HELP! iTunes reclassified my band's genre and now I don't show up in search results
I'm sorry if this isn't the right place to post. My problem is fairly unique and I'm just not sure how to go about it. Please point me in the right direction if I've made a mistake.
Okay, so here's the deal: I'm a musician who releases piano tributes to popular music under the name Molotov Cocktail Piano. My record label, CC Entertainment, has always set my genre category as "Rock." I'm not sure exactly why, but this has been the case since I began recording and releasing last June. Some time within the last week or so, Molotov Cocktail Piano's genre has been reclassified to Pop>Tribute along with many other (but, for some reason, not all) tribute acts, which in and of itself is no big deal to me but now MCP doesn't show up in the search results. My label thought at first that perhaps iTunes was blacklisting the word "tribute" as most of my album's titles use the word. However, I noticed that some other groups' albums that have the word "tribute" in their title still show up. After a closer inspection, I came to the conclusion that any tribute group or artist that has been reclassified to Pop>Tribute doesn't show up and any tribute group or artist whose genre remains unchanged still DOES show up. Take, for example, MCP's "Tribute to Taylor Swift: 1989." Before this switch, anyone choosing to search for "Taylor Swift" could scroll through her official releases and the many tribute albums dedicated to her. My tribute had been selling reasonably well and was listed near the top of the list after her official releases. Now after the reclassification, my album doesn't show up at ALL for the "Taylor Swift" search term, whereas some others still do. I feel certain that this is an unintentional mistake that somehow didn't get addressed when iTunes created the new Pop>Tribute genre and that it just needs to be brought to the attention of the right person to make what would seem to be an easy fix. In the mean time, however, I am losing sales with every passing day and iTunes is losing their percentage on those sales. The timing is just terrible, with the Christmas season upon us. Could someone PLEASE help?
Sincerely,
Rob Weber
when you play the CD in your laptop on your home screen a Cd should pop up under the name of the album. Than when you open itunes it will probly say something like "let this CD download" or something like that. If it doesn't than automaticlly while the CD is importing to your itunes a page will pop up with a progess of the CD download.
Hope that helped.
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