chaban)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/worldwide-vs-listing-all-countries/586935/2 "2022-05-28T16:28:31Z")

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Please use the existing thread:

> [@Digital releases: Merging? / Long country list? / Just \[Worldwide\]?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/digital-releases-merging-long-country-list-just-worldwide/440381):
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> this is the main version mine ended up here can i have some help correcting my mistake its something I almost always seem to do with existing releases frowning can someone with more Knowledge correct my error

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**Author:** ![tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@tigerman325](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tigerman325)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/worldwide-vs-listing-all-countries/586935/3 "2022-05-28T18:10:21Z")

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Because there are 250 current regions (“countries”), if a release isn’t in major markets, i.e. US but in 249, it’s still not Worldwide. If it’s not in say a very small country only, many won’t care. However, I look at licensing labels. Sometimes a different label or barcode might have a release in say AU/NZ or AT/CH/DE, etc. Therefore the other releases shouldn’t be listed as Worldwide if the label/barcode isn’t the same in all markets.