Data coverage & provenance
The roster is curated in three tiers from named public lists, enriched from open databases, and re-checked for popularity every month. Nothing is published without a source, and every artist page lists its own provenance block.
- Published artists
- 23,672
- Release groups
- 504,590
- Timeline events
- 253,815
- Biography words
- 35,767,624
Coverage by tier
| Tier | Artists | Full biography | Timeline | Discography | Streaming metric | Avg. quality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 819 | 687 (83.9%) | 819 | 816 | 818 | 89.6 |
| Tier 2 | 2,690 | 2,124 (79.0%) | 2,687 | 2,407 | 256 | 78.3 |
| Tier 3 | 49,906 | 12,399 (24.8%) | 28,201 | 10,708 | 757 | 34 |
Timeline events by type
| Event type | Count |
|---|---|
| album | 153,331 |
| born | 24,632 |
| member_join | 19,918 |
| member_leave | 14,019 |
| award | 13,871 |
| debut | 13,856 |
| died | 8,683 |
| formed | 5,081 |
| disbanded | 361 |
| tour | 63 |
Sources & licences
| Source | Licence | Records |
|---|---|---|
| wikidata | CC0 | 53,384 |
| musicbrainz | CC0 | 31,928 |
| wikipedia | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 31,060 |
| wikipedia-en | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 31,015 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Public domain | 4,111 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 3,691 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 3,440 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 | 2,332 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 3.0 | 2,158 |
| kworb.net | no licence published | 1,831 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 | 1,555 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 4.0 | 728 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC0 | 464 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 157 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 | 145 |
| musicbrainz-search | CC0 | 133 |
| wikipedia-es | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 123 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Attribution | 118 |
| wikipedia-fr | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 114 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 nl | 92 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 de | 88 |
| wikipedia-de | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 55 |
| wikipedia-ru | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 42 |
| wikipedia-sv | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 38 |
| wikipedia-it | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 29 |
| Wikimedia Commons | FAL | 28 |
| wikipedia-ko | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 24 |
| wikipedia-pt | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 24 |
| Wikimedia Commons | GFDL | 23 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 kr | 21 |
| Wikimedia Commons | GODL-India | 20 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 3.0 br | 19 |
| Wikimedia Commons | No restrictions | 17 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Copyrighted free use | 16 |
| wikipedia-ja | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 16 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 1.0 | 14 |
| wikipedia-hu | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 14 |
| wikipedia-pl | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 12 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 at | 11 |
| Wikimedia Commons | GFDL 1.2 | 11 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 1.0 | 10 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 fr | 10 |
| wikipedia-fi | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 9 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 de | 8 |
| wikipedia-el | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 7 |
| wikipedia-id | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 7 |
| wikipedia-tr | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 6 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 3.0 us | 5 |
| wikipedia-ar | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 5 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 dk | 4 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Nagi BY SA | 4 |
| Wikimedia Commons | PDM-owner | 4 |
| Wikimedia Commons | GPL | 3 |
| wikipedia-da | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 3 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 2 | |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 pl | 2 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 3.0 de | 2 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 us | 2 |
| wikipedia-he | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 2 |
| wikipedia-nl | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 2 |
| wikipedia-zh | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 2 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.0 de | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.1 jp | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 ar | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 nl | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 se | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 2.5 za | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY 3.0 fr | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 tw | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.0 uk | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.1 es | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.5 es | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.5 mx | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 2.5 pl | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 cz | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 ph | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 pl | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC BY-SA 3.0 rs | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | CC SA 1.0 | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | LGPL | 1 |
| Wikimedia Commons | OGL 3 | 1 |
| wikipedia-fa | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 1 |
| wikipedia-th | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 1 |
Album cover art: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org), shown for identification only; the artwork remains © its respective rights holders.
Artist portraits: Wikimedia Commons, licensed per file — mostly CC BY or CC BY-SA, which make crediting the photographer a condition of use. Each portrait is credited with its author and licence and links to its Commons file page; the full list is onimage credits. A portrait whose credit cannot be resolved is not displayed at all.
Popularity signals: kworb.net publishes no licence of its own (no terms, no copyright notice), so the monthly-listener figures are recorded as claims by that source, named as such in each artist's Sources block rather than presented as this site's own measurement.
Genres: artist↔genre associations come from Wikidata P136, which is CC0. MusicBrainz also publishes genre tags, but those are supplementary data under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, and the non-commercial condition in that licence would apply to every page that shows a genre — so they are not used. Genre URLs that carried a MusicBrainz name (/genres/pop) redirect to the canonical Wikidata genre (/genres/pop-music).
