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The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. Most often on Last.fm, compilation album tracks appear under the name of Various Artists erroneously because the individual artist is not listed in the album's ID3 information.
Compilation albums, for example.

Sometimes, single releases may be credited to Various Artists when their profits are going to charity and, usually in high-profile cases, are sometimes known by a group name. Examples include Band Aid with their releases of Do They Know It's Christmas? and USA for Africa with We Are The World.

Various Artists is also an actual performance name for Torsten Pröfrock, who runs the German DIN label. Torsten performs also as Dynamo, Erosion, Resilent, Traktor besides some others. He's a good friend of Robert Henke and since the Fall of 2004, he is a member of Monolake.

Various Artists was also a short-lived Bristol punk band formed by brothers Jonjo and Robin Key (originally from Birmingham). Other members were also simultaneously in Art Objects who went on to become The Blue Aeroplanes, the latter the Key brothers also co-wrote some songs and were involved in. When Various Artists imploded, the Key brothers went on to form Either / Or.

Various Artists also appear on tracks from musical theater soundtracks, due to the nature of having many cast members on one song, as well as an ensemble in some cases.

Sorry Not Sorry
Various Artists Lyrics

The devil may smile with an angels face
A cat may be stolen of its grace
They say it's just a matter of time and place
A matter of time and place

A man may be less than an animal
The antichrist write up the honor roll
The tightrope walker take the final fall
(at his house, in the bathroom, on a holiday, and that's in the news)

Oh, the things you see
Makes ignorance bliss for you and me, yeah,
When arrogance does publicity,
Smiling happily

It's a merry go round and around and around
A merry go round and around
Merry go round and around and around
It's a merry go round, oh

The begging boy becomes the begging man
The zealot never saves the sacrificial lamb
And a child want's to know if the Candyman can
The Candyman can, the Candyman can

Everybody want's the fancy car
And we've all been told not to run too far
But everybody wants to be a rock'n'roll star
Rock'n'roll star

Oh, the things you see
Makes arrogance seem the way to be, yeah,
When ignorance spreads conformity,
Smiling happily

It's a merry go round and around and around
A merry go round and around and around
Merry go round and around and around
It's a merry go round

(It's a merry go round, round, round...)
(It's a merry go round and around and around)
(It's a merry go round)

It's a merry go round and around and around
A merry go round and around and around
A merry go round and around and around
A merry go round

Merry go round and around and around
A merry go round, around, around
A merry go round and around and around
A merry go round

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