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kabouter.pis March 09, 2010 22:54

top 50 artists importing via last.fm sometimes spells them wrong

I've just noticed a small issue when i imported the top 50 artists on my last.fm profile.
In this case, the artist that has been imported was listed as KoЯn thus giving 0 events. last.fm changes these tags automaticly to turn the R around.
There are probably many other artists like this that will return 0 events while the site has the artist in it's database.
However it could also be only with korn so i didn't really know if this was a problem or an idea. Other than that i think this site is great and a perfect component for the future of the online music industry!
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  • EmilyS EMPLOYEE
    EmilyS (Community Manager) March 12, 2010 14:49
    Hey there,

    Yes, this is more of an isolated issue whereby we had two entries for the band: "Korn" and "KoЯn".

    Because Last.fm have it listed with the backwards R, and we had an existing listing with it spelt that way, it matched it with that instead of our main Korn page (http://www.songkick.com/artists/20297....

    I'm not sure there's anything we can do about that right now as it's a case of their data not exactly matching ours - but in 99% of other cases it usually matches fine!

    Thanks for flagging it up though, and make sure you track the other Korn one now :)

    Let me know if you have any questions.

    Emily.
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    good answer! good answer! (undo)
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