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title: "You don't know nann — Kapell"
description: "Improved artist names for album matches."
canonical: "https://kapell.fm/blog/platform-name-match/"
published: "2026-07-08"
---

Platform July 8, 2026

# You don't know nann

That dress fresher than me, Trick Daddy

BY THE NUMBERS PLATFORM · LIVE

API SURFACE enrichment

ALBUM MATCH ~55,000

TRACK MATCH ~500,000

EFFECTIVE 2026-07-09

It’s going to get old that I repeatedly say Kapell’s API [pulls together many sources](https://kapell.fm/docs/how-enrichment-works/), but it will continue to be true. In today’s news I was following up on the API’s failure to recognize [Trick Daddy’s 5th most popular album](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Www.thug.com) and found a peculiar problem: Apple’s data for *[www.thug.com](http://www.thug.com)* contained a denormalized artist name of *トリック・ダディ* which is evidently [katakana for Trick Daddy](https://translate.google.com/?sl=ja&tl=en&text=%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3&op=translate)?

Regardless, this caused issue in matching and further investigation yielded this errant denormizalition causes ~5.5% (3,422,292) of Apple’s albums to “mis-flatten” in this way, which affects our internal mapping of Apple to MusicBrainz to fail for some of that subset. Adding code for this yielded ~55,000 positive album matches and ~500,000 tracks rescued as a result.

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