You'd think they were identified by some kind of code or key on the back end. But noooo, oftentimes I will click on an artist's name to see their other releases and find that some other completely different artist with the same name is mixed in there. Like just now I clicked through to the page for Reggae singer John McClean to find it all mixed up with a jazz guitarist of the same name (who as it happens is quite good )
 
Come on Spotify, that's as lame as it gets!

iTunes has the same problem. My album shows up among another Matt Swift's projects.
It can't be tough to separate.

Slugbaby
iTunes has the same problem. My album shows up among another Matt Swift's projects.
It can't be tough to separate.

Ah, iTunes... I also love the way it splits albums for no reason. And the way it merged both eponymous Killing Joke albums.

same here - we just released a new album under "Scandalous Grace" band name and there was another band who released an album in 2012 with the same name, iTunes and Spotify and a lot of others think we're the same band. :(

Hi,
 
I do wish that some of these services would, at the very least, clean up their database searches and details, because they are using generic crap that does not know how to search and find the proper and correct detail you are looking for ... it exchanges your detail, for their own detail, instead, and you get their favored commercial answers, instead of the ones that you really should have ... tells you that the code is not even smart, otherwise you would put the two together ... !!!!
 
Similar ... in WoW, along the listings for "Pets" for Pet Battles, there are about 700+ for me, and you can not search for "rat", or "rabbit" ... the database gives you anything, but, including results that do not even have the letters "rat" in them! There you go ... high school code, and cheap database work!
 
Gonna have the same similar issues on Spotify and YT and everywhere else, where the design and database are as cheap as possible, and there is no artistry in their searches ... just generic crap!

I put my name in there searching for my cd and i come up about 4th after some names that aren't even close to mine.

The other Matt Swift on iTunes and Spotify is from a village 10 minutes from where I was born in the UK, and we have no relation whatsoever, and he actually references local things.  My own family has bought his stuff thinking it was mine, then wondering why I sounded so different.

Slugbaby
The other Matt Swift on iTunes and Spotify is from a village 10 minutes from where I was born in the UK, and we have no relation whatsoever, and he actually references local things.  My own family has bought his stuff thinking it was mine, then wondering why I sounded so different.

This is why you need to use a unique band name.  Some of the better password generators could help you create one that probably isn't already there. 
 
Check out 88zg\NP(Wzuzp4s5c3j[1?nd's new hit single! 

i transferred 2 rehearsal files(set edited 19.12.16 and 20.12.16 respectively). on to the ipod to listen and they came up labelled as "DJ Doboy-Retro Mix" and "Jeff Foxworthy-Best Of".
guess that`s the difference between a chip and a person-a person can smell a rat but ITunes cant......
cheers