Title Formatting

1. Release and track titles must accurately match the title shown on the artwork. Do not use abbreviations.

2. Do not use generic titles unless they are the original titles of the work. Names such as "Track 01" and "Track 02" are not accepted by default. The same applies to generic release titles such as "Album," "EP," or "Single."

Do not add terms such as "Exclusive" or "Limited Edition." Titles must not refer to content or formats that are not included in the release, such as physical edition, digital edition, digital only, digital download, booklet, European edition, or US edition.

3. Do not add promotional copy, background information, or other details unless they are necessary to identify the content. Terms such as "Latest Single," "2018 Debut Single," or "Specially Presented" are not accepted.

4. Some DSPs automatically censor explicit words, for example as "f**k" or "s**t." Do not insert asterisks into the submitted title.

5. Do not include a side-by-side English translation in a Korean, Chinese, or Japanese title. For example, "이카루스" is acceptable, but "Rise이카루스" is not. Established artist names that naturally combine languages may be accepted.

To display "Run" in English-language territories and "跑" in Chinese-language territories, enter "跑" as the primary title and add "Run" as English localized metadata.

On DSPs other than Apple Music/iTunes, selecting a localization may display the title as Primary Title (Localized Title) (Version). Without a selected localization, all territories display the title and version in the primary metadata language.

Example: primary title "大雨" and version "纯音乐版"; English localization "Rain - Instrumental"; Japanese localization "大きな雨 - インストゥルメンタル." Apple Music/iTunes displays the applicable localization by territory. Other DSPs may display "大雨 (Rain) (纯音乐版)" when the English localization is selected.

6. A title that combines Chinese and English without presenting a direct translation may be accepted, for example "最最重要 (I Remember You)."

7. English titles must not use all uppercase, all lowercase, or arbitrary capitalization.

English title case

Use lowercase for the following words unless an exception below applies:

a, an, and, as, but, for, from, nor, of, or, so, the, to, and yet

Prepositions of four letters or fewer, including at, by, for, from, in, into, of, off, on, onto, out, over, to, up, and with. Capitalize them when they form part of a phrasal verb or function as another part of speech.

Examples:

In the Still of the Night

(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman

To Be, or Not to Be

The One and Only

God Willing & the Creek Don't Rise

Some Kind of Trouble

Love: And a Million Other Things

Journey: Greatest Hits

I Need a Doctor

Just the Way You Are

Waiting for the End

The Ballad of Mona Lisa

Lost in a Pair of Eyes

I Got The - Single

The Love I'm Searching For

Exceptions

Always capitalize the first and last words of a title and the first and last words inside parentheses.

Examples:

To Be, or Not to Be

What They're Looking For

War (What Is It Good For?)

(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman

Apply these rules to intentionally stylized or misspelled words as well:

"In da House"

"Kill 'Em n' Grill 'Em"

"It's fo' Realz"

Always capitalize: Are, If, Is, It, Than, That, and This.