Recording artists continue to publish track titles (and album titles, and certain artist names) using everything available in the ASCII table, or they continue to think the e. e. cummings thing is original, or it’s like we’re still living in a 6-bit world.
The trouble with a global music market is that some distributors fail to convert Asian language symbols to English letters for other markets, although I wish streaming services had a way to automatically adjust this.
Or it’s a Prince thing. Or the title is so anonymous that it makes casual discovery impossible. Or they’re using Julian dates.
I’ve been guilty of some of this, too, as you’ll see, but I’ll never do it again. It makes a lot of things on the reporting (and royalty payment) side very difficult to manage.
(I’m not taking about artist names with accents and umlauts - systems should be able to handle that in 2024 - but I see a lot of “artist” names in Spotify with underscores and tildes and ‘ticks’ at the start of the name, and that’s likely going to cause some problems, especially in Excel…)
There’s a lot of excellent music in here.