If you just add artwork for album info, designer doesn’t get merits on his profile page.

It should be like if you add credits on album page, it appears on designer profile page @streetlights

Should we rename “Written By” and “Produced By” fields to “Writers” and “Producers” respectively after the update?

Should add a fact that we use the singular form, since the additional roles section prepare both

Does “include all writers in the “Written By” section.” mean that everyone that I put into “Composer” and/or “Lyricist” should also be added to “Written by”?

@streetlights Should we also create additionally “Composer” and “Lyricist” if the credits lists both but both are the same artists?

@SabrinaGarcia436 When adding a new song, just type the name of the new artist, transcribe the song and you’re good to go. If you want to add a writer who is not yet in the system, just type the name and press “Create New … ”. You do need 300IQ to do this though

I’m not sure how to add an artist who is not already in the genius lyric system

What would constitute a non-primary writing credit?

@saizai I agree, those tags would be useful. It would make it less confusing when there are multiple versions of a song.

Also, for songs that have a long title I’ve found that they can all look really similar since the (romanised) is right at the end of it all. Any suggestions for that?

I think that marking the relationship in Q&A is… pretty bad: not part of the metadata, not readily available on mobile, not stable if the link changes, and not accessible to new contributors.

So instead, I’ve used the “interpolates” song-relationship meta tag. This makes them actually linked.

I suggest
1. add “translation of” and “Romanization of” song-to-song relationship categories, and
2. add a “language” basic meta tag to songs, so the original is marked as whatever it is, the translation is marked as the destination language, and the Romanization as the pseudo-language “Romanization”.

The language tag should allow multiple, since many songs are multilingual. E.g. Hamilton Mixtape — Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) has sections in English, Spanish, and code-switching English/Spanish. Lots of Japanese pop has portions in English. Etc.

Should we use phonetic or orthographic Romanization?

I think that phonetic is more important, since the original text is already available, and is often ambiguous.

For example, I just [made one from Russian] (

Genius Romanizations - Машина Времени - Костёр (Mashina Vremeni - Kostyor / Time Machine - Bonfire) (Romanization) — Genius

Машина Времени - Костёр (Mashina Vremeni - Kostyor / Time Machine - Bonfire) (Romanization) Lyrics: [Transcriber's notes: / I've romanized this / 1. by sound, not writing; / 2. to be most easily pronounceable by native English speakers; and / 3. using a Moscow accent, which is

There’s a standard transliteration of Russian, which can be reversed to get the original. However, it marks things that aren’t relevant to pronunciation (like ь → ‘) and likely to confuse someone using it as a pronunciation guide; fails to mark things that are (like accent, which in Russian is unmarked, unpredictable, and phonological — putting the accent on the wrong syllable will often be a different word entirely); and has many ambiguous letters (eg г might be pronounced g, or h; е might be e or yo; в might be v or f); etc. Plus there are some significant changes depending on accent (I used mine, which is also the singers’, and eg often converts o → a).

I went with the phonological version, since that’s where I (as a native speaker) can provide info that a computer Romanization can’t.

But it’s not clear, and there should probably be a standard for each language of what rules to follow.

@Obwama A lot of the most popular romanization pages are East Asian romanized – if that’s the case for you, here’s page with one artist, and this may be your strongest suit for multiple artists/a band!

@streetlights Should we group Genius Latin Transliterations with this annotation?

@streetlights might be worth adding if the song has something in parenthesis, the romanized part should go in large brackets

May we start tagging which language is getting romanized?
(Japanese song; “ローマ字変換(Japanese Romanization)” or “Romaji Henkan”)

After the ambient sample from Kareem Lotfy’s “Fr3sh” was removed due to clearance issues, the line was removed from the clean version as well.