When different artists with identical names have songs and albums on Genius, disambiguation is used to differentiate and separate them, which keeps each artist's own discography on their own artist pages. We disambiguate artist names by adding a descriptor in parentheses after the artist's name to make it unique. For instance, in the case of the British band called Traffic and the rapper named Traffic, the rapper named Traffic is disambiguated as "Traffic (Rapper)".Q&AWho rеtains the primary artist page?

The most rеcognized artist retains the primary artist page. Recognition is based on page views, streaming popularity, the artist's active period, and the artist's role within the music they make. If there's uncertainty about who should be disambiguated, a moderator can be consulted.

What are the common disambiguation methods?

Disambiguation usually involves adding the country, state, occupation, genre, or other information relevant to the artist.

What is the best way to disambiguate an artist page?

There are several ways to disambiguate a page with multiple artists:

• Utilize available resources
• Add "Unsorted" Disambiguation
• Create a Genius Disambiguations pageGuidelines• Country
• State
• Occupation or Role
• Genre
• Year
• Other
• Special Cases

Note: There are times where there are two artists that would validly use a disambiguation. It is okay to add a secondary disambiguation for a case such as this in the form of (Country) (Genre) or (Occupation) (Genre).Special ExceptionsThe site uses fingerprints and slugs to determine whether a name is allowed or it needs to be disambiguated. This tool was created by Reece to allow us to see what these are.

• Fingerprint
• Slug
• A, An, Da, Tha, The exception
• S and Z exception
• Mr. and Mister exception
• Special characters exception
• Diacritic characters exceptionForeign AlphabetsFor artists/songs with names in foreign alphabets, disambiguation is required. Here are the templates for:

• Arabic or Hebrew (read right-to-left)

• Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Thai, and Georgian (read left-to-right)Disambiguation TrackingTracking disambiguations can sometimes be challenging due to the large number of search results. To simplify this, a page has been created to list all disambiguations. Instructions on its usage are available in the bio.