Largest genres
- pop music2,519
- hip-hop2,039
- opera1,396
- country music1,385
- rock music1,334
- jazz952
- classical music831
- alternative rock777
- K-pop756
- soul656
- J-pop630
- folk music624
- contemporary R&B614
- rhythm and blues597
- pop rock535
Largest countries
- United States7,625
- United Kingdom2,282
- France1,354
- Canada1,202
- Japan1,189
- South Korea771
- Germany686
- Sweden560
- Brazil359
- India340
- Norway314
- Turkey314
- Ireland300
- Jamaica267
- Australia258
How this database is built
- Roster. 85 curated list pages (best-selling, Streaming top charts, Hall of Fame, Grammy, and per-genre/per-country rosters) propose candidates.
- Identity. Each name is resolved to a Wikidata entity and kept only when it is a singer, band or composer — releases, songs, labels and places are rejected.
- Evidence tiering. Tier 1 = current streaming demand; tier 2 = legacy canon; tier 3 = vertical and regional scenes.
- Enrichment. MusicBrainz supplies aliases, members and the release-group discography (genres come from Wikidata); Wikipedia supplies the long-form biography (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Timeline. Events are derived only from stored facts — no date is ever inferred from prose.
- Publication gate. Tier-3 pages appear only when they reach a quality threshold and carry real content; identity-only stubs stay out of the index and sitemap.
Last database write: 10 October 2026.
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SingerBio, "Artist biography database", https://singers.beyouth.me/data. 23,672 published artists, 504,590 release groups, 253,815 timeline events, 35,767,624 words of biography. Database last written 10 October 2026. Sources and licences as listed on this page.
Licence lines
- wikidata: CC0 (53,384 records)
- musicbrainz: CC0 (31,928 records)
- wikipedia: CC BY-SA 4.0 (31,060 records)
- wikipedia-en: CC BY-SA 4.0 (31,015 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: Public domain (4,111 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 4.0 (3,691 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 3.0 (3,440 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.0 (2,332 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 3.0 (2,158 records)
- kworb.net: no licence published (1,831 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.0 (1,555 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 4.0 (728 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC0 (464 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.5 (157 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.5 (145 records)
- musicbrainz-search: CC0 (133 records)
- wikipedia-es: CC BY-SA 4.0 (123 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: Attribution (118 records)
- wikipedia-fr: CC BY-SA 4.0 (114 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 3.0 nl (92 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 3.0 de (88 records)
- wikipedia-de: CC BY-SA 4.0 (55 records)
- wikipedia-ru: CC BY-SA 4.0 (42 records)
- wikipedia-sv: CC BY-SA 4.0 (38 records)
- wikipedia-it: CC BY-SA 4.0 (29 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: FAL (28 records)
- wikipedia-ko: CC BY-SA 4.0 (24 records)
- wikipedia-pt: CC BY-SA 4.0 (24 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: GFDL (23 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.0 kr (21 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: GODL-India (20 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 3.0 br (19 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: No restrictions (17 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: Copyrighted free use (16 records)
- wikipedia-ja: CC BY-SA 4.0 (16 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 1.0 (14 records)
- wikipedia-hu: CC BY-SA 4.0 (14 records)
- wikipedia-pl: CC BY-SA 4.0 (12 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 3.0 at (11 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: GFDL 1.2 (11 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 1.0 (10 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.0 fr (10 records)
- wikipedia-fi: CC BY-SA 4.0 (9 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.0 de (8 records)
- wikipedia-el: CC BY-SA 4.0 (7 records)
- wikipedia-id: CC BY-SA 4.0 (7 records)
- wikipedia-tr: CC BY-SA 4.0 (6 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 3.0 us (5 records)
- wikipedia-ar: CC BY-SA 4.0 (5 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.5 dk (4 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: Nagi BY SA (4 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: PDM-owner (4 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: GPL (3 records)
- wikipedia-da: CC BY-SA 4.0 (3 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: (2 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.5 pl (2 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 3.0 de (2 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 3.0 us (2 records)
- wikipedia-he: CC BY-SA 4.0 (2 records)
- wikipedia-nl: CC BY-SA 4.0 (2 records)
- wikipedia-zh: CC BY-SA 4.0 (2 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.0 de (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.1 jp (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.5 ar (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.5 nl (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.5 se (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 2.5 za (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY 3.0 fr (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.0 tw (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.0 uk (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.1 es (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.5 es (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.5 mx (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 2.5 pl (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 3.0 cz (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 3.0 ph (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 3.0 pl (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC BY-SA 3.0 rs (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: CC SA 1.0 (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: LGPL (1 records)
- Wikimedia Commons: OGL 3 (1 records)
- wikipedia-fa: CC BY-SA 4.0 (1 records)
- wikipedia-th: CC BY-SA 4.0 (1 records)