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Linking to an artist page on allmusic.com using just the artist name

I am writing from interpunk.com.

Is there a way to link to the primary artist page on allmusic.com with a link that involves just the artist name?

For example, let's say I want to link to the Teenage Bottlerocket page. It would be great if I could use this link [with spaces in the artist name replaced with dashes '-']:

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/teenage-bottlerocket

…but instead of displaying an error page like it does currently, it would be ideal if it would automatically correct the URL of the actual Teenage Bottlerocket page on allmusic.com, which is:

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/teenage-bottlerocket-mn0000666623

Thank you in advanced for creating this functionality if you are able to do it.

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Hi Bob.

We are not able to to do that, unfortunately.
The ID at the end is where the detail of the artist is actually linked.

It would be nice to be able to use just the text of the artist, but since we have 38 different artists named John Williams, we need to have a differentiating element, and that element is the ID you see in the URL.

If you wanted to link to us, you could do something like appending the name of the artist to our search results on your page code like: https://www.allmusic.com/search/artists/{artist name} which would bring you to this page: https://www.allmusic.com/search/artists/teenage+bottlerocket

Your users could see the info on AllMusic by selecting the best result there, but there isn't a way to bring them straight to the page.

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