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Once and for all: is it Artist - Song or Song - Artist?
It's gotta be artist then song. The other way really pisses me off -- I'm really OCD about it. Am I right or am I wrong?
It makes sense to put the artist first, because you're narrowing the field or possibilities to one artist, and then narrowing the possibilities down further to a specific song. The other way can be confusing.
If Pistons answers this question, I bet he'll tell me to go outside.
@Dick B, what do you mean?
I mean when you're naming a song. Like if someone says, name the first song that comes up on your iPod, I might put "Nas - Hero" or something.
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- Anonymous10 years agoFavorite Answer
I put it as: Artist - Song
I don't put featured artists, and I capitalize all the words.
I'm extremely OCD about it in my iTunes library as well.
- ?Lv 510 years ago
*considers making Pistons troll accounts to tell you to go outside*
When listing songs I always try to go Artist - Song
I'll be willing to bet my iTunes library is the cleanest out of anyone's here. Say there's a remix of Put Some Money on It featuring The Lox. It's titled Put Some Money on It (feat. The Lox) [Remix]
- Anonymous10 years ago
In Y!A it's always:
Song - Artist
...when I am constructing a list or whatnot. I do it the other way around in a sentence sometimes or if it behooves me to put the artist first. Yeah behooves me.
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- ?Lv 610 years ago
Artist - Song.
e.g I'm listening to: J Dilla - Hi not Hi - J Dilla..doesn't look right..
It actually bugs me when people go: Song - Artist..I'm OCD about that sh*t too lol.
- Anonymous10 years ago
I always put it Artist - Song.
Doesn't really matter much to me though.
- Richard BLv 710 years ago
In what context?
I'm a little confused.
@Turkey M - When and where do people put "artist - song" or "song - artist"?
EDIT: I don't know. I look at my music by album.
I don't really care actually.
- Anonymous10 years ago
I go back and forth on it.
@Dick B, when you're saying song names do you write it like
Be - Common
or
Common - Be
- Anonymous10 years ago
Song - Artist
It really doesn't matter though. That's just what I see most often.