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All titles should be in standard mixed case, where the first letter of each word is capitalized and followed by lowercase letters as noted below:

1. Always capitalize the first and last word of a title, even if it would otherwise be lowercase:
   • “You Better Move On”
   • “Be Like That”
   • “Here Without You”
   • “And You and I”
2. Capitalize all nouns (a person, place or thing, e.g. man, park, dog, etc.), pronouns (a substitute for a noun, e.g. he, she, it, ours, its, theirs, etc.), verbs (conveys action, bring, read, walk, run, learn, etc. or a state of being, e.g. exist, stand, etc.), adverbs (any word that modifies any part of language other than a noun, e.g. quickly, well, sideways, often, again, etc.) and adjectives (words used to tell the qualities of a noun or pronoun, e.g. big, hot, quick, purple, etc.), examples:
   • “Love Is in the Air”
   • “I Am the Walrus”
   • “That Was Then, This Is Now”
3. Do not capitalize:
   • Articles (e.g. a, an, the, etc., unless part of an artist’s or group’s name):
     • “The Man Who Sold the World”
     • “In a Safe Place”
     • “The Best of The Temptations”
   • Coordinating conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or, etc.):
     • “Rattle and Hum”
     • “It’s Now or Never”
     • “Nothin’ but a Good Time”
   • Short (three letters or less) prepositions (e.g. as, at, by, for, in, of, on, to, etc.):
     • “Live at Woodstock”
     • “Face to Face”
     • “Death Cab for Cutie”
     • “Pretty in Pink”
     • Special Note: The word “versus” and its abbreviated forms “vs.” and “v.” are commonly left in lowercase, despite being a preposition of more than three characters:
     • “Spy vs. Spy”
     • “Birds v. Worms”
   • When used to form an infinitive, (basic verb form preceded by the particle, to.):
     • “Nowhere to Run”
     • “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb”
     • “Songs I Love to Sing”
     • “Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine”
4. If a title is broken up by major punctuation (colon, question mark, exclamation mark, em-dash, parentheses, or quotes), treat each distinct piece of the title as a whole, and always capitalize the first and last word of each division:
   • “Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding”
   • “In Time: The Best of R.E.M.”
   • “I’m Just a Singer (In a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band)”
5. In compounds formed by hyphens, capitalize each part except where the part would not be capitalized if it were a separate word:
   • The Go-Go’s
   • At the Drive-In
   • The Boy With the X-Ray Eyes
6. Use all caps for acronyms or abbreviations where common use is all caps:
   • R.E.M.
   • N.W.A.
   • R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.
7. Capitalize contractions and slang consistent with the rules above to the extent that such clearly apply. For example, do not capitalize o’ for “of,” or ‘n’ for “and,” etc:
   • Rock ‘n’ Roll
   • “Will o’ the Wisp”
   • Sweet Child o’ Mine”
8. Proper nouns should always be capitalized appropriately. This includes parts of band names separated by the word “and” (aka: &). As an example, where the two parts could stand alone, grammatically:
   • Nice Cave and The Bad Seeds
   • Elvis Costello and The Attractions
   • Huey Lewis and The News
   • Exceptions: In cases where an artist uses a nonstandard capitalization with an artistic intent, the original capitalization used by the artist should be preserved:
     • k. d. lang
     • a-ha
     • Yellow mY skYcaptain (debut solo album by A Perfect Circle’s strings and bass player, Paz Lenchantin, released in 2000).
     • “tourette’s” (track 11 on the the album In Utero, the third and final studio album by the American grunge band Nirvana, released in 1993).