[mb-users] release titles like "The Best of ..." and "The Essential ..."

[Fred Marchee]

As I understand well you put the artist in the releasetitle when the 
artist is part of the sentence so: "The Very Best of Elvis Costello & 
the Attractions is okay", just as "The Essential Leonard Cohen" is.

But when you enter a release title like "Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits" 
the guys will kill you ;-)

Fred(576)

Eric Cooper wrote:
> I recently noticed that this CD:
>      http://musicbrainz.org/release/dd2f9bcd-4639-4921-867d-de4c49dba29c.html
> is in the database with release title "The Very Best Of...",
> presumably because those words are printed in one color on the CD,
> followed immediately by the artist (Elvis Costello & The Attractions)
> in another color.
>
> But this CD:
>     http://musicbrainz.org/release/ffcf8508-1589-4f4f-ad6e-a55d530730be.html
> has the same kind of packaging ("The Essential" in one color, followed
> by "Leonard Cohen").  Why isn't it titled "The Essential..."?
> Or why isn't the Elvis Costello CD titled without the ellipsis?
>
> Is there a style guideline about this? Thanks.
>
>