Studio Albums API

Use this API for broad music-reference lookup data around studio albums and recording metadata. It exposes normalized JSON endpoints with practical filters, source metadata, and lightweight reference tables so developers can add lookup and discovery features without maintaining their own scraper or curation pipeline.

Entertainment live albumsmusicdiscographygenresrecord-labelswikipedia

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Use Cases

seed music catalog facets
tag albums by label, genre, and producer
build release-year and artist filters

Access

These endpoints are served through RapidAPI. The examples below are documentation examples, not direct browser links, because requests require RapidAPI authentication headers.

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Endpoints

GET/api/studioalbums/albums

List albums or filter by title, artist, label, genre, source category, year range, or free text.

Query parameters: title, artist, label, genre, source_category, year, year_from, year_to, q, limit

/api/studioalbums/albums?q=example&limit=10

GET/api/studioalbums/artists

List parsed album artists.

/api/studioalbums/artists

GET/api/studioalbums/genres

List parsed album genres.

/api/studioalbums/genres

GET/api/studioalbums/labels

List parsed record labels.

/api/studioalbums/labels

GET/api/studioalbums/years

List parsed release years.

/api/studioalbums/years

GET/api/studioalbums/sources

List Wikipedia categories used for collection.

/api/studioalbums/sources

Pricing

Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for testing the API in prototypes.
Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.

Data Notes

Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 14d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.

Primary table: studio_albums