A map of where the music comes from.

Most music discovery starts from a genre or an algorithm. ArtistInline starts from a place. Every artist in the directory is plotted by the city their journey began in, so the catalogue reads as a world rather than a chart.

From there the path is simple: find an artist, read their story, and follow the channels they already run. The map is the discovery layer and the profile is the identity layer — being genuinely useful at those two is what this release is for.

The catalogue currently holds 194 artists across 69 countries and 142 cities. Names, origin cities, genres and official channels are compiled from publicly available information. Biographies are short summaries written for the directory — they are not authorised statements from artists or their teams.

Nothing private is stored. No personal phone numbers, private email addresses or home addresses appear anywhere in the dataset, and none would be added.

Where an artist’s exact origin is not well documented, the map says the marker is approximate rather than guessing precisely. Where an artist’s birthplace and the scene they came out of are different places — which is common — the profile says so instead of quietly collapsing the two.

No artist in the directory has any relationship with ArtistInline. Every profile is compiled from public information and points to the channels the artist runs themselves — nothing here implies an endorsement, an affiliation, or that an artist is available for anything.

Any artist or authorised representative can have a profile corrected or removed on request, without needing to explain why.

Artist photographs come from Wikimedia Commons, which hosts only freely-licensed media, and each is credited to its photographer wherever it appears. That choice rules out press and promotional photos, which would need licences this project does not hold. Around a fifth of the roster has no usable Commons image and falls back to a generated portrait plate instead — and any image that could not be attributed was dropped rather than shown uncredited.

The files are copied into this site rather than loaded from Wikimedia on every visit. That keeps the load off their servers, as their guidance asks, and means an upstream deletion cannot silently blank out a profile.

Release 1.0.0 is deliberately a directory and nothing more: artists, the cities they came from, their channels and their best-known songs, built to be found. Getting that genuinely right — and genuinely findable — is the whole scope of this release.

The next phases add the half of the product this one leaves out: artists claiming and running their own profiles, and 1:1 sessions booked through the site. None of it is announced on these pages yet, because none of it works yet.