RAM no longer listed by Paul McCartney?!

[dbone828]

I noticed that although RAM is an album credited to Paul & Linda McCartney, it is no longer listed in Paul McCartney's album listing, where his Wings albums are. Because of this, Paul's ranking on the all-time top artists has plummeted.

Is it possible to make Paul & Linda McCartney a child act of Paul McCartney, so that Ram can be included in his artist tally?

[albummaster]

Artists are currently only parent/child artists on BEA where the performers are the same. If an artist is part of a duo, trio, etc then there is no single parent and they are counted/listed as a separate entity. I think BEA probably needs to start awarding credit to all the individual performers in duo/trio acts (and especially where the individual performers are of more equal status), so it does open up a can of worms for borderline cases. That's not an excuse to do nothing, but just to say it's more complicated than it first looks. The album was re-credited here to Paul and Linda because somebody pointed out that it used to be listed incorrectly as only Paul.

[dbone828]

True, but Paul McCartney's Wings albums are included under his name, and Wings includes not only Linda McCartney, but Denny Laine, and sometimes a few others (depending on which album you look at).

[Borve Baunehoj]

What's really weird is that The Stooges is listed as a child act for Iggy Pop. I'll then suggest that Nirvana should be a child act for Foo Fighters. And that The Velvet Underground should be a child act for John Cale.

[albummaster]

agree, it's inconsistent and needs sorting out. I don't mind changing this album so it falls under Paul, but a problem with the current system is that if album is credited to Paul, Linda would get no credit even though she co-wrote six of the twelve songs (at least, according to the credits).

[dbone828]

[albummaster]

the current system is inconsistent, and need to think about what changes are needed to put things right.