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https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release_Group/Type#Soundtrack asks that a release group be "a musical score". STYLE-586 goes into the nitty-gritty of groupings of recordings, but this ticket is about explicitly saying that pop singles / theme song singles aren't Soundtrack release group types.
For example, the theme song of the Titanic movie is not a soundtrack because it is not a musical score.
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[STYLE-1578] Explicitly exclude pop theme songs from the Soundtrack release group type
> That mostly depends on how it's presented. Is it presented as "the film song", with all the cover art being film-related, etc? I'd probably still use soundtrack.
This doesn't make sense because a release group contains multiple releases. It's common for exactly one release in the group to have a front cover relating to where 16% of the tracks is used. That one release would make up 20% of the release group, whereas the remaining 80% of releases in the release group do not "present" "the film".
That mostly depends on how it's presented. Is it presented as "the film song", with all the cover art being film-related, etc? I'd probably still use soundtrack. Is it a pop song that is presented as a pop song without making the film connection explicit, and it just happened to be used in a film? Then it doesn't seem sensible to use soundtrack.
I mean, a fair amount of soundtrack albums are "music from and inspired by" or whatever, where some songs are also not really part of the soundtrack.
A 6-track maxi single where,
- one track is an extended / different version of a song where an edited version was used in a movie/TV show,
- one track is a karaoke version of that song, and
- the other 4 tracks have nothing to do with a movie/TV show,
is by any practical standard a "RG (that) is not a soundtrack to anything nor intended as such" when only 16% of the release could be argued to be related to a "soundtrack" while 0% of the release is a musical score.
That comment was that an album of recordings of music originally made for films is not a soundtrack. I'm not sure how that's connected with pop theme songs as a whole?
If https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-is-a-soundtrack/167398/15 is still accurate, then I don't know why we wouldn't want to codify this for users who aren't going to find a 7-year-old post.
How common is it that made-for-film singles get reissued a lot, and how often does that happen without referencing the film in any way? Most issues of https://www.discogs.com/master/134824-Celine-Dion-My-Heart-Will-Go-On-Love-Theme-From-Titanic for example seem to have a clear reference to Titanic. I haven't seen a lot of those though, so maybe I'm missing a fair amount of cases where this would be problematic. "case per case basis" still seems the most sensible approach for this though.