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New Primary Artist Functionality

I noticed today that the functionality for primary artists now works differently where the artist on the album page will be a collection of links to the designated primary artists instead of the band it was added under. This creates issues for the following cases

  1. albums where only some of the participants have been designated as primary artists for whatever reason making it look like the artist is incomplete (ex. https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/438746-peter-brotzmann-keiji-haino--evolving-blush-or-driving-original-sin.php)
  2. albums that were added under one artist but have another primary artist as well. (ex. https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/290070-jimmy-smith-prayer-meetin.php)

I may get used to this change over time. Plus my experience isn’t going to be like that of a typical user who doesn’t engage with as many weird cases. But my gut reaction to the change is not loving it.

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