Music-related topics see a fair amount of paid editing, as well as editing by fans. Non-neutral language and excessively long quotes are common problems for articles about this topic.
====AlbumsSongs and albums====
{{see also|WP:NALBUM|WP:NSONG}}
The bread and butter of reliable coverage for songs and albums are album reviews. When assessing notability, be careful to check that the reviews are not paid placements or self-published. The subject-specific notability guideguides for albumsthese subjects specifies that charting is a likely indicator of notability: in practice, unless there are several reasons to suspect that significant coverage does not exist of an album or song that has charted, an article about an album that has charted is extremely unlikely to be found not notable at AfD. Note that even RS sometimes run short pieces that are more of a promotional piece than a real review; such pieces should be assessed for their depth of coverage, and are marginally more acceptable for songs than for albums. You should also be mindful of [[WP:BIAS|systemic bias]] when evaluating music coverage.
AlbumsSongs that are not notable should be pointed to albums, and albums that are not notable should be converted to redirects pointing to either the recording artist, or if applicable, a discography page for the recording artist. Songs should only be pointed to the recording artist if they are mentioned in the article and no album article is available. If the conversion to redirect is contested, AfD is an appropriate forum to resolve the matter.
