music/lookup

Look up a music entity by its MusicBrainz ID, optionally including related data.

0.1 credits / call ($0.0001)

charged on success

What it does

Fetches a single music entity by its MBID and returns its full record, optionally expanded with related sub-entities and relationships (e.g. an artist's releases and recordings).

Primary use cases

Retrieving an artist's discography or an album's tracklist.
Resolving relationships between artists, works, and recordings.

Good to know

Use inc to request related data, joined with "+" (e.g. "recordings+releases+release-groups"). The available inc values depend on the entity type. Core data is CC0 (no attribution required).

Parameters

incstringoptional

"+"-joined related data to include (e.g. "recordings+releases"). Valid values depend on entity type.

mbidstringrequired

MusicBrainz ID (UUID) of the entity.

entitystringrequired

Music entity type matching the MBID.