Product Update: Artist Clean-Up Edition

Our regular Product Updates give you a rundown of the features and bug fixes that were rolled out over the past week, plus a look ahead to some of the bigger changes that are on the way.

We are cleaning up our network's 'Artists' lists.

Not every 'Artist' in our network is an actual artist.

No, this is not an argument for musical authenticity or artistic integrity.

What we mean is this: There are quite a few duplicated, misspelled or otherwise incorrectly created artists - many of which are actually collaborations between artists (see above).

These artists clog up the list of suggestions when searching our sites or adding artists to events - and they make us look bad.

But we're putting an end to all that.


Tomorrow, we'll be running a script to sort all Artists into two groups: 'legit' and 'non-legit.'

A band is 'legit' if any of these conditions is TRUE at the time of checking its legitimacy:

1) The band is part of ANY festival
2) The band has ANY of these things: a facebook ID, a facebook URL, a description, a hometown, or an image
3) The band has ANY events from the past 6 months forward
4) The band has MORE THAN ONE event ever

Legit artists will behave the same way that you're used to.

Non-legit artists will behave the same way except:
- They will not appear when adding bands (front-end and radmin)
- They will not appear in front-end search
- They will not appear in Radmin search unless 'non-legit artists' is checked or (coming soon) you're searching for the purposes of merging artists.

Non-legit bands will still have pages and links on the front-end - you just won't be able to find their pages through search.

Want to make a non-legit artist legit? Simply edit the Artists' page in Radmin and check the 'Legit' box,



We'll be kicking this off tomorrow - and updating these lists every night so your metro stays updated.

None of this will effect your day-to-day work at all. It will just make your life easier and your site more awesome.

What does everyone think? Let us know! We want your feedback - and, as always, please let us know if anything looks incorrect to you once this gets rolled out.