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Don’t go with !!!

You’ll never find them on YouTube or google unless you search for their informal name: chk chk chk

However, they benefitted greatly in the early ‘00s. If you had them in your Apple Music library, iTunes always put them at the top of your alphabetical music library, keeping them top of mind, ! comes before A. There might have a similar iTunes Store benefit too.

Terrible Google SEO, great accidental Apple SEO.

I always though the best name for a band with only one album would be 'Various Artists' with 'Greatest Hits' for the album name.

They probably exist, I just don't think I can ask a search engine to find them.

I've seen a band called Special Guests.

"The The" was a pretty notable band in the 80s/90s.

There used to be a local Sydney band called "Free Beer", so the posters for all their support slot gigs would say "$HeadlineAct with Free Beer".

https://www.discogs.com/artist/35584-Various-Artists-3

In 1997 Torsten Pröfrock released a highly sought-after dub techno album on the legendary Chain Reaction label under the name "Various Artists". It's a quintessential record in the Basic Channel genre. You can listen it here: https://youtu.be/3165Sf-q8dY

couldn't be any worse than the band names "A" and "My Computer" !

https://acommunication.co.uk

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Computer_(band)

Google have a hardcoded exception for the band "the the".

SiriusXM truncates a "The" prefix from artist names (so "The Cure" and "The Who" become "Cure" and "Who"). I always wondered how it would display The The. Would it be "The The" (special case), "The" (default removal of "The"), or an empty string "" (in the unlikely case the algorithm recursively removed "The" prefixes)? Eventually they played a The The song and the answer is "The The".

I always liked to imagine filing "The The" under "The, The".

Of course the right way of filing them is autobiographically... (I went to see the Infected tour with Louise, so they're filed under "L"...)

There’s a video on YouTube with three full-width explanation points as the title. I watched it once, and although it wasn’t particularly interesting, it bugs me that I cannot find it again.

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