# Bulk edit first artist as album artist

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-edit-first-artist-as-album-artist/60982>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 15, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-edit-first-artist-as-album-artist/60982 "2023-05-15T15:27:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pasi](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Pasi](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Pasi)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-edit-first-artist-as-album-artist/60982/1 "2023-05-15T15:27:19Z")

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Hi.  
My current metadata looks as follows:  
 ![Music2](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8145f3c29fc1f356bd2c2a13e8765a9056d66399.png)

Some of the albums I have do not have the ALBUMARTIST, but rather have several ARTISTS tags. Usually the album artist is the first artist as ARTISTS. How can bulk edit and copy/add the first artist additionally as ALBUMARTIST? In this case it would be Shakira, not Shakira feat. Rihanna and not Rihanna. I would also need to skip the albums that already have ALBUMARTIST tag, so that there would not be duplicate ALBUMARTIST tags. If anyone have any suggestions or know-how it would be most appreciated 🙂

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-edit-first-artist-as-album-artist/60982/2 "2023-05-15T16:07:08Z")

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Try an action of the type "Format value" for ALBUMARTIST  
Format string: `$if2(%albumartist%,$meta(artists,0))`

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/bulk-edit-first-artist-as-album-artist/60982/3 "2023-06-14T16:07:16Z")

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