Frequently Asked Questions

Artist Pages

How are the similar artists calculated?
The list of artists which you may see on an artist page as being "similar" is based exactly on our user's listening habits. If a lot of users listen to Artist X, but also Artist Y and Z - Y and Z artists will become similar to X.

With a few added constants and other functions thrown into the equation to help make it more accurate, you'll find that's how Similar Artists are made.
How are the images for an artist chosen?
The artist images are uploaded by the artists and labels themselves, or by you, the users.

To get an image to appear for that artist go to that artist's page, click on "Images" in the left-hand menu and select the option to upload an image.

After uploading your image, your image will appear towards the end of all available images for that artist. Official artist and label uploaded images will take precedence over user uploaded images. In order to get your image further up the listing, it will need to receive positive votes.

If you find an image you feel is inappropriate, or incorrect, you can flag the image. Once an image is flagged, a moderator can delete it if the image is wrong, inappropriate or of poor taste.
Is it possible to merge different profiles for the same artist into one?
It is currently not possible to merge different profiles for the same artist into one artist profile. For instance, if there are other profiles with different spellings of the name of a particular artist, it is not possible to have these redirect to the profile with the correctly spelled name. Please note that this also applies for tracks and albums.

That this works for some artist profiles, for instance that "Beatles" redirects to "The Beatles", is due to an older moderation system which no new moderations can be added to any more.

We are working on a solution to this issue, and we will announce when a new moderation system is in place.

In the meantime, please make sure that the music files you scrobble have correct ID3 tags, also as it is currently not possible to change the spelling of an artist or track name once scrobbled to your profile.

You can also help us to gather more information on the different spellings of artist and track names by fingerprinting your music, as this information will eventually allow us to know what the correct spellings are, and to moderate other entries for different spellings based on this. You can find some more information about fingerprinting in our blog.
And what about artists with the same name?
It is currently not possible to disambiguate artists with the same name, which means that if an artist shares their name with at least one other artist, they will have to share one Last.fm artist profile.

Please note that any other valid artist with the same name has the equal right to appear on such a shared profile, including their music, their pictures, their artist description and any other information on them.
It is for instance not allowed to remove their description from the wiki, and it is also not possible to have an official primary image for one artist, while there are other pictures for the other artist(s) which all users can vote for and thus decide which one of the artists should get the "main" image.

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